All episodes
Tuesday, 30 April 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: Why can't Kiwis pay to get bail?
- 9:45 Politics by Night with Thomas Manch
- 10:18 Kiwi ultramarathon runner aiming to break world record
- 10:30 Celebrating architecture in a fractured city
- 10:45 Beloved costume shop set to close its doors for good
Monday, 29 April 2024
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Justine Murray
- 9:30 Time ticking down for next nova explosion
- 10:17 Lifeline makes crisis call of its own
- 10:30 Sports with Kayla Hodge
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Pete Ross
Friday, 26 April 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: Guinea pigs galore in Waimauku
- 9:35 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 Pigeons pilfered in Wellington
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Wednesday, 24 April 2024
- 9:15 Is the customer base for big events vanishing?
- 10:18 What it takes to make a great movie poster
- 10:30 ANZAC Day: Ancestors memorialised in online cenotaph
- 10:45 Rolleston Brass keeps the ANZAC spirit alive
Tuesday, 23 April 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: Does peeing on lemon trees actually work?
- 9:30 Politics by Night with Dan Brunskill
- 10:18 Iconic Game Boy console turns 35
- 10:30 From Iron Maiden to New Plymouth: Sam Jay's sewing journey
- 10:45 Vera Ellen takes out the Taite Music Prize 2024
Monday, 22 April 2024
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Dr Hirini Kaa
- 9:40 Is it time to update our understanding of the universe? Some cosmologists think so
- 10:18 Ginette 'Lynn of Tawa' McDonald celebrated with new collection
- 10:30 Sports with Bryan Waddle
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Rich Preston
Friday, 19 April 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: Rotorua search for the ultimate Oma's Appeltaart
- 9:30 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:17 Update on Isfahan air strike
- 10:20 Two hundred year anniversary of poet Lord Byron's death
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 18 April 2024
- 9:15 I Was There When: Mount Ruapehu erupted
- 9:30 Why more New Zealanders are reading romance novels
- 10:17 Pillar 2 of AUKUS - should we, or shouldn't we?
- 10:30 New book details New Zealand's military and social history
- 10:45 ‘Health Sensation’ food blogger shares cheap eats
Wednesday, 17 April 2024
- 9:15 The challenges of collecting data
- 9:30 Midweek Mediawatch
- 10:17 NZ developed video game to hit the big screen
- 10:30 Explainer: How to become an art collector
- 10:45 How AI can help you be funnier
Tuesday, 16 April 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: Why do we switch our phones to airplane mode?
- 9:30 Politics by Night with Marc Daalder
- 9:50 'Black gold': Why NZ grown black garlic is in high demand
- 10:17 Defamation laws under spotlight after high profile Australian trial
- 10:30 Making it up on the spot with Joe Bill
Monday, 15 April 2024
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Julian Wilcox
- 9:30 The quantum science where Aotearoa is lightyears ahead
- 10:18 Australian icon Priscilla uncovered 30 years after 'disappearing'
- 10:30 Sports with Jamie Wall
- 10:45 BBC World lookahead with Rich Preston
Friday, 12 April 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: National Scrabble Day
- 9:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:17 The volunteers fixing up Christchurch's broken bicycles
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 11 April 2024
- 9:15 I Was There When: The Ngāi Tahu claim was settled
- 9:35 How to read a poem
- 10:17 Update on West Coast heavy rain
- 10:18 Raw deal for fake meat brands
- 10:35 Kiwi axe thrower hurtling towards World Champs
- 10:45 What do youth councils do?
Wednesday, 10 April 2024
- 9:15 Myth Takes: Prophecies in ancient Greece
- 10:17 MetService update on heavy rain on the West Coast
- 10:18 Song lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive, study shows
- 10:30 What time is it on the moon?
- 10:45 Street artist Paul X Walsh
Tuesday, 9 April 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: What's the difference between hand soap and dish soap?
- 9:30 Politics by Night with Amelia Wade
- 9:50 New crime novel traverses mystery and death in the Southern Alps
- 10:17 TVNZ confirms shuttering of Fair Go, Midday and Tonight
- 10:30 Horror icon 'Carrie' celebrates 50 blood-soaked years
- 10:45 Palmerston North rubbish-handlers save recyclables from landfill
Monday, 8 April 2024
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Mihingarangi Forbes
- 9:30 How colour was understood in pre-colonial New Zealand
- 9:55 Mongol Derby: Kiwi woman attempting world's toughest horse race
- 10:18 The gift of life: New Zealand's bone marrow registry
- 10:35 Sports with Bryan Waddle
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Pete Ross
Friday, 5 April 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: Bee-themed cuisine in Tauranga
- 9:35 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:18 Pacific leaders call for whales to receive legal personhood
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 4 April 2024
- 9:15 I Was There When: Christchurch held the world's first Gnome Convention
- 9:30 Instadate: A speed dating service for Cantabrians 'over the apps'
- 9:45 Movies return to Raetihi's beloved Royal Theatre
- 10:18 Who invented the flat white?
- 10:30 How to avoid daylight savings wreaking havoc on your sleep cycle
- 10:45 Dunedin man running 600km from Milford Sound to home
Wednesday, 3 April 2024
- 9:15 Agony Aunt: 'I'm a chronic rubbish-hider'
- 10:18 Taiwan earthquake: Correspondent William Yang
- 10:20 Historic oral diaries from NZ prime ministers abruptly ended
- 10:45 Citizen scientists asked to get their cameras out this April
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: Why is it so important to cook chicken properly?
- 9:30 Politics by Night with Anna Whyte
- 9:45 What lived experience adds when working in the addiction field
- 10:18 The Kiwi rolling out the World Marbles Champs
- 10:30 From Speyside to Reefton: Scotch whisky expert Gareth Morgan
- 10:45 What workplace kitchens say about office culture
Thursday, 28 March 2024
- 9:15 I Was There When: The Wellington Trades Hall bombing
- 9:35 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:30 'That's so last century': A look back at fashion in Aotearoa
- 10:45 'Tally ho tweeders!': Cyclists swap lycra for tweed
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
- 9:15 Call goes out for writers for Scotland residency
- 9:35 Midweek Mediawatch
- 10:17 How are New Zealand couples navigating working from home, together?
- 10:30 'The oldest national netball body in the world': Netball NZ turns 100
- 10:45 Iconic cereal brands set to go
Tuesday, 26 March 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: Why do we still need witnesses at weddings?
- 9:30 Nights Politics
- 10:17 Wellington's 'Tuesday Night Dinners' celebrates 25 years
- 10:45 New book marks 50 years of windsurfing in New Zealand
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