RNZ: Nights

Nick Ascroft is releasing his sixth book of poetry called "It's What He Would've Wanted", and he joins Emile Donovan.

We take a look at some of the big stories in science.

Barbara J Sahakian is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge, and she joins Emile Donovan.

Music writer Chris Schulz joins Emile Donovan to discuss the hiatus of another iconic and long-running New Zealand festival.

Professor of avian behavioural ecology at Macquarie University in Australia, Simon Griffith joins Emile Donovan.

Operations Manager at the Auckland Library of Tools, Tom Greer, joins Emile Donovan.

Dunedin writer and novelist Fiona Farrell joins Emile Donovan.

Ollie Neas is the co-founder of website Policy.nz, a tool you can use to find out just who is running in your area and what they stand for.

The second of the investigative series into Destiny Church, 'Under His Command', is out today on TVNZ+.

RNZ sports journalist Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to recap a big weekend in sport.

We cross to our friends at the BBC World Service to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally. 

Todd Atticus is a designer and has designed plenty of election hoardings and joins Emile Donovan. 

Child psychologist Doctor Sarah Watson joins Emile Donovan.

Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review comedy-thriller Fight or Flight (2024) in cinemas now, documentary My Mom Jayne (2025) streaming on Neon, and sci-fi Ad Astra (2019) streaming for free on TVNZ+.

Murray Crane of Crane Brothers has been designing New Zealand menswear for more than 25 years, with Armani a constant presence throughout his career.

The Birds Began to Sing is his fifth novel and received the Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript in 2024.

Former editor of The Press, Andrew Holden joins Mark Leishman to reflect on the September 4th quake in 2010.

Brian Sobelis an official Guinness World Record adjudicator and joins Mark Leishman to talk all things world records.

Blake Bennett is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching and Pedagogy, University of Auckland, and joins Mark Leishman.

Psychologist Cailin Jordan joins Emile Donovan.

Dr Stephen Young is an Associate Professor at the University of Otago's Faculty of Law and joins Emile Donovan.

Vivienne Crawshaw is a KC and a leading family law specialist in New Zealand with more than thirty years' experience.

Julia Kasper is the Lead Curator of Invertebrates at Te Papa, she is an insect expert, and she joins Emile Donovan to explain.

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

Celia Hogan is founder and lead educator of Little Kiwis Nature Play and joins Emile Donovan.

Dr James Kierstead discusses a new study which shows a rise in A-grades.

Wellington-based freelance journalist and former RNZ reporter Eric Frykberg ranked our best and worst in consultation with historians, economists and insiders.

We speak with BBC World Service journalist Rob Hugh-Jones about a leaders summit in China, the 60th celebrations marking the formation of the Tibet Autonomous Region and former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro goes on trial for attempting to mount a coup to seize power. 

RNZ sports whiz Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to chat the big sporting topics of the week.

Puppeteer Chye-Ling Huang joins Emile Donovan to preview her existential puppet show Let It Die showing at Auckland's Basement Theatre this week.

NZ Herald Business Editor-at-Large Liam Dann says the issue isn't that New Zealanders are overcharged, but that we simply don't earn enough.

Nights' resident screen critic joins Mark Leishman to review action-packed crime thriller Caught Stealing, the biggest film in the world last weekend K Pop Demon Hunters and the classic cult film The Toxic Avenger.

Their funding will jump from $125,000 to $500,000 a year. Mark Leishman speaks to the trust's chairman Dr Murray King.

Mark Leishman speaks to RNZ sports journalist and Nights' very own sporting expert Jamie Wall just before kick-off.

While certainly the minor party with the greatest longevity, have the Greens achieved more than other minor parties like ACT or New Zealand First? Political scientist Natalia Albert discusses.

Laura Tingle, the ABC's Global Affairs Editor, joins Emile Donovan to explain.

How far we should go to give children the best start in life? Should parents be able to use genetic engineering - selecting for positive traits, and eliminating potential negatives - when having a child?

After the tragic death of former Māori All Black Shane Christie, Emile Donovan speaks to neurophysiologist and concussion researcher Professor Alan Pearce.

Every two years, a gallery in Mangaweka holds a competition for who can create the best forgery artworks: practices otherwise frowned upon in the art world.

Ezzy Pearson is an expert in all things space, with more than a decade of experience in science journalism, including as Features Editor of BBC's Sky at Night magazine.

NZ Herald senior writer Simon Wilson was moderating the debate and joins Emile Donovan to discuss.

David Rudrum is an English lecturer at the University of Huddersfield and the author of Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary Classics. He joins Emile Donovan.