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Auckland's The Others Way festival spills out onto the street
10:45 PM.For the first time in the festival's 11-year history, Karangahape Road will close to cars to allow people and music to fill the street. Read more Audio
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Fazerdaze cleans up at 2025 Aotearoa Music Awards
10:30 PM.RNZ music journalist Tony Stamp beams in from the biggest night in New Zealand Music to share who's won big. Read more Audio
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Bipartisan support emerging for financing home solar
10:18 PM.The CEO of advocacy group Rewiring Aotearoa Mike Casey joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio
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Is churning butter worth it?
9:40 PM.Anna from recipe blog 'Just A Mum's Kitchen' joins Emile Donovan to weigh in on whether buying cream for butter is cheaper in the end, and whether any butter substitutes pass muster. Read more Audio
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Myth Takes: Greek islands
9:25 PM.Classics educator and enthusiast Ben Jackson joins Emile Donovan for a virtual holiday to some of ancient Greece's island city states: Delos, Rhodes, Lesbos and Samos. Read more Audio
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Timaru New Zealand's best tap water, officially
8:30 PM.Timaru District Council's Water Plant Manager John Clemens celebrates with Emile Donovan. Read more Audio
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New Zealand unlocks commercial catnip market
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
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Are headlights getting brighter?
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
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For the love of leaks
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
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Australia set to ban the sale of machetes, will it work?
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
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The welcoming world of Dungeons and Dragons
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
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Does the South Island deserve dedicated representation in Parliament?
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
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Shower Thoughts: How is money laundered?
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
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UK correspondent Christian Smith
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
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The psychology behind standing up when the plane lands
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
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Claims of 'white genocide' in South Africa
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.
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Sports with Jamie Wall
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
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Where does my recycling go?
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
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Dartitis: The inability to throw a dart
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
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Whakataukī of the Week with Sir Ian Taylor
9:25 PM.Tonight, broadcaster and businessman Sir Ian Taylor sits down in the Auckland studio with Emile Donovan. Read more Audio
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Brutalism: Yea or nay?
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
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
10:30 PM.Featuring American indie darlings Wednesday, Norwegian punk band Honningbarna, and multi-instrumentalist 3S-AMI-5A. Read more Audio
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Doping set to be encouraged at "Enhanced" Games
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
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
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
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This Weekend: 50 Hour Film Project lights up Wairarapa
8:30 PM.Director of the Wairarapa Film Festival Jane Ross joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio