Nights for Tuesday 5 August 2025

8:10 Landmark new report into community sport

Sport clubs across New Zealand are struggling as they face a double whammy of increasing costs and decreasing number of volunteers.

That's the finding of the Stronger Communities Through Sport report which draws on seven years of research gathered through the National Sport Club Survey.

Despite hard times the report found sporting clubs across the country were still the beating heart of many communities providing important wider social benefits.

Dr Mel Johnston is a senior lecturer in Sport Management at AUT, and the project lead for the report. She joins Mark Leishman.

8:20 European correspondent Christian Smith

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.

8:40 Shower Thoughts: Who edits Wikipedia?

Every week we find experts to answer curious questions about the world and how it works.

Tonight: who are the people who silently keep the world's biggest online encyclopedia running smoothly? Who edits Wikipedia, and how can people give it a go?

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.

Join Wikimedia's species edit-a-thon effort this weekend.

9:05 Nights Quiz

Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Mark Leishman as he dons his quizmaster hat.

If you get an answer right, you move on to the next question. If you get it wrong, your time in the chair is up, and the next caller will be put through. The person with the most correct answers at the end of the run goes in the draw for a weekly prize.

9:25 Greg Broadmore: The wonderful world of graphic novels

Wellington man Greg Broadmore's latest work, the 200-page One Path, is set in a prehistoric world where cavewomen must survive in a world populated by dinosaurs.

Greg has worked at Wētā Workshop for two decades, designing for films such as District 9, King Kong and Avatar. 

He helped establish the Wētā Game Studio, but says nothing compares to the power and purity of making comics. 

He joins Mark Leishman.

9:45 Pacific Waves

A daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world. Hosted by Susana Suisuiki.

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10:17 The Detail

FBI Director Kash Patel's visit to New Zealand has been described as important, useful, and mutually beneficial - but it's also business as usual. Alexia Russell reports.

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10:45 The Reading

Part two of Fiona Farrell's story 'The Play of Light', as read by Janet Fisher.

11:07 Worlds of Music

Trevor Reekie hosts a weekly music programme celebrating an eclectic mix of trans global music, fusion and folk roots.