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8:10 PM.University of Waikato Senior Lecturer of Ecology, Biodiversity and Animal Behaviour Dr Ang McGaughran joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Mathias Clasen, associate professor and director of the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University in Denmark is a horror researcher., and he joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:45 PM.Dev Singh from the University of Auckland's Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering school.joins Emile Donovan to explain. Read more Audio

8:35 PM.Julia Jones is an independent advisor in ag industry and joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.Sam Elton-Walters from Giant Pumpkins NZ joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Sam Sachdeva is the national affairs editor at Newsroom dot co dot nz and is on the ground in Korea. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Detective Inspector Chris Cahill served as president of the New Zealand Police Association for nine years, from 2016 to 2025. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.Lloyd Smith has been competing in dog trials since the 1970s and joins Emile Donovan from his farm near Palmerston in Otago Read more Audio

8:10 PM.We are joined by two experts who come down on different sides of the issue, clinical psychologist Dr Danielle Einstein and media lecturer Dr Alex Beattie. Read more Audio

9:45 PM.Reuben Munn has been a pastor for twenty years and joins Emile Donovan to explain. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Jenny Dagg is a sociologist and researcher at Maynooth University in Ireland and wrote the cost-benefit analysis for the scheme. She joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Christian Smith joins Emile Donovan to discuss news making headlines in Europe. Read more Audio

8:20 PM.Economist Ed McKnight has crunched the numbers and built a calculator that can tell you. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Tax expert Terry Baucher joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music Read more Audio

8:40 PM.Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan with some viewing recommendations for your long weekend. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.The author is historian, columnist, and former Invercargill city councillor Lloyd Esler, who joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:25 PM.Lorenzo Antinori from Bar Leone in Hong Kong joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Susan Mudie is the Rainbow's End CEO and she joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Sir Nick Gibb oversaw a dramatic turnaround in England's school reading and maths performance during his tenure as schools minister through the rollback of 'progressivist' practice and a renewed focus… Read more Audio

Tonight, Dan takes on perhaps the ultimate question in Western philosophy: if God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-beneficent, how can there be so much suffering in the world? Read more Audio

8:20 PM.In the proposed high school curriculum, home economics would cease to be a stand-alone subject and instead be taught within health. Home economics teacher Tina Williams joins Emile Donovan. Read more Audio

8:10 PM.We speak to RNZ journalist Lauren Crimp about the latest on the wild weather which hit much of the country today. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.What is his secret? How has he stayed at the top for so long, Flinders University sports scientist Dr Dylan Hicks joins Emile Donovan to explain. Read more Audio

9:10 PM.Tonight, the 2025 Ig Nobel winners, does a mother eating garlic change the smell of their breast milk, and how physics can help cook the perfect pasta sauce. Read more Audio