Nights

Toni White is a social researcher for Plant and Food Research - we find out about her work making the scientific solutions work for the communities that need them.

Our mainly Marxist political historian, Associate Professor Brian Roper from Otago University's Politics Departmant joins us once again. He takes a look at the current protests outside parliament.

RNZ Sports Journalist, Penny Miles is our sportscaster tonight.

We speak to Brett Cotter organiser of The Big Bike Film Night - A film festival celebrating all things bicycle across 42 locations from Kerikri to Invercargill.

The Freedom Convoy is the latest in a string of international protest movements to land in Aotearoa. We chat to Dylan Reeve about how the internet facilitates this trend.

Following the recent flooding on the West Coast of the South Island, Dr Daniel Kingston, Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography at the University of Otago joins us to talk about the science behind the floods.

Bryan talked to Associate Professor Sandy Mandic about research from the University of Otago that found heavy school bags are a "significant" issue for teenagers, with one-third of them thinking their bag is too heavy to walk or bike to school.

Bryan gets to grips with a yarborough and a singleton with Allan Morris, Chairman of NZ Bridge ahead of their upcoming Congress event.

Kyle Mullin is a Canadian freelance music writer based in China - he wrote an article about the feud between some major artists and Spotify and how it has overlooked the problems faced by artists with less power and finances for The Guardian last week.

Military Historian Damien Fenton takes a timely look the history of Ukrainian efforts to fight for their independence since WWI.