Nights

We speak to director Lala Rolls who's documentary film, Tupaia's Endeavour which traces the journey of Tahitian high priest navigator Tupaia, who came to NZ in 1769 on board Cook's Endeavour.

Nights Philosopher Ann Kerwin joins us once again. Tonight we're looking at a recent work by John Kaag, an American Philosopher and scholar of American Pragmatism on the late nineteenth century thinker William James.

Helene Elliott from the LA Times is tonight's sportscaster.

Reem Abbas joins us once again from Khartoum.

MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator and Research Scientist at the Photon Factory in the School of Chemical Science at the University of Auckland, Michel Nieuwoudt gives us her take on Star Trek's Tricorder.

Can art change your life? We speak to documentary filmaker, Marta Pulk who advertised for someone who has never been to the theatre before and followed her as she went to every play in a year in theatre-mad Estonia.

Dr Nikki Freed and Dr Olin Silander from Massey University are part of the team developing cleverer ways of sequencing the genome of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Nights' Mathematician, Dillon Mayhew joins us once again. With election season - both at home and in the US - approaching, he'll be looking at election forecasts and what they mean.

Rikki Swannell joins us once again. Tonight she reminisces about the netball world cup final a year ago and asks about netball's future ... as well as the future of other sports post COVID.

We'll be asking Gery Karantzas, Associate Professor in Social Psychology and Relationship Science at Deakin University in Melbourne.