RNZ: Nights

He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music.

Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan for some Friday night reviews.  

Mark Williams joins Emile Donovan to talk about The Logg Cabin.

Billie Rogers joins Emile Donovan.

University of Waikato Senior Lecturer of Ecology, Biodiversity and Animal Behaviour Dr Ang McGaughran joins Emile Donovan.

Mathias Clasen, associate professor and director of the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University in Denmark is a horror researcher., and he joins Emile Donovan.

Dev Singh from the University of Auckland's Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering school.joins Emile Donovan to explain.

Julia Jones is an independent advisor in ag industry and joins Emile Donovan.

Sam Elton-Walters from Giant Pumpkins NZ joins Emile Donovan.

Sam Sachdeva is the national affairs editor at Newsroom dot co dot nz and is on the ground in Korea.

Detective Inspector Chris Cahill served as president of the New Zealand Police Association for nine years, from 2016 to 2025.

Lloyd Smith has been competing in dog trials since the 1970s and joins Emile Donovan from his farm near Palmerston in Otago

We are joined by two experts who come down on different sides of the issue, clinical psychologist Dr Danielle Einstein and media lecturer Dr Alex Beattie.

Reuben Munn has been a pastor for twenty years and joins Emile Donovan to explain.

Jenny Dagg is a sociologist and researcher at Maynooth University in Ireland and wrote the cost-benefit analysis for the scheme. She joins Emile Donovan.

Christian Smith joins Emile Donovan to discuss news making headlines in Europe.

Economist Ed McKnight has crunched the numbers and built a calculator that can tell you.

Tax expert Terry Baucher joins Emile Donovan.

He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music

Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan with some viewing recommendations for your long weekend.

The author is historian, columnist, and former Invercargill city councillor Lloyd Esler, who joins Emile Donovan.

Lorenzo Antinori from Bar Leone in Hong Kong joins Emile Donovan.

Susan Mudie is the Rainbow's End CEO and she joins Emile Donovan.

Sir Nick Gibb oversaw a dramatic turnaround in England's school reading and maths performance during his tenure as schools minister through the rollback of 'progressivist' practice and a renewed focus on structure, knowledge and expectations.

Tonight, Dan takes on perhaps the ultimate question in Western philosophy: if God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-beneficent, how can there be so much suffering in the world?

In the proposed high school curriculum, home economics would cease to be a stand-alone subject and instead be taught within health. Home economics teacher Tina Williams joins Emile Donovan.

We speak to RNZ journalist Lauren Crimp about the latest on the wild weather which hit much of the country today.

What is his secret? How has he stayed at the top for so long, Flinders University sports scientist Dr Dylan Hicks joins Emile Donovan to explain.

Tonight, the 2025 Ig Nobel winners, does a mother eating garlic change the smell of their breast milk, and how physics can help cook the perfect pasta sauce.

We talk to the Metservice for an update on the red weather warnings in place across the country for tomorrow.

Mike Grimshaw is a sociologist at the University of Canterbury and joins Emile Donovan to put the case.

RNZ reporter Lauren Crimp joins us from Wellington.

Rapper, producer and educator joins Emile Donovan in our Auckland studio. 

Our guest Alec Frydman is a carpenter in Laguna Beach, California and joins Emile Donovan to share how he survived for 13 days lost at sea.

Roger Harker is a principal scientist at Plant and Food Research, and a banana enthusiast. He joins Emile Donovan.

Tim Carpenter is the former lead investigator of the FBI's Art Crime Team in the US and speaks to Emile Donovan from the States.

Pete Ross looks at some of the events making international headlines.

Why do some songs get stuck in our heads so easily?

We recap the weekend in sport.

Tonight she's chatting about letters to the editor sent by dogs.

Some residents are not happy at a rubbish collection trial being proposed in parts of Auckland

Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review Black Phone 2 (2025), PIRAHNHA DD (2012) streaming for free on ThreeNow, and Kim's Video (2023) streaming on DocPlay.