Nights

Bryan is joined by economist Dr Brian Easton to discuss what inflation actually is. Brian will also be looking at how we talk about inflation, what our current position is in Aotearoa and try and work out what exactly is meant by "stag-flation".

Helene Elliot from the LA Times is our sportscaster this evening. She joins Bryan to discuss events in world sport over the last week.

In breaking news, the sun is hot. But they way it is hot has confused scientists for decades. Bryan speaks to Dr Jonathan Squire of the Department of Physics at The University of Otago who has teamed up with colleagues from Princeton and Oxford and solved a key part of one of the greatest unanswered questions in astrophysics - why the Sun's atmosphere is hotter than its surface?

As Australia finally accepts New Zealand's offer to take refugees from Nauru, we talk to Paul Power, CEO of The Refugee Council of Australia.

Anthropologist and Child Health researcher, Dr Julie Spray joins us once again to talk about her Pandemic Generation research project. She has been interviewing and making comics with Auckland kids aged 7-11 about their perspectives on the covid-19 pandemic.

We get a Slam Poetry lesson with spoken word artist, Rikki Livermore (aka RikTheMost) ahead of the Poetry Slam at Your Place Grand Finals next weekend.

Francis Fukuyama's influential essay 'The End of History?' announced the triumph of liberal democracy and the arrival of a post-ideological world. I ask Eric Crampton if we're witnessing the recommencement of history.

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

How would we build shelter and infrastructure on Mars? We chat to University of Canterbury Associate Professor of Engineering, Allan Scott about the possibility of "Marscrete".

Our Overseas Correspondent from Taiwan, William Yang joins us from Taipei.