All episodes
Friday, 8 November 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: Scarecrow's Big Day Out
- 9:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 Students struggling to find summer jobs
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 7 November 2024
- 9:15 Celebrating Leonard Cohen eight years after his death
- 9:35 Carl Shuker tackles death and copy editing in new novel
- 10:18 Tariffs are coming, so what does that mean for our exporters?
- 10:30 Polio: The disease that doesn't go away
- 10:45 Architecture graduate turned illustrator celebrates beauty of New Zealand houses
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
- 10:18 The state of play as Election Day in the US comes to an end
- 10:30 Cooking in the coldest environment on earth
- 10:45 Dunedin sports fan's lifelong dream set to become a reality
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: How do you judge a book by its cover?
- 9:40 Politics by Night US Presidential special with Laura Walters
- 10:18 Prostate cancer roadshow hits the tarmac
- 10:30 The chemistry behind big fireworks displays
- 10:45 New Zealand's first boat register launches
Monday, 4 November 2024
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Airana Ngarewa
- 9:30 The scientists who make TV and movie come to life
- 10:18 Mike Grimshaw: Some New Zealand university students "functionally illiterate"
- 10:30 Sports with Jamie Wall
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Pete Ross
Friday, 1 November 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: The Gisborne CBD Spring Clean
- 9:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 New Zealand's first football derby set to kick off
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
- 11:06 Why student radio is still special
Thursday, 31 October 2024
- 9:15 Philosophy Now: Will technology really save us?
- 9:40 The 3,000-year old Celtic festival behind Halloween
- 10:18 Banning hateful symbols and salutes
- 10:30 New podcast investigates billion dollar Kiwi supplement company
- 10:50 From Taieri to NASA: Our unique cloud formation
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
- 9:15 Our Changing World's Claire Concannon
- 10:18 New Zealand losing its religion, census data shows
- 10:30 The challenge of delivering rural dental care
- 10:45 Dunedin gets its own Monopoly board
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: Why are there so many ways to sell a house?
- 9:40 Politics by Night with Dan Brunskill
- 10:18 The importance of court interpreters and why they're not just translating
- 10:30 How solar panels in schools could build the country's largest virtual power plant
- 10:45 The search for a family heirloom lost for nearly 40 years
Friday, 25 October 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: Raglan Art Weekend
- 9:35 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 Long-lost story by author of Dracula rediscovered 130 years later
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 24 October 2024
- 9:15 Why we love to hate Americanisms
- 9:40 Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure: The grunge club scene in provincial UK
- 10:18 The contrasting fortunes of Tory Whanau and Wayne Brown
- 10:30 The film festival aiming to terrify its audience
- 10:45 Free fish for a good cause
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
- 9:15 Giving an outlet and voice to youth with disabilities
- 9:30 Midweek Mediawatch: Sweating the small stuff
- 10:18 New Zealand in desperate need of licensing regime for the breeding of pets
- 10:30 New study into rock climbers' unique psychology
- 10:45 Kiwi-made card game Getting Lost wins big
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: Why is gluten intolerance so common now?
- 9:45 Politics by Night with Thomas Coughlan
- 10:18 More physician associates not the answer, GP association says
- 10:30 Superstar food blogger Nagi Maehashi on her new cookbook
- 10:45 How cricket is keeping hope alive in Ukraine
Monday, 21 October 2024
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Raukura Huata
- 9:30 Everything you ever wanted to know about snot
- 9:50 Tom Sainsbury brings camping drama to the stage
- 10:18 The future of New Zealanders' genetic data held by 23andMe
- 10:30 Sports with Bryan Waddle
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Rob Hugh-Jones
Friday, 18 October 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: The 45th annual national Mustang convention
- 9:30 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:17 Conker Controversy: Organisers address cheating claims at World Champs
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 17 October 2024
- 9:25 New Zealand pre-loved fashion start-up expands into Australia
- 9:35 Biography captures 'special time in New Zealand farming history'
- 9:55 Remembering popstar Liam Payne
- 10:17 Where to now for Darleen Tana after Green Party vote?
- 10:30 New exhibition explores the small universe of home
- 10:45 The Australian dance group building bridges and breaking down walls
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
- 9:20 How housing quality can be a key indicator of well-being
- 10:17 Is the Supreme Court overstepping its bounds?
- 10:30 Fifty-nine of NZ's most iconic treks and how to tramp them
- 10:45 An astronomer's tips for seeing the rare comet in our skies this week
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
- 9:25 Jazz pianist Jonathan Crayford on music, travel and where he calls home
- 9:35 Politics by Night with Laura Walters
- 10:17 Where to now for the Wellington City Council?
- 10:30 Juggler Mike Twist on his life as an international performer
- 10:45 The case for getting rid of rents
Monday, 14 October 2024
- 9:15 The half a million dollar decision still baffling the book industry
- 9:35 Why are we still using BMI if we know its flaws?
- 10:18 Which supermarket is the cheapest?
- 10:30 Sports with Richard Irvine
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin
Friday, 11 October 2024
- 9:20 This Weekend: Jazz Performance at Whanganui Museum
- 9:45 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
- 10:15 The life and legacy of New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock
Thursday, 10 October 2024
- 9:15 Auckland Youth Choir turns 40
- 9:40 Kathleen Jamie on her inspiration and identity as a Scottish poet
- 10:18 Wellington City Council decide to keep airport shares
- 10:30 Hurricane Milton update with NIWA's Ben Noll
- 10:45 How the NZ Crime and Victims survey works
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
- 9:15 Myth Takes: Homer and the epics
- 10:18 Homelessness surging in New Zealand's biggest city, says Census
- 10:30 'An Island to Oneself' republished
- 10:45 Days left to vote for New Zealand's favourite classical music
Tuesday, 8 October 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: What is foreign aid?
- 9:35 Live from the APRA Silver Scrolls with Charlotte Ryan
- 9:45 Politics by Night with Dan Brunskill
- 10:18 What it's going to take to clean up the Manawanui
- 10:30 Kiwi illustrator's love letter to television
- 10:45 It's swooping season, so how do you keep magpies at bay?
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