Nights

Former Metservice Severe Weather Meteorologist, Erick Brensturm joins us once again to take a look at weather events around the world.

We celebrate Te Araroa - The 3000km route stretching from Cape Reinga in the north of New Zealand to Bluff in the south - turning 10 years old this week with Te Araroa founder, Geoff Chapple.

We talk to Michelle Hurley, Publisher at Allen & Unwin, about their major new commercial fiction writing prize with a $10,000 publishing contract for the winner.

Nights Geographer Louise Richards joins us once again. Joining Louise this time is geographer and Professor of Public Health at Massey University, Karen Witten. They'll be looking at acceptance of and resistance to urban densification in Aotearoa.

Zoe George is back with a breakdown of the latest news of the cycling integrity breach and a reaction to Tim Paine's resignation.

Back iin October 2018 we spoke to US Forest Service, Research Forester Geoffrey Donovan about the benefits that urban trees and biodiversity have on us as a society. At that time Geoffrey was putting his efforts into finding out if there was a link between biodiversity and childhood leukaemia and has now published a paper based on his findings in NZ.

Our overseas correspondent in Tokyo, Motoko Kakuayashi brings us up to date with what's brewing in Japan.

Dr Julie Spray, a medical and childhood anthropologist and a Research Fellow in the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland says it's time to Stop saying children are 'resilient'.

Dr Taniela Lolohea, Associate Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute and is a Lecturer in Chemistry at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) takes a look at the science behind magic flying carpets.

Mary-anne Scott joins us to talk about her new book - her sixth novel for young adults. The Tomo - named for the naturally-occurring holes in volcanic land - is set at a farm near Gisborne, where Phil has been sent by his family to work for a couple of weeks during Christmas while his mum takes his dad to Wellington for cancer treatment.