Nights

Finn Johansson joins us with an array of eclectic music.

A Massey University student's re-engineered athlete drug testing kit has gained him well-deserved recognition. Nick Holland is already the UK winner of the James Dyson Award and will now go up against global competition with a chance to win $57,000. Nick Holland joins us.

We discuss the Terror-Film Festival which is already happening in Wellington and will soon thrill audiences in Auckland and Christchurch. Simone: Woman of the Century is biopic of French stateswoman and politician Simone Veil. SISU is a Finnish WWII movie about a gold prospector who takes on the German army. Our resident film expert Dan Slevin talks to Mark.

On Sunday, the All Blacks take on the Springbok for a chance to win their fourth Rugby World Cup. Defending champions South Africa stand in their way. RNZ's Joe Porter is in France.

We discuss episodes from four podcasts, including award-winning investigative podcast Bed of Lies presented by Carla McGoogan, and Spirituality, which delves into new-age cults. There's a look at The Climate Change Deniers Podcast, while our reviewer Lynn Freeman delves into an episode of James Acaster and Ed Gamble's Off Menu podcast which has Florence Pugh as a guest.

Archaeologists in Scotland have uncovered a 5,000-year-old Neolithic tomb on the isle of Orkney. The site was thought to be lost forever - but once located archaeologists found 14 carefully laid out skeletons of men, women and children. Excavation leader Dr Anderson-Whymark from National Museums Scotland talks to Mark Leishman about the "incredible excitement" as the team removed the topsoil.

Invercargill has long been home to a group of tuatara, ranging from juveniles to perhaps Invercargill's most famous resident of all, Henry - aged somewhere between 100 and 150 years old. And this week they've been their six-monthly health checks - known around the council offices as their 'Plunket checks. Mark Leishman talks to Caroline Rain and Kate Gough about what goes into a tuatara health checkup.

Across the world the Right to Repair movement is gaining movement with several countries and jurisdiction establishing the right to repair, albeit to varying degrees, damaged consumer goods. However here in New Zealand similar legislation does not yet exist or has even been proposed. Trish O'Sullivan from Massey University has looked into why that is and talks to Mark Leishman about what steps could be taken to introduced right to repair legislation here.

Now to a Southland farmer in the midst of it all. The polar blast is set to make things tricker - with freezing temperatures and snow expected. Wyndham Farmer Ben Dooley joins Night with how he and region are preparing.

Heavy Metal and History aren't usually associated with each other but on Armistice Day the Whanganui Regional Museum will be part of the global premiere of the animated film The War to End All Wars - The Movie. The film vividly tells stories from World War 1 based on the Swedish Heavy Metal rock band Sabaton's most recent studio album, of the same name. Museum archivist and self-confessed metal head Sandi Black talks to Mark about how the museum came to be hosting the film and what people can expect.