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8:10 PM.Dr James Kierstead discusses a new study which shows a rise in A-grades. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Wellington-based freelance journalist and former RNZ reporter Eric Frykberg ranked our best and worst in consultation with historians, economists and insiders. Read more Audio

8:50 PM.We speak with BBC World Service journalist Rob Hugh-Jones about a leaders summit in China, the 60th celebrations marking the formation of the Tibet Autonomous Region and former President of Brazil… Read more Audio

8:40 PM.RNZ sports whiz Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to chat the big sporting topics of the week. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Puppeteer Chye-Ling Huang joins Emile Donovan to preview her existential puppet show Let It Die showing at Auckland's Basement Theatre this week. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.NZ Herald Business Editor-at-Large Liam Dann says the issue isn't that New Zealanders are overcharged, but that we simply don't earn enough. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Featuring new music from Dick Move, Earl Sweatshirt, and Anna von Hausswolff. Read more Audio

8:40 PM.Nights' resident screen critic joins Mark Leishman to review action-packed crime thriller Caught Stealing, the biggest film in the world last weekend K Pop Demon Hunters and the classic cult film The… Read more Audio

8:30 PM.RNZ's own Bryan Crump is the MC for tomorrow night's Gala Concert and joins Mark Leishman. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.Their funding will jump from $125,000 to $500,000 a year. Mark Leishman speaks to the trust's chairman Dr Murray King. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Mark Leishman speaks to RNZ sports journalist and Nights' very own sporting expert Jamie Wall just before kick-off. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.While certainly the minor party with the greatest longevity, have the Greens achieved more than other minor parties like ACT or New Zealand First? Political scientist Natalia Albert discusses. Read more Audio

8:40 PM.Laura Tingle, the ABC's Global Affairs Editor, joins Emile Donovan to explain. Read more Audio

8:25 PM.How far we should go to give children the best start in life? Should parents be able to use genetic engineering - selecting for positive traits, and eliminating potential negatives - when having a… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.After the tragic death of former Māori All Black Shane Christie, Emile Donovan speaks to neurophysiologist and concussion researcher Professor Alan Pearce. Read more Audio

9:35 PM.Every two years, a gallery in Mangaweka holds a competition for who can create the best forgery artworks: practices otherwise frowned upon in the art world. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Ezzy Pearson is an expert in all things space, with more than a decade of experience in science journalism, including as Features Editor of BBC’s Sky at Night magazine. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.NZ Herald senior writer Simon Wilson was moderating the debate and joins Emile Donovan to discuss. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.David Rudrum is an English lecturer at the University of Huddersfield and the author of Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary… Read more Audio

8:45 PM.Bryan Wall, product test writer at Consumer NZ, joins Emile Donovan to explain. Read more Audio

8:35 PM.Pranay Baidya came to New Zealand for his education and now runs his own fashion label in Delhi, India. He's back in NZ for a series of trunk shows and joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:25 PM.Managing editor of Te Herenga Waka University Press Ashleigh Young joins Emile Donovan to discuss the merits of the em dash and its friends: the comma, the semicolon, the ellipsis, and the period. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Professor Andrew Geddis from the University of Otago's faculty of law joins Emile Donovan to discuss the balance between free speech and privacy. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Doctor Philip Barnes is a principal scientist at Earth Sciences New Zealand, formerly known as NIWA and he joins Emile Donovan to discuss the findings of a new international study. Read more Audio

8:50 PM.BBC World Service reporter Pete Ross joins Emile Donovan to look at some of the events making headlines. Read more Audio