Nights

There's a cold snap moving up the country tonight, and the lower South Island is getting a good dusting a snow. We have a man on the ground in West Otago, farmer Bruce Eade, ready to tell us how the weather's behaving.

Melbourne-based perfume reviewer Marcelo Oillataguerre joins the show to share some tips on picking a long-lasting fragrance - and what part of our body we should be spraying it on - spoiler, it's not the neck.

An estimated 130 million pieces of space debris are travelling in orbit at speeds of thousands of kilometres per hour. And to date, not a single piece has been recovered from space successfully. But several methods are in development to reduce the overpopulation of Earth's orbit by man-made debris. Professor emeritus Ralph Cooney joins the show to discuss why space junk is such a problem, and the top strategies currently being developed to deal with it - one of which is a giant harpoon.

It's not the best time to get a mortgage, with banks lifting their test mortgage rates.

Stand Strong, Walk Tall (SSWT) is a pilot programme providing specialist therapeutic services for adults in Aotearoa New Zealand who experience sexual attraction to children/young people aged under 16. The pilot is government-funded, and began in June of this year. Gwenda Willis is an associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist at the University of Auckland, and talks to Karyn about the aim of the programme - to prevent offending in the first place.

The month of October would normally mark the middle of spring, but it looks like spring is on pause. Forecasters are warning that a polar blast will sweep across Aotearoa this week and make it feel more like mid-winter.

Puppy season is upon us and those early days are an important time to get your new furry family member well socialised and learning good habits. Canine behaviourist Darran Rowe is the owner of Mindfulness4dogs and President of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers New Zealand. He joins the show to discuss how positive reinforcement training can have a massive impact on your dog's ability to learn. Darran has some tips for both training puppies and working with older dogs.

Strokes are the second leading cause of death in New Zealand. Around 9000 people have a stroke each year, and as our population grows and ages that number is on the rise.

Pete Ross joins Nights with the latest on Liz Truss' upcoming trip to the Inaugural European Political Community summit, the Ukraine, and the Minister of Taiwan's visit to Lithuania

Annette Howey and her partner Steve have sold their Timaru home and moved into a campervan. We spoke to Annette few months back.The couple have given up their jobs and their home - they've even left their cat behind. When we first spoke to Annette, she didn't seem that excited about the adventure - even nervous Tonight is her third night in the campervan. She tells us how she's going.