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Our Overseas correspondent in India, Shoba Naryan joins us from Bengaluru where it's Mango season.

Podiatrist Emma Worthington joins us once again. She'll be looking at heel pain in active children. And how to prepare for the up coming winter sport season to prevent injury.

Every year in New Zealand, 2.2 million tonnes of waste is generated via food manufacture – much of which ends up in landfills. This organic biowaste could be used to improve our soils instead of damaging our environment, says environmental scientist Brett Robinson.

Lisa Kane joins us from her apartment in Shangai where she's been in lockdown with her partner and daughter for 35 days now - and she's pretty stoic about it.

Professor Duncan McGillivray, MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Auckland takes a look at the theranos saga and fraudster and biotech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes.

Dillon Mayhew, Associate Professor from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Te Heranga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington joins us once again. Tonight he's looking at how AI and reinforcement learning may be able to help us to understand some mathematical problems.

It's a rugby-themed chat with our sportscaster Peter Lampp tonight.

University of Canterbury medieval historian Dr Chris Jones introduces us to Aotearoa's "Wicked" Bible.

Our Overseas Correspondent in Taiwan, William Yang joins us from Taipei as more signs emerge that Taiwan is moving away from the zero-Covid strategy.

Tim Barnett from Auckland Libraries joins us to talk us through Kura - their online heritage collection of manuscripts, photos, rare books and oral history. Anyone can access it and it's free.