Nights

Associate Professor of Classics, Mark Masterson joins us to talk about his new book 'Between Byzantine Men', which uses evidence never used before to make a presentation of sex and desire between men in the middle centuries of the Byzantine Empire, when there were ritual brotherhoods between men that mimicked marriage.

Ahead of its New Zealand Premiere at this year's Doc Edge Festival, we talk to Director Lars Ostenfeld about his film INTO THE ICE in which he accompanies three of the world's leading glaciologists on pioneering scientific expeditions to and into the Greenland ice sheet.

Nina Hall, Assistant Professor in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University joins us once again to chat about her new book, Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era, and give us her take on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's latest trip to the US.

BBC's Rob Hugh Jones provides an update.

Our man in the Manawatu, Peter Lampp joins us once again.

Our overseas correspondent from Scotland, Andrew Learmonth joins us once again from Glasgow.

Dr Darren Parsons, Niwa marine ecologist and fisheries scientist talks about "Catch Sampling" to ensure New Zealand fisheries are sustainable.

Economist Brian Easton joins us once again to ask if we are reaching the stage of the 1870s, the 1930s and the 1970s of growing unease about the state of the New Zealand economy. Will we have another 'Think Big' and if so, what will be the balance between the private and public involvement?

Midweek Media Watch with Colin Peacock

We talk to Dr Sarah Flanagan, Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at University of Canterbury about how some of our native species are adapting to climate change?