RNZ: Nights

Wayne Stables was the visual effects supervisor for House of the Dragon season 2 and joins Emile Donovan.

It's our monthly chat with Nights' resident sociolinguist.

RNZ In Depth and data journalist Farah Hancock has been trying to get to bottom of it and joins Emile Donovan.

Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University's Liam Martin is a criminologist who researches electronic monitoring, and joins Emile Donovan. 

Chaz Monaghan is co-founder of Muma Matcha in Queenstown and joins Emile Donovan.

The Australian entertainment journalist and broadcaster joins Emile Donovan.

Dr Sarah Aiono is the CEO and Director of pedagogy consultancy Longworth Education and joins Emile Donovan to discuss the change.

 Untold Intimacies tells the story of sex work and its transformation in Aotearoa over thirty critical years.

Jessica Chambers is the campaigns lead at SAFE for Animals NZ and joins Emile Donovan to explain.

We've all experienced the miracle of leaving keys, kids' toys or hot cups of coffee on top of cars and driving off without noticing. Professor of physics Richard Easther joins Emile Donovan to explain how these items stay put.

Magnetic levitation technology which could see trains travel faster than most planes. Richard Strahan joins Emile Donovan to explain how it works.

The third annual State of the City report shows New Zealand's biggest city is lagging behind its international peers. Todd Niall has been an Auckland issues reporter for decades and joins Emile Donovan.

Professor Musa al-Gharbi is visiting New Zealand this week to discuss his new book We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite and joins Emile Donovan

Rob Hugh Jones joins us to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally. 

Dr Madeline Shelling joins Emile Donovan to explain. 

RNZ sports whiz Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to debrief the weekend of sport.

Gareth Hughes, former Green MP joins Emile Donovan.

An update from Mary Argue who has been in Motueka today.

Emile Donovan speaks to civil defence controller for Nelson/Tasman Alec Louverdis about the state of play in the rain-stricken Tasman region.

Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review Superman, The Night Of and Wake in Fright.

Producer Bonnie Harrison turns the tables on the quizmaster and takes a closer look at some of this week's quiz questions.

The annual open water Ice Swimming Championships are underway at Blue Lake in St Bathans, Central Otago. Emile speaks to event organiser Sue Sherwen.

Emile Donovan gets the latest forecast from Metservice meteorologist Karl Loots.

Emile Donovan speaks to Tasman District Mayor Tim King as the region continues to be lashed with heavy rain.

A new book is commemorating the public houses that have shaped the great city, and which are no longer with us. A total of 204 pubs feature in the book, which have since been transformed into convenience stores, doctors' offices, childcare centres, or simply stand empty. Sam Cullen is the author of London's Lost Pubs and he speaks to Emile Donovan.

When does creative nonfiction cross the line into fabrication, and does it matter? That's the question being asked by many after serious concerns were raised about the bestselling memoir The Salt Path. The 2018 book, which has sold nearly two million copies worldwide and been adapted into a feature film, tells the story of a couple, Raynor Winn and her husband Moth, who walked Britain's 1,000km South West Coast Path after their home was repossessed. But an investigation by the Observer newspaper has cast doubt over key parts of the memoir, including how the couple lost their home, the fact that they owned land in France and questions around Moth's terminal diagnosis of a rare disease. So, what should we expect from a memoir? Should we take everything written as the truth and nothing but the truth? Or is there room for creative embellishment? To explore the issue, Emile speaks to writer, editor and lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Nicola Redhouse.

Most of us hopefully know that bed sheets should be washed at least once a week, but what about everything else? Should you be vacuuming your mattress every month or washing your pillows regularly? To help get to the bottom of this, Emile Donovan is joined by professional housekeeper, cleaner and organiser Rachael Quinn.

The great Southern city of Dunedin has been named as one of the world's up-and-coming travel destinations for the queer community. Otepoti has the second-largest proportion of LGBTQ+ people in the country, as per our last census, and travel magazine Wanderlust has put it on the map. Emile Donovan speaks to Meihana Potiki-Grayling, chair of Dunedin Pride.

Meteorologist Karl Loots joins Emile Donovan for an updated forecast as heavy rain warnings remain for parts of the North and the top of the South Island.

Homeowners whose houses are flooded or damaged by weather events should not expect buy-outs in the future, a panel of experts has recommended to the government. An independent reference group set up by the Ministry for the Environment released a suite of recommendations on Wednesday to help the government shape climate adaptation legislation. The group recommended a 20-year transition period, after which homeowners whose houses are flooded or damaged by weather events should not expect buy-outs. Emile Donovan speaks to Victoria University's chair of the school of government Professor Jonathan Boston about the consequences of any policy change.

Emile Donovan speaks to Associate Professor Nic Rawlence, Director of the University of Otago's Palaeogenetics Laboratory.

To explain what's drawing so many travelers, Emile speaks to Lonely Planet's Oceania editor Jessica Lockhart.

Few people are more closely linked to the ship than author and journalist David Robie, who spent eleven weeks on board during its final voyage through the Pacific. He joins Emile Donovan.

The 'Temple of Transition' will be publicly, and ceremoniously, burnt into a heaping pile of rubble.

InternetNZ CEO Vivien Maideborn joins Emile Donovan to explain.

Tennis correspondent Dave Worsley joins Emile Donovan to discuss some dubious use of electronic judging technology used at Wimbledon over the weekend.

David Smith, an associate professor with the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, joins Emile Donovan to assess Musk's prospects.

Andrew Lensen, senior lecturer of artificial intelligence at Victoria University of Wellington, joins Emile Donovan.

Amy Errmann is a senior lecturer in marketing and international business at AUT and joins Emile Donovan to discuss how our desire to age better (or not at all) is fueling a hungry mega-market.

BBC World Service journalist Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally including Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with US President Donald Trump, the 90-day pause on Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs that are set to expire this week and Poland setting up controls on its border with fellow EU member Germany.

RNZ sports whiz Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to debrief the weekend of sport, including the All Blacks' narrow victory over the French in Dunedin and what the visiting rugby journalist thought about the southern city. 

Back in 1992, Nights listener Dean met his holiness and got to spend an afternoon with him - and even gave the Dalai Lama a hot tip.