Nights

UK based award-winning science journalist and broadcaster, Kit Chapman joins us to discuss Wildfire from Game of Thrones - a flammable liquid causing fires so hot that water cannot extinguish.

What's it like to be facing the All Blacks from the other side of half way? We're joined by sports journalist Andy Burt who has co-authored a new book on the topic.

Alan Forrest and the crew of KiwiDream have been in South America for a number of months but are now making their way across the Pacific Ocean back to New Zealand.

Our Transition Engineering expert, Professor Susan Krumdiek from the University of Canterbury joins us once again. Tonight she asks what does Transition Engineering look like? What needs to be innovated, re-designed, re-developed, re-generated and how that could be done starting now?

Tonight's sportscaster Zoe George should have been at the Olympics. She'll be talking about the calls for an independent investigation into abuse in New Zealand gymnastics.

We're joined by Associate Professor Christoph Bartneck of the Human Interface Technology Lab (HIT Lab NZ) in the University of Canterbury's College of Engineering and creator of the Human-Robot Interaction Podcast. Christoph and PhD student Merel Keijsers have written a paper on The Morality of Abusing A Robot.

William Yang joins us once again from Taipei with the latest news from Taiwan.

Nights' Toxicologist Leo Schep from Toxiform joins us once again. Tonight he's taking a look at Cannibis.

On the Reporters without Borders World Press Freedom Index, Hungary is ranked 89th out of 180. Following the resignation of more than 70 journalists and staff at Hungary's top news site Index we're joined by their Depute Editor in Chief, Veronika Munk to find out what's going on.

As we move into free trade talks between the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Victoria University of Wellington maritime law expert Dr Bevan Marten talks us through a struggle over trading terms from 120 years ago between the UK and its colonies.