Nights

We speak to Apisalome Movono & Regina Scheyvens about a book they've complied called Mana of the PacificWisdom from across Oceania. The two Massey University Academics who have been researching the impact of COVID-19 on Pacific communities.

Nights philosopher, Ann Kerwin has been reading Adam Grant's book THINK AGAIN The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know.

Peter Lampp is back with a look at the weekend's sports from a Manawatu perspective.

New Zealand's first hydrogen-powered electric truck arrives at the Ports of Auckland on the 18th November. We talk to Hyundai New Zealand General Manager and New Zealand Hydrogen Council board member, Andy Sinclair.

Our overseas correspondent from India, Shoba Naryan on the line from Bengaluru.

Podiatrist Emma Worthington is back - with some advice for getting our feet ready for summer.

Nights' forest expert, Dean Baigent-Mercer joins us once again. Tonight he's looking at the influence of seabords on our forests.

We talk to Sam Te Kani, a sexpert, a public face of the Ending HIV campaign, pop culture authority, well-known resident of Karangahape Road and author of Please, Call Me Jesus, his first collection of stories. It's a joyride to the digital frontier of sex -- a pulp paperback that takes all the entertaining qualities of erotica and marries them to a delicious, imaginative conjuring of new technological possibilities.

Hayden looks at the sympathetic media coverage unvaccinated teachers are receiving; the NZ Herald's stance on social media comments, blurred lines between news and opinion and how Guyon Espiner's documentary on alcohol, Proof, has provoked rare and potent self-reflection from viewers.

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 tackling a famously unsolved problem in mathematics, the Collatz Conjecture.