Nights

8:15 Pacific Waves

A daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world. Hosted by Susana Suisuiki.

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8:30 How to ride the markets during turbulent times

Those invested in the financial markets may be raising their eyebrows over their morning coffee these days.

Uncertainty due to the rollout of the US's tariffs has sent some people's shares in a spin.

Susannah Batley, the general manager of business at NZ trading platform Sharesies, joins Emile Donovan to explain.

8:45 The Reading

'Five of the Family' by David Hill as read by Nigel Collins. 

Jarred, isn't strictly speaking part of this family, and he knows it. Today he has vowed to himself to stay 'dry' for Joleen and the kids, and he's going to 'bloody well do it'.

9:07 Nights Quiz

Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Emile Donovan as he dons his quizmaster hat.

If you get an answer right, you move on to the next question. If you get it wrong, your time in the chair is up, and the next caller will be put through. The person with the most correct answers at the end of the run goes in the draw for a weekly prize.

9:25 Auckland Writers Festival returns for 2025

Last year the Auckland Writers Festival smashed all previous attendance records with over 85 thousand people turning out to listen to their favourite authors in conversation.

This year looks to be even bigger. 

Creative director Lyndsey Fineran joins Emile Donovan.

The 2025 Auckland Writers Festival features an eclectic lineup of local and international literary voices. Photo: Supplied

9:35 Midweek Mediawatch

Hayden Donnell joins Emile to talk about this week's media coverage of the latest political poll, the ongoing, goings on at NZME and print circulation numbers.  

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins. Photo: RNZ

10:17 Splitting intellectual property in a divorce

Marlborough artist Sirpa Alalääkkölä and her ex-husband Paul Palmer have spent five years in a legal battle over whether he owned half the rights to her work when they split.

Senior lecturer Joshua Yuvaraj from the University of Auckland explains why a new ruling by the Supreme Court of New Zealand has major implications for creators in New Zealand.

Photo: 123RF

10:30 The company that wants to see woolly mammoths roaming the earth by 2028

A team of scientists have achieved the first step in reviving the woolly mammoth: creating the woolly mouse.

It's a mouse whose genes have been edited to have the same curly, long hair that woolly mammoths had when they roamed the earth.

Colossal Biosciences is a Texas-based company looking to do the impossible, using ancient DNA for what they call "de-extinction". 

Beth Shapiro is an internationally renowned evolutionary biologist, a leader in the field of paleogenomics, and the chief science officer at Colossal Biosciences.

She joins Emile Donovan.

The genetically modified mice embody several woolly mammoth-like traits, according to Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences. Photo: Colossal Biosciences

11:07 Pocket Edition

On this week's Pocket Edition, Maggie Tweedie spotlights Lorina Harding, Ezra Collective, Jordan Rakei and Maribou State.