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He joins Emile Donovan to discuss his new book How They Get You, a guide to hanging on to your hard-earned cash and spotting the tricks designed to make you spend it. Read more Audio

8:50 PM.BBC World Service reporter Rob Hugh-Jones drops by to take a look at events making international headlines. Read more Audio

8:40 PM.RNZ's Jamie Wall joins with the latest sports, including the All Blacks' victory over Scotland.  Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Emma runs Small Histories of New Zealand, where she digs up curious stories, funny articles, and lost treasures from our past and shares them on social media. Tonight's topic is ghosts.  Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Even after winning $200,000 in costs, Siouxsie Wiles' court case has left her $400,000 out of pocket. Is this fair? Barrister Steve Keall joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Featuring new music from Body of Work, Juana Molina, and Yuhan Su. Read more Audio

8:40 PM.Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review Dan Trachtenberg's 2022 Predator prequel Prey (Disney+), eight-part western-noir series The Lowdown (also Disney+) starring Ethan Hawke. Read more Audio

Producer Bonnie Harrison joins Emile Donovan to debrief the week in quizzes. Read more Audio

Jack Barker, organiser of Robot Rampage and part of the team behind End Game, New Zealand’s world champion combat robot, speaks to Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

After 25 years as an automotive mechanic, Richard Hope transitioned into tertiary teaching in 2019. Since then, he has transformed his classroom into a supportive and empowering space for students of… Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Emile Donovan speaks to University of Otago consumer behaviour expert Professor Lisa McNeill. Read more Audio

8:45 PM.It's been about 2,600 since New Zealand's last large earthquake of magnitude six or more. Are we 'overdue'? Earthquake geologist Dr Rob Langridge joins Emile to explain. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.After nearly two years of chatting about language on the radio, Emile and Julia are meeting in person for the first time! Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Hornet-watcher Phil Lester is a professor of ecology and entomology at Victoria University of Wellington. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.The annual Plain Language Awards aim to fight back against that and highlight good examples of clear and easy-to-understand language. Founder Lynda Harris joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:10 PM.Science correspondent Ezzy Pearson talks about orcas that have developed a new way of hunting sharks, why men need to exercise more to get the same heart health benefits, and the worst fire in space. 

Former MP Peter Dunne — who visited Taiwan several times as an MP — says New Zealand's Chinese ambassador has “lost the plot” in warning MPs about celebrating Taiwan's national day. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.New Zealand-born, Australia-based artist Mike Hewson creates playgrounds that, at first glance, look more like construction sites than places to play. He joins Emile Donovan to explain his 'risk'… Read more Audio

8:45 PM.Jeremy Rees is the executive editor of specialist news at RNZ and a former editor of the Weekend Herald, NZ Herald website, and the Herald's head of news. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Greti Dinkova-Bruun is a Fellow and Library Director at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, and has been looking into medieval texts to find how frogs were depicted and used for… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.In the past seven years, the price of methamphetamine has dropped by 36 percent. In that same period, food prices have risen by about 37 percent. Writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.The best-selling licensed board game of all time was released 90 years ago, and chances are there's a Monopoly set tucked somewhere in your home, ready to start a family feud at a moment's notice. Read more Audio

8:50 PM.Tonight he's looking at the United Nations' latest report on global emissions of greenhouse gases, the escalating conflict in Sudan and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's visit to the White… Read more Audio

8:40 PM.With RNZ reporter Jamie Wall covering the All Blacks in Chicago, our sports correspondent tonight is sports writer and author of the weekly newsletter Sport Review, Richard Irvine. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Tonight she's talking about New Zealand's history with Guy Fawkes. Read more Audio