Nights

Karyn chats to director Vadim Perelman on the eve of the New Zealand release of his film PERSIAN LESSONS. Set in Occupied France, 1942 a Jewish man tries to stay alive by teaching his nazi captors Farsi - despite having no knowledge of the language.

A Bunk for the Night: A Guide to New Zealand's best Backcountry Huts by Shaun Barnett, Rob Brown & Geoff Spearpoint has been revised and updated. Shaun and Geoff joins us to tell us about it.

Celebrated innovator Sir Ian Taylor has been approved by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment to run a privately funded trial to prove self-isolation can be done safely and effectively. He's calling it #151 Off the Bench as he wants to show an alternative to an overloaded MIQ system. He joins us to discuss how he got his bid over the line.

Nina Hall, Assistant Professor in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University joins us once again. Nina is back in Aotearoa New Zealand - she'll be bringing us up to date on the German election results and taking a look at the French Presidential election race currently heating up.

Audrey Tinline at BBC World keeps us up to date as many countries are seeing a big energy crunch - with prices for gas and coal going up extremely fast, artwork by the renowned British street artist Banksy is up for auction - how much is it expected to go for? And later this week world leaders will be gathering to discuss Afghanistan - at a G20 summit - what's top of the agenda?

It's freedom day for double-vaccinated Sydneysiders! NSW has hit more than 70% fully vaccinated which means the state has newly found freedoms including travelling more than five kilometres from home, dining out, going shopping and seeing friends. It's 8:30pm in Sydney and the party is already pumping at waterfront bar Bungalow8. The Venue Manager Jeremy Fraser joins us to give us the low-down on tonight's plans.

If you headed to the parks and beaches this weekend you might have been fooled into thinking everything was back to normal, but for the retail industry heavy restrictions still apply. The Prime Minister announced today that Auckland remains in phase one of Level three for another week - but retail cannot open till phase two and today's press conference gave no indication as to when we might get there. Greg Harford is the chief executive of Retail NZ and joins us to discuss.

Tonight's sportscaster is RNZ Pacific's Vinnie Wylie.

Photographer Cody Ellingham has been working on a new photo series and exhibition, New Zealand Nocturnes, inspired by his return home to New Zealand and a sense of unease about the housing crisis in which he captures the very places we call home under the lonely glow of night.

Dr Shane Reti is the Deputy Leader of the National Party and lives in Whangarei. He joins us to discuss how the Northland level 3 announcement has effected his community.