Nights

"Queer History Zine" is a collaboration between LAGANZ (Lesbian and Gay Archives New Zealand) and Wellington Zinefest giving people the opportunity to delve deep into LAGANZ archives, and reflect upon what queer material archives mean for queer communities today. LAGANZ board member, Will Hansen tells us about the project.

A new podcast in association with the University of Auckland. Every week between now and the US presidential election, three experts in US politics, history and media from the University of Auckland, all from the USA but currently happily living here in New Zealand, will take us through the systems, the history and the precedents, and try to explain why things might be happening the way they are.

We talk to Dr Jodi Rowley is Curator of Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology at the Australian Museum in Sydney about using smart phones to gauge how well frogs have done after the summer bushfires.

What was the role of New Zealand in the forming of the United Nations? You might think it was quite small, but New Zealand and its Prime Minister at the time Peter Fraser played a major part in shaping the organisation in 1945 and 1946.

Our pundit this evening is mathematician Dr. Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University. He's remembering Aotearoa's most prominent mathematician Vaughan Jones who died unexpectedly at the beginning of September.

A new series in partnership with Auckland's Going West Festival. They''ve opened up their archives and unearthed the best oratory, discussion and performance from 25 years of the Festival. We start with a performance from 2001 called Working class heroes. Poets Serie Barford and Glenn Colquhoun celebrate their working class roots as part of the Going West Oblivion Express as it steams to Helensville Station.

Peter Lampp is our sportscaster tonight.

Environmental Protection Authority Chief Scientist, Michael Bunce. joins us on the studio to talk about Environmental DNA (or eDNA) which is genetic material recovered from environmental substrates such as water or soil.

If you enjoy a little drop of wine every now and then, I'm sure you're very good and put the bottle in the recylcling - but what about the bottle top? It turns out you can recycle them AND raising money for charity.

Erick Brenstum joins us once again. Tonight he's taking a look at the record breaking Atlantic Hurricane season and of course the wildfires in the USA.