Nights

Dr. Tom Mules, a clinician working with the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research joins us to discuss how hookworms can be an effective way to control diseases such as coeliac, asthma, allergies and bowel problems.

Nights Geographer Louise Richards is back with us again. She's invited Professor Robin Kearns from the School of Environment at The University of Auckland to talk about the significance of place names.

Our Sportscaster tonight is Helene Elliot of the LA Times.

We're joined by poet Grace Iwashita-Taylor and director Ursula Grace to talk about a special project for the Going West Festival which puts poetry to film.

Nights' Philosopher Ann Kerwin takes a look at Donald Robertson's book "How To Think like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius"

Our Overseas Correspondent from India, Shoba Naryan is on the line from Bangalore.

From 22 April to 16 May, some of Auckland's most enthusiastic city-lovers will be celebrating their place with free walking tours throughout our city's neighbourhoods for the Urban Walking Festival 2021 - we speak to Festival Director, Mellissa Laing .

Our Forest expert Dean Baigient-Mercer joins us once again to talk about turning around the collapse on native forests and the use of 1080.

We're joined by author Nigel Robsonn who, his new book, Our First Foreign War, looks at the social impacts of the often overlooked South African war, particularly on NZ's blossoming national identity. He even makes the assertion that it was here, rather than the battlefields of World War I that the Anzac spirit had its genesis.

Mathematician Dilon Mayhew is taking a round trip - looking into the shortest path between two points on a surface, such as the surface of a sphere.