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10:30 PM.With opaque algorithms, and pricey membership schemes, do dating apps really have users' best interests at heart? Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Richard Edwards was just at the Sydney International Electric Vehicle show where he got a preview of vehicle models, many manufactured by Chinese companies, which will very likely be seen on New… Read more Audio

9:30 PM.Artist Pete Majendie’s work 185 Empty White Chairs stood in Christchurch for over a decade honouring those who died in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Now, he's released a memoir. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.The Spinoff's Wellington editor Joel MacManus has just travelled the length of the country — from Oban on Stewart Island to the North of the North — using only public transport. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.Ken Looi's world record for 24-hour unicycling was broken in 2007. This weekend, he's attempting to get it back. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.A Frenchman called Theo is estimated to have made over $85 million US after placing bets on President Trump ultimately triumphing over Kamala Harris. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Wellington start-up OpenStar has achieved a nuclear fusion breakthrough, being the first New Zealand company ever to turn on a fusion machine. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Classics educator and enthusiast Ben Jackson presents a pantheon of dictators and despots, including Nero, Caligula, and a bloke called Draco. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Professor Nigel Biggar is an ethicist and theologian at the University of Oxford whose experience being 'cancelled' for an opinion piece on Britain's imperial history led to him championing the UK's… Read more Audio

9:30 PM.Emile Donovan chats to interest.co.nz reporter Dan Brunskill to talk about all the big political news from the week. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Dr Rosie Gibson from the Sleep/Wake Research Centre discusses dream characters, lucid dreaming, and whether everyone dreams. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.BBC World reporter Rob Hugh-Jones joins Emile Donovan and takes a look at some of the events making headlines internationally, including the latest United Nations conference on tackling climate… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Otago Daily Times sports reporter Kayla Hodge joins Emile Donovan to talk All Blacks, Fast5 netball, and tomorrow's Super Rugby squad announcements. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Leo Puglisi started his online news channel 6 News at the age of 11, and now has an online audience in the tens of thousands, interviewing juggernauts like Australian prime ministers Scott Morrison… Read more Audio

9:30 PM.They've been around for millennia. Today, fences zigzag every continent, marking property, keeping livestock in, and keeping pests out. But much of their impact on wildlife is still mysterious. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Dr Reuben Collier is the lead researcher on a Marsden-funded project exploring the nuances of Māori dialects with a particular emphasis on the Tūhoe dialect. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Tonight, a track from Portland spiritual jazz band The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, futuristic Istanbul rock’n roll outfit BaBa ZuLa, and local club night producers Lerm Werld. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Young people are finding themselves pitted against hundreds of other applicants for entry-level positions. Read more Audio

9:40 PM.Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to review French film Suddenly (2024), two music documentaries, and Saving Private Ryan (1998) streaming on TVNZ+. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Gladstone, a 15-minute drive from Carterton in Wairarapa, is putting on its annual Scarecrow's Big Day Out, where locals and school kids make their own scarecrows to line the school fence, culminating… Read more Audio

10:45 PM.Josh Currie sells hand-drawn illustrations of houses, including requests from people whose much-loved homes were lost to tragedies like housefires or the Christchurch earthquakes. Read more Audio, Gallery

10:30 PM.A programme in Gaza is trying to vaccinate 100,000 children against polio after it was detected there for the first time in 25 years. Though largely eradicated around the world, thousands of Kiwis are… Read more Audio

10:18 PM.New Zealand producers, exporters and trade negotiators will be anxiously waiting to see if president-elect Donald Trump carries through with his pledge to hit all imports into the US with a 10 to 20… Read more Audio

9:35 PM.The Royal Free follows recently bereaved medical journal editor James Ballard, as the mundane world of misplaced apostrophes collides with a civil society on the brink of chaos. Read more Audio

9:15 PM.David Cohen (no relation) is the author of Book of Cohen which is the the story of a "famous singer and his not-so-famous lifelong New Zealand fan". Read more Audio