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8:10 PM.Andrew Lensen, senior lecturer of artificial intelligence at Victoria University of Wellington, joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Amy Errmann is a senior lecturer in marketing and international business at AUT and joins Emile Donovan to discuss how our desire to age better (or not at all) is fueling a hungry mega-market. Read more Audio

8:40 PM.BBC World Service journalist Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan to take a look at some of the events making headlines internationally including Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with… Read more Audio

8:30 PM.RNZ sports whiz Jamie Wall joins Emile Donovan to debrief the weekend of sport, including the All Blacks' narrow victory over the French in Dunedin and what the visiting rugby journalist thought about… Read more Audio

8:25 PM.Back in 1992, Nights listener Dean met his holiness and got to spend an afternoon with him - and even gave the Dalai Lama a hot tip. Read more Audio

Former MP and cabinet minister Peter Dunne thinks MPs have an obligation to the public to serve out their full terms, after New Zealand First list MP Tanya Unkovich became the seventh MP to resign… Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Featuring tracks from Celtic experimental musician Brìghde Chaimbeul, indie band Speed of Light, and Christchurch bedroom pop artist Pickle Darling. Read more Audio

8:40 PM.Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review Jessica Lange film The Great Lillian Hall (2024), buddy comedy Heads of State (2025) streaming on Prime Video, and Walking to New Orleans… Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Producer Bonnie Harrison turns the tables on the quizmaster and takes a closer look at some of this week's quiz questions. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.Dhargyey Buddhist Centre Trust chairperson Peter Small joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.After more than a decade at the helm, the current owners have decided it's time to hang up their bar mats and put the place on the market. Co-owner Cade Thornton joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Biological age tests claim to measure how old your body is on a cellular level. Hassan Vally at Deakin University in Australia and is an expert when it comes to interpreting health data and joins… Read more Audio

8:45 PM.Tim Hunt is a Melbourne-based lighting designer who constantly thinks about how humans interact with light and how better lighting can make our cities safer, more welcoming and more beautiful. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.University of Waikato senior lecturer in philosophy Dan Weijers joins Emile Donovan to ponder immortality. Read more Audio

8:25 PM.After being stumped during Midweek Mediawatch with Hayden Donnell, Emile Donovan calls up Nights' resident sociolinguist, associate professor Julia de Bres from Massey University, to weigh in on… Read more Audio

8:20 PM.Metservice meteorologist Stephen Glassey joins Emile Donovan for an update on the severe thunderstorms in Taranaki and other wild weather around the country. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Anneka Carlson Matthews first ran for the New Plymouth District Council in 2019 as a 29-year old former police officer and small business owner. She joins Emile Donovan to encourage people to give… Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Faye Skelton is an associate professor in forensic cognition and miscarriages of justice at Edinburgh Napier University. She has been interviewing men who have lived through being wrongfully… Read more Audio

8:20 PM.Professor Richard Easther from the University of Auckland joins Emile Donovan to reflect on the news that New Zealand's methane-tracking satellite, launched in March 2024, has lost contact with the… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.After Qantas' customer data was breached, cybersecurity analyst Adam Boileau joins Emile Donovan to discuss how common cyberattacks like this are and how worried Qantas customers should be. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.The newly-appointed Chief Librarian of our National Library joins Emile Donovan to reflect on a life in books and the strategic future of the Alexander Turnbull and its new bedfellows, Archives New… Read more Audio

8:40 PM.Wellington composer Michael Williams joins Emile Donovan to explain - and to test his own perfect pitch. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.Christian Smith beams in to share news from the other side of the globe, including Irish rap group Kneecap's controversial set at Glastonbury, a bad fortnight for British prime minister Keir Starmer… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.With another 'prominent New Zealander' in the headlines over unnamed charges, Wellington media lawyer Steven Price joins Emile Donovan to discuss how name suppression works. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Through exploiting a distribution loop, AI-generated songs were being uploaded against Australian bassist Paul Bender's will, and it remains foggy who's behind the ghost songs. He joins Emile Donovan.