It's a special night for skinnydippers.. they've been skinny-dipping down a moonbeam this evening. Or trying to... The full moon was at 8:16pm this evening and the New Zealand Nature-ist Federation are going natural out there tonight at beaches and rivers... urging us to "cast off our clotehes and swim in the shimmering light the moon casts along the water as it rises above the horizon and breaks through the clouds... " Tonight on Lately I'm talking to someone I know quite well, Andrew Fagan from the Mockers whose on a whistlestop tour of the country ... and we'll be crossing to London to Monocle Magazine to talk to their culture editor Robert Bound about... culture..

New sounds from old tech The Auckland commute in the spotlight. 20 Something

In the programme tonight An iconic Auckland music venue is closing its doors for good tonight. 4G on the moon and recycling with Boomerang Bags

In Lately tonight Karyn Hay discusses the new National Party leadership, gets schooled in the pleasures and perils of the horror movie genre and talks protest with Penny Bright.

In Lately tonight Karyn Hay talks regulation and self-regulation online, vertical gardening and Karen McKenzie from NZ Booklovers has been reading Lyndon Kelly's new book Crystal Reign.

Kapa Haka and Yadana Saw Comedian Rhys Nicholson on Barnaby Joyce Resignation Monocle Interview

tonight we look at one rule for the rich and one for the poor, Queenstown Lakes District Council wants luxury homes to be exempt from the Government's foreign ownership ban...we'll chat to Sir Eion Edgar about that: he's a supporter of the idea... We'll talk about Trump and guns in schools ...to Professor Kevin Clements who is the Chair of The National Centre For Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago.. Jenny Marshall from Love Food Hate Waste will drop into the programme and we'll play some great new music from some great women... Bjork and PJ Harvey.. and it's not as scary as it sounds...

tonight we look at the death of the local newspaper, talk about rahui and what the word means, chat to a young man who is very good at physics and ... that should be that..

Tonight it really is all about the weather and Cyclone GITA.

A brief look at where Cyclone Gita is at; we hear from a man who is in the path of the cyclone and see what he's doing in order to be prepared; some new music from Ezra Furman, and local band French For Rabbits.. lapin?; Karen from NZ Booklovers talks books; and find out about Voxpop the RNZ app where you can talk to Karyn and each other on air.