Nights

This coming Sunday may be Mother's Day, but Norsewood, a small town north of Dannevirke, will be celebrating something else entirely - Norway Day.

Have you ever wondered about how do we smell, what makes perfume appealing, and why does it smell different on different people? Dr Magdalena Wajrak is Senior Lecturer, Chemistry at Edith Cowan University in Perth.

Why TV and film fans should care about the Hollywood writers' strike, and how it could potentially change the future of television. Senior writer for The Spinoff, Chris Schulz, joins Nights.

Helen Lehndorf was foraging in North Taranaki before she even learned the word. She's written a book, 'A Forager's life', and will be at the Auckland Writer's festival next week.

British director Sophie Compton is a British director, writer, and activist who tells women's stories of injustice. Her feature debut, Another Body, tackles the issue of 'deepfake' pornography.

What do we need in our toolkits to help keep the nasties at bay during winter, and how do we keep our bodies in fine fettle during the colder months?

Colin Peacock talks to Mark Leishman about criticism of the Coronation coverage - and a new radio station and podcasts emerging from the closure of Today FM.

Social media is helping to lift stigma around hair loss. A number of men, and women for that matter - many of them in their 20s and 30s - are opening up about their balding or hair thinning journeys. Mikko Myllymaki is the CEO and co-founder of hair growth specialists 'Gro'.

You might've heard a bit of talk lately about Mercury being in retrograde. In astrology terms, that means the planet appears to be going in the reverse direction. But to the superstitious it marks the beginning of a span of misfortune. New Zealand Skeptics chair Craig Shearer joins Nights.

A European start-up is having a crack at making hypersonic air travel a reality. Swiss-based company Destinus has a team of 120 staff working on an aircraft which it hopes could one day fly from Frankfurt to Sydney in just over four hours. Business development manager Martina Löfqvist has al the details.