All episodes
Tuesday, 29 April 2025
- 8:30 Meraki 2: NZ's first amateur rocket to reach space
- 9:25 Preserving Vasa: the large Swedish warship
- 9:35 Shower Thoughts: How are animals trained for the movies?
- 10:17 Tory Whanau bows out of re-election bid
- 10:30 Liberals win Canadian Election - what now?
- 10:45 Vegan Chocolate Awards
Monday, 28 April 2025
- 8:30 US Marines remembered on Kapiti Coast
- 9:25 Whakataukī of the Week with Joe McLeod
- 9:35 The science behind Taddy the robot fish
- 10:17 Fixing our truancy crisis
- 10:30 Sports with Bryan Waddle
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Rob Hugh-Jones
Thursday, 24 April 2025
- 8:30 This Weekend: Anzac Weekend Guinea Pig Show
- 9:25 What is gesture? Nights expert Dr Julia de Bres explains
- 9:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:17 Historian Jock Phillips on War Memorials
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
- 8:30 Etiquette for audience participation at the movies
- 9:25 Our Changing World's Claire Concannon
- 10:17 New resource aims to gather data from rugby players on CTE brain disease
- 10:30 The Illegals' Shaun Walker
Tuesday, 22 April 2025
- 8:30 Buy fish, avoid pigs: How to buy wine based on the label
- 9:25 A whole, deep fried feijoa
- 9:35 Shower Thoughts: Why are we ticklish?
- 10:18 What happens after the death of the Pope
- 10:30 Books in books: When fictional characters are readers
- 10:45 Sports with Richard Irvine
Thursday, 17 April 2025
- 8:06 Mark Lundy to be released on parole after serving 23 years
- 8:30 The latest on Cyclone Tam
- 9:25 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 9:40 The Reread with Paula Morris
- 10:18 Update on Cyclone Tam with Far North mayor Moko Tepania
- 10:25 The evacuation of our libraries and museums in WWII
- 10:40 Have we found life on another planet?
Wednesday, 16 April 2025
- 8:30 MetService update on Cyclone Tam
- 10:18 Cyclone Tam: Far North mayor Moko Tepania
- 10:25 Fears a proposed law change could affect NZ's biggest class action
- 10:40 Incredibly popular Gallipoli exhibition to continue on until 2032
- 10:50 World-first footage of the colossal squid released
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
- 8:30 How many tests should it take to drive a car?
- 9:25 MOKOTRON takes out Taite Music Prize 2025
- 9:35 Shower Thoughts: Why do we lose our accents when we sing?
- 10:18 Former prisoners facing obstacles to banking, report shows
- 10:30 The life and times of New Zealand journalist Douglas Brass
- 10:45 Bus stop sonata: Is this how to solve antisocial behaviour?
Monday, 14 April 2025
- 8:30 Solar-powered street furniture
- 9:25 Whakataukī of the Week with Jordyn with a Why
- 9:35 The origins of breakfast, lunch and dinner
- 10:18 On the ground in Ukraine with ReliefAid
- 10:30 Sports with Bryan Waddle
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Pete Ross
Friday, 11 April 2025
- 8:30 The Weekend
- 9:35 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 New Zealand to Celebrate National Veterans' Day
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johannson
Thursday, 10 April 2025
- 8:30 Hutt City mayor Campbell Barry leaving local politics after 15 years
- 9:25 Philosophy Now: Free will
- 9:40 Monsters and the human condition
- 10:17 The death of the Treaty Principles Bill
- 10:30 Q+A host Patricia Karvelas: Australian federal election
- 10:45 Playing the carrot with the London Vegetable Orchestra
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
- 8:30 Is this the world's largest collection of Robert Muldoon memorabilia?
- 10:18 A win for farmers: Wool to be used in new government builds and renovations
- 10:30 Heath Franklin on returning to NZ and 20 years of 'Chopper'
- 10:45 Thousands of items made from endangered species confiscated at the border
Tuesday, 8 April 2025
- 8:30 Band on the move
- 9:25 Nights at the Museum: British Lawnmower Museum
- 9:35 Shower Thoughts: Can your muscles actually twist into knots?
- 10:17 One of Labour's most senior MPs calls it quits
- 10:30 New Zealand's first beekeeper
- 10:45 How do tornadoes form?
Monday, 7 April 2025
- 8:30 The tie is back and not just for men
- 8:40 Sensible satire?
- 9:25 Whakataukī of the Week with Jacinta Ruru
- 9:35 Fluoride with Sir Peter Gluckman
- 10:18 How New Zealand can pivot under Trump's tariffs
- 10:30 Sports with Richard Irvine
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Rob Hugh-Jones
Friday, 4 April 2025
- 8:30 This Weekend: Feastock
- 9:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 Norfolk Island: Population 2,000, tariff 29 percent
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 3 April 2025
- 8:30 Move over Hollywood, it's Huntlywood's time to shine
- 9:25 Myth Takes: Ruins
- 9:35 Wellington takes a dystopic turn in new novel
- 10:18 President Trump's tariffs are here, is it all bad news?
- 10:30 Kiwi composer gets Laurence Olivier nod
- 10:50 The hunt for the Kiwi-made Trolls
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
- 8:30 What to do if you regret your career
- 9:25 What can writers do about their work being used to train AI models?
- 10:18 Does New Zealand's geography cause higher supermarket prices?
- 10:35 Why waste is an integral part of the human story
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
- 8:30 Capital punishment? Why Gen-Z loves lowercase
- 9:25 High-end menswear brand still strutting stuff 40 years later
- 9:35 Shower Thoughts: Why do we cook food?
- 10:17 Much ado about teaching
- 10:30 How to talk about death
- 10:40 April Fools pranks through the years
Monday, 31 March 2025
- 8:30 What's behind our distrust of the government and media?
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Madeleine Hakaraia de Young
- 9:35 Science: How our estuaries are under threat from heat waves
- 10:17 Civil war and heat waves hinder Myanmar earthquake recovery
- 10:30 Sports with Jamie Wall
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Pete Ross
Friday, 28 March 2025
- 8:30 This Weekend: Australia & New Zealand Taiko Conference
- 9:35 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:17 The return of Camp A Low Hum festival
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 27 March 2025
- 8:30 What makes a good boozer: New Zealand's best gastropub
- 9:25 The Royal Order of Adjectives with Julia de Bres
- 9:35 Stringing together generations of chamber musicians
- 10:18 Could a government group chat gaffe happen in New Zealand?
- 10:30 Should police have more powers to control protests?
- 10:45 The rise and fall of cargo ship travel
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
- 8:30 What students say makes a good teacher
- 9:25 Our Changing World's Claire Concannon
- 10:18 Flaws in the plan for roadside drug testing, says civil liberties group
- 10:30 Prison architect Yvonne Jewkes: Why design matters
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
- 8:30 Is gold the new gold?
- 9:25 Rhys Darby: The Legend Returns
- 9:35 Shower Thoughts: Why do we remember what we remember?
- 10:18 North Island set to lose under proposed electorate changes
- 10:30 Daring rescue in the heart of Kaimai Ranges honoured
- 10:45 The $750,000 job in the Aussie Outback
Monday, 24 March 2025
- 8:30 Early Goldie sells for $89,625
- 9:25 Whakataukī of the Week with Rob Mokaraka
- 9:35 Sports science: How we keep getting faster, stronger, better
- 10:18 What did the Prime Minister achieve in India? And what happens now?
- 10:30 Sports with Bryan Waddle
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin
Tune in to Nights every weekday from 8pm to midnight for a delectable buffet of creative ideas, open-minded conversations, music, musings and daily stimulation.
Monday - Friday, 8:00pm - 12:00am (midnight)
Follow this podcast.
Text 2101 (texts cost 20 cents)
Email nights@rnz.co.nz
Post to Nights
RNZ National
PO Box 123
Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Get the latest episode of The Reading here
