Nights

Overseas Correspondent Lien Hoang joins us from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. We catch up on the latest on the covid situation there and also find out why Vietnam has found itself in the middle of a power struggle between two of the major online marketplaces - the US owned Amazon and Chinese owned Alibaba.

Aleksandra Ilina - PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington gives us her scientific take on The Deathstar.

We speak to Neil Vallelly, is a political and social theorist, currently Research Associate, Centre for Global Migrations, at Otago University about Futilitarianism.

We're talking snow and a new collaborative project with the University of Otago, Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington and the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research that seeks to improve the modelling of seasonal snow in our changing climate. We're joined by Investigators Lauren Vargo and Todd Redpath.

American sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times, Helene Elliott joins us once again with the lastest sports news from her corner of the world.

We're joined by theatre maker Shane Bosher and actors Simon Prast and Simon Leary ahead of the opening of their a new play. Everything After, which tells the story of the generation of New Zealanders that survived the HIV/AIDS pandemic and everything that happened after.

We catch up with our Overseas Correspondent Peggy Revell in Medicine Hat, Alberta as the push continues to get Canadians fully vaccinated, as provinces move into reopening plans.

Former University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory superintendent Alan Gilmore joins us once again. Tonight we learn about a dinosaur-killing asteroid strike that gave rise to Amazon rainforest and a 'blinking giant' near the centre of the galaxy that's recently been spotted.

Horror writer and RNZ studio engineer, Denver Grenell makes his debut on Nights as our horror fan.

We chat to Sarah Tuck, one of the brains behind The Well New Zealand's first Mental Health and Wellbeing Gym in central Wellington.