Nights

We catch up with Jamie in Tekapo.

Patrick Phelps from Minerals West Coast takes a look at the Climate Change Commission's report from the perspective of the West Coast mining industry and the policies they'd like to see as a result.

We ask Dr Ian Huffer, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Massey University if Chinese cinema still needs Hollywood.

Professor Deirdre Brown (Ngapuhi, Ngati Kahu), head of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland is is one of 27 new Fellows elected to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Aparangi. Professor Brown is a founding researcher of Maori architectural history and design, whose research has been used as a framework in the field of Maori architecture within Aotearoa and internationally.

Our overseas correspondent from Russia, Bryan MacDonald is taking a break from Moscow and joins us from Sochi.

MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Auckland, Duncan McGillevray tries to work out how Rumpelstiltskin made straw into gold!

Comedian Thomas Dorreen joins us ahead of his Wellington Pride Workshop "How to Gay"

Increasing the amount of time schools devote to physical education each week could dramatically reduce the number of children who are doing only minimal levels of exercise, researchers from the University of Otago, Wellington and Sport New Zealand have found. We talk to lead researcher Dr Anja Mizdrak.

Nina Hall, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University is back again - she's been looking into a proposal and a petition for a patent waiver at the World Trade Organisation for the COVID vaccine.

Zoe George, Senior Sports Journalist at Stuff has been watching the sailing this afternoon.