Nights

Poetry film is a fast-growing art form combining poetry, moving images, sound and music. The Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival takes place in Wellington during November. Festival director and Victoria University of Wellington Film Programme Associate Professor Alfio Leotta joins Mark.

We're going bush with our Forest Correspondent, Dean Baigent-Mercer. Tonight he's talking about what's happening with kahikatea trees, the impact of the wet summer on our native trees and the good news story about the milk tree or turepo

Colin Peacock is in the studio to discuss the big stories in the media.

Five teams have claimed prizes in this year's Velocity $100k Challenge which encourages students to develop their entrepreneurial mindset. The winners include a venture for reducing construction waste and another designed to solve gender challenges on building sites. To discuss, the Director of the University of Auckland Business School's Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Darsel Keane joins us.

WOMAD organisers have added 18 new acts to next year's festival with Morcheeba, Gilberto Gil and Nitin Sawhney set to appear. Programme director Emere Wano speaks to Mark.

Six months ago Southlander Simon Patton could hardly manage a 5km without stopping. But those days are long gone. At the weekend he completed five of New Zealand's great walks in just five days - nonnop. Simon joins us now to tell the tale.

Ryan Bodman has spent the past few years researching, writing and thinking about Rugby League's impact on social movements and working class culture. His book Rugby League in New Zealand: A People's History has just been released. Ryan joins Nights to discuss his book.

It's been a popular destination for locals and visitors alike in the small McKenzie town of Twizel for the past six years. The Twizel Bookshop is one of the country's smallest bookshops but is now facing an uncertain future. To find out more, Nights is joined by owner Renee Rowland.

Low-dose cannabis products could soon be avaliable over the counter from New Zealand pharmacies. Usually coming in drop or capsule format - the substance can be used to treat pain, stress and anxiety. Massey University senior researcher Dr Marta Rychert runs the Annual annual Alcohol and Drug Use Survey and talks to Mark Leishman about what is happening.

A Maori health science collaboration which has just been granted New Zealands's first licence to cultivate an indigenous fungi containing psilocybin. Rangiwaho Marae, based south of Gisborne, is leading the collaboration and the license was granted to Rua Bioscience, a biopharmaceutical business also based in Tairawhiti. The licence is only for cultivation research at this stage but it aims to unlock therapeutic potential of psilocybin found in indigenous varieties of 'magic mushrooms' To find out more Nights is joined joined by project advisor Manu Caddie