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10:45 PM.Muttley's Estate manufactures and sells gourmet pet wine for anxious cats and dogs. There's lighter beverage Champawgne, and deeper blends like Purrno Noir. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.It's a combination of headlight bulbs changing, car heights rising, and automation technology taking away driver discretion. AA principal policy advisor Terry Collins joins Emile Donovan to explain. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Editor of Politik.co.nz Richard Harman joins Emile Donovan to talk about receiving leaks, how journalists can use them, and what leaks say about the government agencies they originate from. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.Australian violence expert and Principal Research Fellow at Griffith University in Queensland Dr Samara McPhedran joins Emile Donovan to examine whether banning a weapon works, or whether violent… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Ella Hope-Higginson is part of a new D&D podcast called The Fury of the Small which is launching this Friday on The Spinoff.  Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Dunedin academic Dr Duncan Connors is proposing a special parliamentary committee be established for the entire South Island, to redress the feeling that the South misses out when it comes to funding… Read more Audio

9:35 PM.To explain what money laundering is, how it's done and how it's detected, Wellington lawyer Marty Robinson of Robinson Legal joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Journalist Christian Smith joins Emile Donovan for news from the UK, including a visit to Canada for King Charles, and some thrilling cheese-rolling races in Gloucester. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Clinical psychologist Dougal Southerland sits down to talk to Emile to explain why people queue to disembark many minutes before actually disembarking. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.South African journalist, academic, fact-checker, and author of the 2022 book Farm killings in South Africa Nechama Brodie joins Nights to examine white genocide claims from US President Donald Trump.

10:30 PM.RNZ sports reporter Jamie Wall joins Emile in the studio to talk about the big sports stories from the weekend. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.In the Far North, 190 tonnes of plastic waste - an entire year's worth of recycling - may be about to be dumped into the landfill. Waste management specialist Timothy Brake joins Emile Donovan to… Read more Audio

9:35 PM.You step up to take your shot, hit the ball, or throw the dart - and suddenly, you can't go through with it. Dr Arne Nieuwenhuys explains this condition, also known as the yips. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Tonight, broadcaster and businessman Sir Ian Taylor sits down in the Auckland studio with Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.The University of Otago wants to knock down the 50-year-old, brutalist Archway Lecture Theatres. Christine McCarthy from the school of architecture at Te Herenga Waka joins Emile Donovan to explain… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Featuring American indie darlings Wednesday, Norwegian punk band Honningbarna, and multi-instrumentalist 3S-AMI-5A. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Former Olympian turned academic Dave Gerrard joins Emile Donovan to discuss a controversial new sporting event set to debut in Las Vegas next May. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin reviews Irish film Tarrac (2022), the second season of Star Wars spin-off Andor streaming on Disney+, and Lion (2016) airing free on TVNZ+. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Director of the Wairarapa Film Festival Jane Ross joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.The news is filled with chatter about language and gender these days - gender-neutral pronouns, sexist language, the C word in parliament - but what about the gender of language itself?  Associate… Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Infometrics chief executive Brad Olsen joins Todd Zaner to recap the big wins, big cuts, and big moments from finance minister Nicola Willis' second budget. Read more Audio

9:45 PM.Hip hop pioneer, turntablist, and Order of New Zealand Merit Phil Bell - aka DJ Sir-Vere - joins Emile Donovan to take listeners on a sonic journey to the Auckland of the eighties and nineties. Read more Audio

9:35 PM.When Craig Thorburn first walked into Kelly Tarlton's as a teenager, he knew it was for him. Forty years later, Craig is a global aquarium design consultant working across the globe and he joins Emile… Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Curator Social History at Auckland Museum Jane Groufsky joins Emile Donovan in Turtle Bay to paint a picture of Auckland's changing landscape from the 1980s to now. Read more Audio

9:00 PM.A special live edition of the famous Nights quiz. Three quizzees live from our studio audience at Kelly Tarlton's take to the airwaves to be grilled by Emile Donovan as he dons his quizmaster hat. Read more Audio