New research on emotions - where they come from, renewed hope of locating the wreckage of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH-370 & in Dateline Pacific Samoa's prime minister supports a limit on foreign business.

A landmark study into Anorexia; the Norfolk pine at the centre of a row in Northland; and in Dateline Pacific why Samoa's prime minister isn't helping the media with their police enquiries.

The unlikely friendship of Queen Victoria and the young Muslim Abdul Karim and park and ride, is driving to the station the best way to catch the train?

Remembering Sir Colin Meads; no Dunne deal in Ohariu this year; and in Dateline Pacific free condoms are to be offered in Fiji hotspots aim to reduce STDs.

Chopping - it's a serious business in a Norwegian wood; taking the pulse of the nation in Whangarei; and in Dateline Pacific the problem with Chinese gravel in Vanuatu.

The far north in focus the vet who deals with cold cases in animals - once she's defrosted them and House covers the final session this parliament

The search for the Morrinsville gunman goes nationwide Lloyd Scott back on the radio and in Dateline Pacific breaking Papua New Guinea's dependence on mining and forestry

Super bugs and wiorking from home..

In the programme tonight, the government's plans for mental health services; remembering the TV soap Gloss - this country's answer to Dallas - sort of, and in Dateline Pacific, getting rid of old bombs in Palau.

You're listening to Nights on RNZ National and this is Late Edition....in the programme tonight getting up close and personal with spiders a comedian's battle with his own body and in dateline pacific manus island detainees resist removal