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10:30 PM.Touring 12 towns and cities across Aotearoa, Ballroom Blitz features twelve first-class dancers, a live five-piece band, and two live vocalists. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.This weekend, people will have the chance to view Vincent Ward's earliest surviving film Ma Olsen, which has been fully restored and digitised as part of a retrospective of his work at the Wairarapa… Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Around 85,000 people attended over 160 events at the Auckland Writers Fest - its biggest showing yet in its 25-year history. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.Australia's men's cricket team's triumphant tear in 2023 has been captured in a new documentary series, The Test. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Emile Donovan speaks to chief executive of Ngā Waihua o Paerangi Helen Leahy about the impact the project has had, with its long-term future uncertain. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Tyrone-Jay Barugh advertises his services through videos on TikTok wearing a bright pink suit, answers big questions like 'is it legal to drink a beer while driving', and gets into protracted legal… Read more Audio

9:50 PM.Living Streets Aotearoa are calling on the public to put forward people or projects that make their community a better place for pedestrians. Read more Audio

9:30 PM.RNZ political reporter Katie Scotcher joins Emile Donovan to discuss the scrapping of the First Home Grant. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Six percent of people are colour deficient. How can we tell whether the blue one person is seeing is the same as the next person? Read more Audio

10:45 PM.BBC World's Pete Ross joins Nights to talk about the latest on the situation in Iran, a decision expected on whether WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States and the… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.ODT sport reporter Kayla Hodge chats the all-female High Performance Sport NZ centre in Dunedin, a New Zealand paralympian shaping up well ahead of this years' Paralympics, and injuries mounting up in… Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Podcaster and business journalist Madison Reidy is the only local name on the prestigious list of up-and-comers in the Asia region. Read more Audio

9:30 PM.The myth of the 'silent world' beneath the waves is something Professor Craig Radford is trying to correct by recording the noises fish and marine mammals make. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Head of music at Newlands College in Wellington and chair of Mātauranga a Puoro o Aotearoa of Benjamin Lau talks to Emile Donovan about workshops being run during New Zealand music month encouraging… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Tonight, Finn has a selection of tracks from Los Angeles band 2070, UK psychedelic pop band duo Broadcast, and Tāmaki Makaurau anonymous avant-garde creative genius Donk Dobbo.  Read more Audio

10:18 PM.University of Canterbury researchers have been working with the New Zealand Alpine Club and Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua to address the issue of how mountaineers dispose of their waste when on Aoraki Mount… Read more Audio

9:40 PM.Nights' resident film critic Dan Slevin takes a look at The Way, My Way an autobiographical film about a journey of discovery, walking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, BlackBerry a comedy-drama… Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Down south, eight of the very best wrestlers in New Zealand will collide in a one night only tournament for the Battlelines Cup. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.David McBride has pleaded guilty to stealing and sharing military documents which he then leaked to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Professor of journalism at Macquarie University Peter… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Dr Warahi (Ngāti Maniapoto) has just recently completed his studies at the University of Auckland on the experiences of Māori caregivers. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Jodie Hope has just been named president of the New Zealand Embalmers Association, only the second woman to hold the position, and the first to lead an all-female executive. Read more Audio

9:50 PM.Two Paekākāriki locals want to bring a sauna to the local holiday park as a new community hub. Read more Audio

9:30 PM.Dario Nustrini has written a memoir on his six years in the New Zealand Army, including a stint in Iraq supporting the fight against terror group ISIS, before leaving it all behind in 2017. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.It's one of our most photographed natural attractions, but what lay beneath the surface of Lake Wānaka remained largely unknown until a mapping project from crown research institute NIWA. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.Auckland University's professor Neal Curtis says the term originates from African-American communities living through segregation and reflects upon how the term has since changed. Read more Audio