All episodes
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: How are Black Friday sales profitable?
- 9:30 Politics by Night with Laura Walters
- 10:18 David Farrar pays tribute to his friend former National MP Nikki Kaye
- 10:30 Superstitions have long been debunked, but why do we still believe them?
- 10:45 Brown gold: New Zealand to host largest-ever soil competition
Monday, 25 November 2024
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Holly Beckham
- 9:30 Why do we not all like the same flavours?
- 10:18 How Bluefields could transform New Zealand's public housing
- 10:30 Sports with Bryan Waddle
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin
Friday, 22 November 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: The New Zealand Pub Quiz Championships
- 9:30 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 Laser tag players converge on Auckland for World Champs
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 21 November 2024
- 9:30 A distinctively New Zealand approach to challenging stigma
- 9:35 'Richie Benaud's Blue Suede Shoes': Book details famous Aussie victory
- 10:17 Should sports stars be held up as role models?
- 10:40 Banana art sells for US$6.2m at Sotheby's in New York
- 10:45 The story behind Mataura's 21-year wait for town signs
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
- 9:15 What we can learn from Census' gone by
- 10:18 What next for small towns facing job losses?
- 10:30 Literacy programme plans expansion
- 10:45 Kiwi scrabble team celebrates underdog win in trans-Tasman battle
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: Can you make tea out of anything?
- 9:30 Nights Politics with Thomas Coughlan
- 10:17 Should the Christchurch terrorist's lawyers get name suppression?
- 10:30 Comedian Sam Smith on why small talk is so hard
- 10:45 The million-dollar banana pushing artistic boundaries
Monday, 18 November 2024
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Dale Husband
- 9:30 How forever chemicals get the name
- 10:18 New Zealand braces for bird flu
- 10:30 Sports with Richard Irvine
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Pete Ross
Friday, 15 November 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: International Men's Day in Nelson
- 9:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 Mike Tyson v Jake Paul set to be 'trainwreck TV'
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 14 November 2024
- 9:15 Joel MacManus' longest commute
- 9:30 Pete Majendie on deafness, tea, and being part of Christchurch's story
- 10:18 What's going on with our EV market?
- 10:30 Are dating apps aggravating our loneliness crisis?
- 10:45 The Rainbow Warrior's last voyage
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
- 9:15 Myth Takes: Dictators and despots
- 10:18 New Zealand leading the way in nuclear fusion?
- 10:30 What are betting markets and are they more accurate than polling?
- 10:45 The Wellington GP trying to break a unicycle world record
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: What are dreams?
- 9:30 Politics by Night with Dan Brunskill
- 10:18 The future of free speech in the social media era
Monday, 11 November 2024
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Dr Reuben Collier
- 9:30 How fences shape the living world
- 10:18 A teenage social media star on Australia's plan to ban social media for under-16s
- 10:30 Sports with Kayla Hodge
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Rob Hugh-Jones
Friday, 8 November 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: Scarecrow's Big Day Out
- 9:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 Students struggling to find summer jobs
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 7 November 2024
- 9:15 Celebrating Leonard Cohen eight years after his death
- 9:35 Carl Shuker tackles death and copy editing in new novel
- 10:18 Tariffs are coming, so what does that mean for our exporters?
- 10:30 Polio: The disease that doesn't go away
- 10:45 Architecture graduate turned illustrator celebrates beauty of New Zealand houses
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
- 10:18 The state of play as Election Day in the US comes to an end
- 10:30 Cooking in the coldest environment on earth
- 10:45 Dunedin sports fan's lifelong dream set to become a reality
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: How do you judge a book by its cover?
- 9:40 Politics by Night US Presidential special with Laura Walters
- 10:18 Prostate cancer roadshow hits the tarmac
- 10:30 The chemistry behind big fireworks displays
- 10:45 New Zealand's first boat register launches
Monday, 4 November 2024
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Airana Ngarewa
- 9:30 The scientists who make TV and movie come to life
- 10:18 Mike Grimshaw: Some New Zealand university students "functionally illiterate"
- 10:30 Sports with Jamie Wall
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Pete Ross
Friday, 1 November 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: The Gisborne CBD Spring Clean
- 9:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 New Zealand's first football derby set to kick off
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
- 11:06 Why student radio is still special
Thursday, 31 October 2024
- 9:15 Philosophy Now: Will technology really save us?
- 9:40 The 3,000-year old Celtic festival behind Halloween
- 10:18 Banning hateful symbols and salutes
- 10:30 New podcast investigates billion dollar Kiwi supplement company
- 10:50 From Taieri to NASA: Our unique cloud formation
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
- 9:15 Our Changing World's Claire Concannon
- 10:18 New Zealand losing its religion, census data shows
- 10:30 The challenge of delivering rural dental care
- 10:45 Dunedin gets its own Monopoly board
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: Why are there so many ways to sell a house?
- 9:40 Politics by Night with Dan Brunskill
- 10:18 The importance of court interpreters and why they're not just translating
- 10:30 How solar panels in schools could build the country's largest virtual power plant
- 10:45 The search for a family heirloom lost for nearly 40 years
Friday, 25 October 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: Raglan Art Weekend
- 9:35 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 Long-lost story by author of Dracula rediscovered 130 years later
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 24 October 2024
- 9:15 Why we love to hate Americanisms
- 9:40 Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure: The grunge club scene in provincial UK
- 10:18 The contrasting fortunes of Tory Whanau and Wayne Brown
- 10:30 The film festival aiming to terrify its audience
- 10:45 Free fish for a good cause
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
- 9:15 Giving an outlet and voice to youth with disabilities
- 9:30 Midweek Mediawatch: Sweating the small stuff
- 10:18 New Zealand in desperate need of licensing regime for the breeding of pets
- 10:30 New study into rock climbers' unique psychology
- 10:45 Kiwi-made card game Getting Lost wins big
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: Why is gluten intolerance so common now?
- 9:45 Politics by Night with Thomas Coughlan
- 10:18 More physician associates not the answer, GP association says
- 10:30 Superstar food blogger Nagi Maehashi on her new cookbook
- 10:45 How cricket is keeping hope alive in Ukraine
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