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10:18 PM.Emile Donovan speaks to John Ballingall, an economist at Sense Partners. Read more Audio

9:35 PM.A new dystopian novel imagines Aotearoa as one of the last nations in the world with clean, drinkable water. Author Jacqueline Owens joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Classics educator and enthusiast Ben Jackson takes Nights on a virtual tour of the Colosseum, the Parthenon, and the Pantheon. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.A Minecraft Movie is in New Zealand cinemas today - but Waikato District councillor David Whyte was lucky enough to see a preview ahead of the general public. Read more Audio

10:35 PM.UK researcher John Scanlan is fascinated by the idea of waste and has written two books on the subject. His latest, The Idea of Waste, tells the story of waste through human history. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Associate Professor Sergio Biggemann from the Otago Business School says while NZ's length and low population density plays a part, there are many more factors that contribute to our higher prices. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Joshua Yuvaraj is the co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Intellectual Property, and a senior lecturer in law at the University of Auckland specialising in copyright and artificial intelligence.

8:30 PM.Emile Donovan speaks to career coach Tom O'Neil, the managing director of CV.CO.NZ. Read more Audio

10:40 PM.We look at its history, and some of the most famous April Fool's Day jokes, including the BBC's Spaghetti Tree story. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Scott Marlow is head of service delivery at Public Trust and joins Emile Donovan to answer all your uncomfortable questions about wills. Read more Audio

10:17 PM.Studying Shakespeare is one of a number of compulsory requirements proposed under the new draft English curriculum. Shakespeare expert, Hannah August joins Emile Donovan to discuss. Read more Audio

9:35 PM.Associate professor in the department of food science at the University of Otago, Dr Graham Eyres, joins Nights to explain. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Chris Dobbs started Working Style in the mid-1980s and joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Dr Andreea Calude joins Emile Donovan to discuss how lowercase writing reflects a generational shift - and what it means for language.  Read more Audio

10:45 PM.We join the BBC to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally  Read more Audio

10:30 PM.RNZ sports reporter Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan in the studio to talk about the weekend of sport. Read more Audio

10:17 PM.Judy Hayden lived in Myanmar's biggest city Rangon between 1998 to 2019 - as a volunteer with a mission and as a teacher. She joins Emile Donovan.  Read more Audio

9:35 PM.Professor Karin Bryan is the recipient of a Marsden Fund grant to investigate these heat waves and joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Madeleine Hakaraia de Young, the director of the Māoriland Film Festival, which wrapped up over the weekend in Ōtaki shares a favourite whakataukī. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Bryce Edwards is the author of The Integrity Institute on Substack, and director of the Democracy Project, and joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:35 PM.It's time for our weekly catchup with Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Every Friday on Nights, we look ahead to one of the many weird and wonderful events happening over the weekend. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.It's disappeared post-Covid, but for more than two decades, Napier man Hamish Jamieson was the man you needed to see if you wanted hitch a ride on one of these ocean-going freighters. Read more Audio