Nights

Dr Catherine Whitby, Senior Chemistry Lecturer at Massey University, and MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator, talking about the Star Wars material Mandalorian, super light and super strong, and its equivalent in this galaxy, Kevler.

We get another perspective on the current situation in Ethiopia. Mewael Assefa is from the Tigray region and lives in Christchurch.

A few months back we spoke with Professor Michael Bunce, Chief Scientist with the Environmental Protection Authority. He tols us of a Citizen Science project called Wai Tūwhera o te Taiao - Open Waters Aotearoa which invites us to take samples from our local stream, lake, beach, river so they can identify the DNA left behind by anything living in that waterbody. So the other day, Bryan went for a walk.

In an event recorded last Thursday at the University of Auckland entitled The US Election 2020: A Crisis of legitimacy?, a panel of lecturers, Timothy Kuhner, Maria Armoudian, Danny Osborne and Scott Optican use the lenses of law, political science, and psychology to explain this contested election and discuss the implications of the final outcome.

Following the launch of her new wellness magazine "Thrive", veteran editor and journalist Wendyl Nissen joins us to talk about magazines and why we still love them.

Rikki Swannell joins us once again with a look at the latest sports stories.

As pandemic times encourage Kiwis to rediscover domestic travel and road trips, we talk to writer and auto enthusiast Steve Barnett about his new book Life with Cars: New Zealanders' motoring memories 1950s-1980s.

Eleanor Tremeer, our sci-fi geek is back again. Tonight she's taking a look at Futurism - the futures we dreamed up, which predictions were accurate, which weren't, and how we represent the future now.

A University of Canterbury study has found that one in 10 parents experienced severe burnout in lockdown, we talk to Dr Cara Swit, Lecturer in Educational and Developmental Psychology at the University of Canterbury.

Our mainly Marxist political historian Brian Roper joins us once again. Tonight he's looking at just how transformational Jacinda Ardern's Labour government will be or or whether it will be just another varient of third way social democracy.