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8:30 PM.What can you expect to be told in a job interview around salary expectations? Shannon Barlow from Frog Recruitment joins Emile Donovan to discuss. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.A new survey shows monarch butterfly populations are dwindling, and advocates are reintroducing a tagging system (yes, you can tag a butterfly) to keep track of numbers. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Professor of international law Al Gillespie joins Emile Donovan to explain how the CIA came to its finding, and why they had jurisdiction to make a claim. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.A social media backlash is underway in the United Kingdom with well-known milk brands being poured down drains and people vowing never to buy them again. Read more Audio

9:35 PM.New Product Development Manager at Whittaker's Megan Sinclair joins Emile Donovan to indulge his questions about chocolate flavour creation. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Nights' resident tech correspondent Finn Hogan joins Emile Donovan to talk about the shock fall of Chinese AI app DeepSeek, and the race between China and the US to achieve sustainable nuclear fusion… Read more Audio

8:30 PM.The Amorphophallus titanum, nicknamed Putricia, attracted over 20,000 physical visitors keen to lay their noses on its infamous smell before wilting and collapsing a few days later - while over one… Read more Audio

10:45 PM.BBC World's Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan for the latest on the Israel-Gaza ceasefire, a US federal reserve decision on interest rates, and marking five years since Brexit. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.RNZ sports journalist Jamie Wall joins Emile to debrief the week in sport. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.A quarter of high schools in New Zealand now offer students alternative education qualifications, like Cambridge International, instead of the national school qualification NCEA level one. Read more Audio

9:35 PM.Despite being home to a whole cast of creepy crawlies, barely anyone has died from a spider bite in Australia in decades. We have antivenom to thank. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Artist and designer Johnson Witehira (Tamahaki, Ngāi Tū-te-auru) has a storied and eclectic career, recently announced as the new head of Music and Screen Arts at Massey University. Read more Audio

10:17 PM.The universe is lumpier than first thought! New findings from a team of New Zealand scientists shows that the universe does not expand at a constant, flat rate, but in a fluctuating or lumpy way. Read more Audio

9:30 PM.Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Maggie Tweedie to review Mufasa: The Lion King (2024), documentary Sugarcane (2024), and a selection of free-streaming family movies on ThreeNow: The… Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Every Friday, we bring you some of the most interesting events and happenings coming up in Aotearoa this weekend. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.Maggie Tweedie speaks to Shannon Thompson from Red Frogs who has some tips for what to talk about with teenagers before they head off for summer. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Levi Patel made a video about his visit to a small Chinese city, set to his new single 'Gravity'. The next day, he awoke to his notifications blowing up. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.The search for people trapped in rubble and landslides is continuing today as the New Zealand Defence Force arrives in Port Vila. Read more Audio

9:40 PM.Since March this year, Jonny Beardmore has been travelling the globe to hand-deliver 50 letters to strangers around the world collected from an ancient postbox on Isla Floreana in the Galapagos… Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Maggie Tweedie speaks to Mark Broatch, books editor at the NZ Listener, about some of the best books published this year. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.To guide us through Jason Attewell the general manager of economic and environmental insights at Stats NZ speaks to Maggie Tweedie. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.The story, which has no dialogue, follows a cat who, after a violent flood, teams up with an unlikely group of animals, a bird, a dog, a lemur, and a capybara to pilot a boat in search of survival and… Read more Audio

10:18 PM.As well as security concerns, the sightings have been connected to conspiracy theories about foreign agents and secret government plots. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Maggie Tweedie gets the latest on the recovery in Vanuatu following yesterday's devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake with RNZ Pacific journalist Lydia Lewis. Read more Audio