RNZ: Nights

Colin Peacock pops in on a Tuesday to discuss the long-rumoured, now-announced merger cooked up between TradeMe and Stuff.

Klim Type Foundry in Wellington have designed fonts for The Financial Times, Paypal and National Geographic; and closer to home, Kate Evans' definitive book about feijoas, Feijoa (which fittingly enough featured the Klim font, 'Feijoa').

RNZ sport reporter Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to debrief the week in sport, including the rise of 'run it straight' impact sports.

Dr Rob Bell, the managing director of adaptation consultancy Bell Adapt, co-authored a paper exploring our biggest cities' risk profiles in a changing climate.

Tonight he's spinning tunes from Salt Water Criminals, Salad Boys and Ganavya. 

Amy Parris is the costume designer behind 20th century nostalgia hits Stranger Things and Yellowjackets. She's in Auckland for Wintergeddon and joins Emile Donovan to talk about her work.

Dan Slevin is back to talk about supernatural horror film Bring Her Back, documentary Deaf President Now! and a look back at Scarfies.

Every month in Dunedin the club brings people together for a relaxed, no-pressure drawing session where no experience is needed.

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.

RNZ music journalist Tony Stamp beams in from the biggest night in New Zealand Music to share who's won big.

The CEO of advocacy group Rewiring Aotearoa Mike Casey joins Emile Donovan.

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.

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.

Timaru District Council's Water Plant Manager John Clemens celebrates with Emile Donovan.

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.

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.

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.

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 crime will always find a way.

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. 

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 and consideration at the national government level.

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.

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.

Clinical psychologist Dougal Southerland sits down to talk to Emile to explain why people queue to disembark many minutes before actually disembarking.

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.

RNZ sports reporter Jamie Wall joins Emile in the studio to talk about the big sports stories from the weekend.

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 explain why.

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.

Tonight, broadcaster and businessman Sir Ian Taylor sits down in the Auckland studio with Emile Donovan.

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 the beauty in the ugly.

Featuring American indie darlings Wednesday, Norwegian punk band Honningbarna, and multi-instrumentalist 3S-AMI-5A.

Former Olympian turned academic Dave Gerrard joins Emile Donovan to discuss a controversial new sporting event set to debut in Las Vegas next May.

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+.

Director of the Wairarapa Film Festival Jane Ross joins Emile Donovan.

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 professor Julia de Bres from Massey University joins Todd Zaner to break it down.

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.

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.

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 Donovan in Turtle Bay to share some tricks of the trade, and other surprising stories.

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.

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.

Host of RNZ podcast Kelly Tarlton's Final Treasure Hunt Hamish Williams joins Emile Donovan in Turtle Bay to share his journey of exploration and discovery.

An employee of Tonkin and Taylor was caught on camera actively heckling coalition leader Winston Peters earlier this week. Now, his job could be at risk. Leading employment lawyer Barbara Buckett is here to lay down the law on it all with Emile Donovan.

Earlier this week news broke of former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis, and that he hadn't had a prostate cancer check for more than a decade. Peter Dickens, CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation NZ, calls in to stress the importance of regular screening.