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Dr Paul Hume, MacDiarmid Institute affiliated postdoctoral fellow working at Victoria University of Wellington Symbiotes from the Spiderman Franchise.

Louise Richards Vice President of the New Zealand Geographical Society joins us once again. She's joined tonight by Sandi Ringham, the Maori Resource Management and Environmental planning pukenga/lecturer the University of Waikato Environmental Planning programme and Geography Programme. They'll be exploring Maori Geography in the context of environmental planning.

Zoe George, Senior Sports Journalist at Stuff is our sportscaster tonight.

Our overseas correspondent in Japan, Motoko Kakubayashi joins us from Tokyo.

Our Techie Teen, Charlie Cuff joins us once again. Tonight he looks at AI companions and their possible uses in the aged care industry.

Fergus Grady joins us from the Cannes Film Festival - we find out how that's going after 2 years of virtual screenings and we'll also look ahead to this year's French Film Festival Aotearoa: 21 thoughtfully curated, fabulous French flicks coming to a cinema near you soon.

Ahead of the upcoming Blue Dragon Book Fair in Wellington, we Speak to Australian, Michael Brosowski who in 2002 founded the Blue Dragon Children's Foundation based in Hanoi Vietnam with the aim of ending child trafficking in the area through education, advocacy and even football.

Our Military Historian, Damien Fenton is back - he'll be taking a look at Finland and the Winter War of 1939-40 where the Finns amazed the world with their brave - and highly effective - resistance against the invasion by Stalin's Red Army.

Helene Elliot from the LA times is chasing the Los Angeles hockey team, The LA Kings in the ice hockey playoffs, and they are likely to move on to the next round of the playoffs.

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