All episodes
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
- 8:30 The art of the 'blurb'
- 9:25 Tech Talk with Finn Hogan
- 9:35 Shower Thoughts: Why do different countries use different shaped electrical sockets?
- 10:17 How a 'managed retreat' could be the answer to woes
- 10:30 Who were the big winners at the Halberg Awards?
- 10:45 Exhibition focuses on four generations of women photographers
Monday, 17 February 2025
- 8:30 Free speech union labels Destiny Church protest 'thug's veto'
- 9:25 Whakataukī of the Week with Tuakoi Ohia
- 9:25 The science of hair restoration
- 10:17 What you need to know about the Daman Kumar deportation case
- 10:30 Sports chat with Jamie Wall
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Pete Ross
Thursday, 13 February 2025
- 8:30 Going Underground!
- 9:25 Philosophy Now with Dan Weijers
- 9:40 Te Radar’s Cookbookery
- 10:18 What’s it like being young in New Zealand?
- 10:30 Queer Elders lending an ear to our rainbow community
- 10:45 Right to Repair Bill to get first Parliament reading
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
- 8:30 A weekend of Jazz in Aotea Square
- 9:25 The dying art of gig photography
- 9:30 Midweek Mediawatch
- 10:15 What is the environmental impact of sand mining?
- 10:30 Christ's College marks 175th anniversary
Tuesday, 11 February 2025
- 8:30 Are the days of the humble coin numbered?
- 9:25 Tech Talk with Finn Hogan
- 9:35 Shower Thoughts: Why do humans cry?
- 10:17 Long-time victim advocate now NZ's chief victims adviser
- 10:30 All Blacks vs the billionaire
- 10:45 Motu Move transport finally on the horizon
Monday, 10 February 2025
- 8:30 Another bad poll for the Government
- 9:25 Whakataukī of the Week with Roimata Smail
- 9:35 Nights Science: Debunking myths around early human hunters
- 9:55 Mr Bear New Zealand 2025 crowned
- 10:17 Pacific Diplomacy - The China effect and can NZ do better?
- 10:30 Sports with Bryan Waddle
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin
Friday, 7 February 2025
- 9:15 This Weekend: Medieval Market Levin celebrates 30 years
- 9:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 NASA: 1 in 43 chance asteroid hits earth in 2032
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Wednesday, 5 February 2025
- 8:30 What is Padel? The world's fastest growing sport
- 9:15 Myth Takes: Homer's Odyssey
- 10:18 Unemployment continues to grow but who's bearing the brunt?
- 10:30 Bringing the Nordic sound to Aotearoa
- 10:45 Memory of Grace Millane helping women escaping domestic violence
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
- 8:30 Final flyover for Airforce Hercules brings back memories
- 9:25 Tech with Finn Hogan
- 9:25 Tech with Finn Hogan
- 9:35 Shower Thoughts: What happens to lost luggage?
- 9:35 Shower Thoughts: What happens to lost luggage?
- 10:17 New poll places Labour slightly ahead of National
- 10:30 Dunedin takes a cheeky approach to new marketing campaign
- 10:45 Giving people with disabilities the opportunity to run wild
Monday, 3 February 2025
- 8:30 Gen AI image used for cover of Wellington's Yellow Pages
- 9:25 Whakataukī of the Week with Professor Deidre Brown
- 9:35 How the brain experiences dementia
- 10:18 What actually is a tariff and how does it work?
- 10:30 Sports with Richard Irvine
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Rob Hugh-Jones
Friday, 31 January 2025
- 9:15 This Weekend: Degustation BBQ competition in Christchurch
- 9:35 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 New hospital build to go ahead with reduced beds
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 30 January 2025
- 8:30 Pressure on coffee sector as international coffee prices soar
- 9:25 Why do we use phrases referencing old technology?
- 9:35 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Long List announced - who made the cut?
- 9:50 What's behind the namimg of ships? A historian explains
- 10:17 The case for and against four-year government terms
- 10:30 Wētā FX animator on Oscar nominations
Wednesday, 29 January 2025
- 8:30 The curly questions around salary negotiation
- 9:25 Our Changing World's Claire Concannon
- 10:17 The case for slowing down on speed limits
- 10:30 'Enshittifaction' Why everything is getting worse
Tuesday, 28 January 2025
- 8:30 Millions feast eyes on world's smelliest flower
- 9:25 Talking tech with Finn Hogan
- 9:35 Shower Thoughts: How do chocolate flavours get invented?
- 10:18 Fonterra caught up in dairy product panic
- 10:30 CIA finds Covid 'more likely' to have originated in a Chinese lab
- 10:45 Monarch butterflies not getting the royal treatment in NZ
Monday, 27 January 2025
- 9:25 Whakataukī of the week with Johnson Witehira
- 9:35 The science of antivenom
- 10:18 Cambridge exams on the rise as NCEA declines
- 10:30 Sports with Jamie Wall
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin
Friday, 20 December 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: Christmas karaoke in Auckland
- 9:30 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:17 Universe 'lumpier' than originally thought, research shows
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 19 December 2024
- 9:15 Best books of 2024
- 9:40 The Galápagos Postman: Hand delivering 50 letters around the globe
- 10:18 Rescue effort continues in Vanuatu
- 10:30 The Kiwi musician taking Chinese social media by storm
- 10:45 Keeping young party-goers safe over summer
Wednesday, 18 December 2024
- 9:15 Update on Vanuatu earthquake
- 10:18 Why are people suddenly seeing drones everywhere?
- 10:30 The animated story of a cat that has captured the world's hearts
- 10:45 What is GDP?
Tuesday, 17 December 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: How do you turn a black and white photo into colour?
- 9:30 Politics by Night with Laura Walters
- 9:50 North Island bird deaths not linked to bird flu
- 10:18 What's going on under the ground in Vanuatu?
- 10:30 World's rebel women motorcyclists celebrated in new photography book
- 10:50 Rare pounamu sold legally for the first time
Monday, 16 December 2024
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- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Henare O'Keefe
- 9:30 Will 2025 be the year of the cancer vaccine?
- 10:18 How many jobs have really been lost in Wellington this year?
- 10:30 Sports with Richard Irvine
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Pete Ross
Friday, 13 December 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: A Balkan Christmas in Christchurch
- 9:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 Dunedin regains world's steepest street title
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 12 December 2024
- 9:15 FIFA 2034 already attracting sportswashing claims
- 9:35 A 25-year legacy: How The Blair Witch Project changed the horror genre
- 10:18 How do liquidations work?
- 10:30 The problems of breaking up a household when you're not married
- 10:45 Largest ever gathering of mathematicians in New Zealand held this week
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
- 9:15 Myth Takes: Festivals
- 10:18 Gas discovery in Taranaki
- 10:30 Celebrating International Day of the Tango
- 10:40 Is the age of the "moviestar" over?
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