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    Out Lately with Finn Johansson

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2025 16:41


    He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music including tracks from Satin Sheets, jackaltheblackal and Dale Kerrigan.

    Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2025 20:11


    Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile to review Riviera Revenge (in cinemas), The Friend (in cinemas) and The Pickup (Prime Video).

    The Quiz Appendix: Women's words and men's words

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2025 9:03


    Nights producer Bonnie Harrison revisits the week in quizzes, and looks at why some words are better known to some people than others.

    What makes a great building?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2025 16:29


    Craig is director of Moller Architects which has been in practice since 1969 and has designed the likes of the Sky Tower and ASB Waterfront Theatre in Auckland. He tells Emile what he thinks makes a great building. 

    Aaron Smith: The Psychology of Sports Fans

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025 14:40


    Professor Aaron Smith from the University of Canberra and Loughborough University is the author of The Psychology of Sports Fans and Football on The Brain: Why Minds Love Sport, which looks at the cognitive science of sports fandom and faith.

    Vintage rugby jersey pops up in high-end London fashion label

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025 3:49


    A shirt strikingly similar to the one worn by Canterbury in the 2001 NPC championship is now being sold by London-based Palace Skateboards, a brand beloved by celebrities like Justin Bieber, Seth Rogen and Kylie Jenner.

    Looking back at the wellbeing era

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025 21:34


    Political scientist Natalia Albert joins Emile Donovan to revisit what New Zealand's 'wellbeing era' of governance got right, and got wrong.

    Loosening the jar lid - who's the real hero?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025 9:36


    When we fail to open a jar, and we pass it to our spouse who opens it without breaking a sweat, have we helped to loosen it or not? Richard Easther, professor of physics at the University of Auckland, explains.

    Is New Zealand's relationship with Australia better than ever?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025 10:06


    Ahead of a bilateral summit this weekend, director of the centre for strategic studies at Victoria University of Wellington David Capie joins Emile Donovan. 

    Science and God: The Pope's Astronomer on why science and religion are not opposing forces

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2025 18:25


    Brother Guy is currently on a speaking tour of New Zealand and joins Emile Donovan to talk about faith, science and whether he would baptise aliens.

    ‘Lost' Frances Hodgkins painting valued at $112,000

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2025 8:26


    The unsigned artwork was verified during an episode of the BBC television programme Fake or Fortune by our very own Mary Kisler. She joins Emile Donovan

    Biggest overhaul of road funding in half a century on its way

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2025 17:24


    Under the new system, road users would pay road user charges online, similar to a power bill. Senior fellow at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Stuart Donovan joins Nights to discuss.

    Greg Broadmore: The wonderful world of graphic novels

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025 21:43


    Wellington artist Greg Boardmore helped establish the Wētā Game Studio, but says nothing compares to the power and purity of making comics. He joins Mark Leishman.

    Shower Thoughts: Who edits Wikipedia?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025 18:09


    Avid editor Marshall Clark (who penned the Wikipedia page for RNZer Bryan Crump), also a committee member for Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand, joins Mark Leishman to explain.

    European correspondent Christian Smith

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025 11:41


    Christian Smith joins Mark Leishman to discuss a fraught immigration climate in the UK, pressure on for Russia to agree to peace talks with Ukraine, and a Kiwi performer at the Edinburgh Fringe festival who's making headlines for his ability to fold a fitted sheet.

    Landmark new report into community sport

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025 13:33


    Sport clubs across New Zealand are struggling as they face a double whammy of increasing costs and decreasing number of volunteers. Report project lead Dr Mel Johnston joins Mark Leishman.

    The potential for poo transplants to cure bipolar

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025 21:37


    A Gut Mood Solution is by Gordon Parker, a professor of psychiatry at the University of New South Wales. He speaks to Mark Leishman about a novel way to treat bipolar disorder.

    BBC World Service Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025 7:13


    BBC World Service journalist Jonathan Frewin joins Mark Leishman to take a look at events making international headlines, including a global plastics treaty being negotiated in Geneva, the Moscow trial over the attacks at Crocus City Hall last year, and Poland's new president is sworn in this week.

    Sports with Jamie Wall

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025 17:52


    RNZ sports journalist Jamie Wall joins Mark Leishman to debrief the weekend of sport.

    What Christchurch's poor air quality means for our health

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025 9:32


    Overnight, the air quality in parts of Canterbury was rated as 'unhealthy' using the air quality index. Environmental epidemiologist Professor Simon Hales explains what that means.

    NCEA changes on the way

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025 10:21


    Dr Michael Johnston is a senior research fellow at The New Zealand Initiative who led the government's Curriculum Refresh Ministerial Advisory Group. He has long called for an overhaul of NCEA .

    The Quiz Appendix: Cousins and councils

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2025 8:56


    Nights producer Bonnie Harrison joins Emile Donovan to review the week in quiztastic glory.

    This Weekend: 10 years of Vogelmorn Bowling Club

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2025 5:36


    Vogelmorn Bowling Club trustee Bronnie Wilde joins Emile Donovan to reflect on the club's 10th anniversary.

    Local body elections with Jonathan Milne

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2025 16:39


    Local body elections are officially underway, with nominations closing at midday today. Jonathan Milne, managing editor of Newsroom Pro, joins Emile Donovan to chew over the shape of the next few months as prospective councillors, chairs and mayors gear up for a long campaign

    Author Kerri Andrews on the desire to walk

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2025 18:29


    Kerri Andrews, author of Pathfinding, talks about what it means to rediscover oneself through the land we walk on.

    The Reread with Elizabeth Knox

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2025 19:24


    Esteemed Aotearoa author Elizabeth Knox shares her thoughts on her reread of The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.

    Philosophy Now: Is buzz-killing a social crime?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2025 8:03


    Is buzz-killing a social crime? Do we have a moral obligation to be happy? Professor Dan Weijers sheds some light.

    Why screaming phones are a last resort

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2025 12:39


    Dr Sally Potter, founder and director of Canary Innovation Limited, shares her perspective on the necessity of emergency mobile phone alerts in light of recent nationwide technical glitches.

    Staging sex on screen

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2025 29:13


    In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandals and subsequent #MeToo and Time's Up movements, Ita O'Brien introduced the "Intimacy On Set Guidelines".

    What's a city?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2025 12:30


    New Zealand has thirteen city councils but do we actually have that many cities?

    The declining rate of cousins

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2025 16:20


    Fewer children being born means those that are grow up with fewer cousins. Sociologist Dan Woodman joins Emile Donovan to explain this little-discussed shift in our family structures.

    Shower Thoughts: How do you get a patent?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2025 17:05


    Leading patent attorney Matt Adams, a partner at trans-Tasman intellectual property firm FB Rice, joins Emile Donovan from RNZ's Wellington studio to explain how you get a patent, how they're enforced, and why you might need one.

    Live from the 2025 Bakels New Zealand Supreme Pie Awards

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2025 3:48


    Emile Donovan crosses to the glitz and glamour of our nation's pie awards to congratulate gold category winner Jason Hay from Richoux Patisserie Ellerslie.

    Historians at sea

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2025 14:52


    The Ministry for Culture and Heritage is disestablishing four of its five senior historian roles. Historian and former editor for Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand Jock Phillips joins Nights to discuss.

    Josh Drummond: A cynic's guide to self-help books

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025 17:33


    In a quest to optimise his own life, writer Josh Drummond has spent years consuming and reviewing self-help books for his Substack The Cynic's Guide to Self-Improvement. He joins Emile Donovan.

    BBC World Service lookahead with Rob Hugh-Jones

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025 8:49


    BBC World Service reporter Rob Hugh-Jones joins Emile Donovan to take a look at some of the events making international headlines, including reports of starvation in Gaza, Afghan populations leaving Iran, and a border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand.

    Sports with Jamie Wall

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025 14:39


    RNZ sports whiz Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to debrief the week that was in sport.

    Fantasy claims 25 percent of NZ's top books list

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025 6:18


    Ruby Wallace, the owner of Auckland romance bookstore Enamoured Books, joins Emile Donovan to explain the craze behind fantasy, and particularly the steamy sub-genre romantasy.

    Material change for the construction industry

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025 15:32


    Professor John Tookey from AUT joins Emile Donovan to look at whether improving the availability of overseas materials will bring down the high cost of construction.

    Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 16:15


    Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (in cinemas), Giri/Haji (Netflix) and The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (Tubi). 

    The Quiz Appendix: Poems and planets

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 9:23


    Nights producer Bonnie Harrison joins Emile Donovan to review the week in quiztastic glory.

    This Weekend: Offal-y Good Festival

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 6:43


    Lincoln Tan, who runs Chow Luck Club alongside Bee Koh, speaks to Emile.

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