Nights

Two pieces of British television history a set to go under the hammer later this month. Two immaculate Ford Caprisfrom the hit action show The Professionals are expected to fetch a HUGE price at auction. Arwel Richards from Silverstone Auctions gives us the inside running on the auction.

It's not often that theatre lovers are asked to buy a show ticket and not turn up for the show. But that's what iconic Wellington theatre, BATS is asking patrons to do, as it embarks on a two-month period of maintenance. BATS Theatre cheif executive, Jonty Hendry joins nights to explain what's happening.

It's that time of the week where we check in with our resident film and tv expert Dan Slevin. Dan talks to Nights about the Australian comedy series Fisk, and new look at the story of Dracula and the classic Japanese animated film Whisper of the Heart.

It's Christmas Eve. An older white male and his younger Chinese male lover are waiting for the older white male's half-Chinese daughter to show up . . . What could go wrong? That's the premise for Losing Face, written by award-winning Chinese-Kiwi playwright, theatremaker and performance poet Nathan Joe. Nathan Joe joins us to talk about the production.

While here in New Zealand we're looking forward to longer days as winter starts to give way to spring, there's a group of about 1000 people who are looking forward to their first sunrise in almost four months. Next Saturday the sun will finally rise above the Antarctic horizon for the first time since April.

Abe Gray joins Nights to talk about the Cannabis Museum opening with the hopes of educating and destigmatising the legal use of cannabis.

The number of Kiwi shearers attempting to break records has set a new record in itself. Mark Leishman talks to the secretary of The World Sheep Shearing Records Society, Hugh McCarroll

After the devastating flood events experienced across the East Coast this year, the area was left covered with slash and silt. No one really knew what to do with it. Now, however, a group has found an innovative way to take the debris and turn it into something useful. Thabiso Mashaba is the Edmund Hillary Fellow behind Slash to Cash.

MetService forecaster Matthew Ford with the latest weather forecast.

We've all heard of mail being delivered electronically, by foot, by plane or on four wheels - but what about by drone? The Orkney Islands, off the coast of northern Scotland, have become the first location in the UK to have mail delivered by the aerial devices. Alex Brown, director of Skyports Drone Services, joins Nights with all the details.