Nights

Shoba Naryan joins us from Bangalore with the latest news and stories from India.

Dr Paul Hume, MacDiarmid Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington looks into the science behind Spiderman's silk.

RNZ Mediawatch's Hayden Donnell joins us once again with his midweek eye on the media.

Stephenie Clare is the CEO of Age Concern we ask her what difference the drop from level 4 to level 3 lockdown will make to the people she advocates for.

We speak to actor Amanda Redman (New Tricks & At Home With The Braithwaites) who is the co-founder of a campaign to raise money for people who are struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. She joins us to talk about that project and also the role of the eccentric Dr. Lydia Fonseca in THE GOOD KARMA HOSPITAL. a medical drama releasing in New Zealand on Acorn TV on Monday 4th May, 2020.

One of the interesting results of the lockdown is that many of us have had the time to walk in our neighbourhoods and suburbs and notice the birds and natural environment around us. Professors Phil Seddon and Yolanda van Heezik are wildlife biologists in Otago University's Zoology Dept and they been thinking about our relationship with nature in the current situation.

Every day during level 4, Russell Garret has been emailing us his thoughts, feelings and observations of lockdown in the form of an acrostic poem.

We get an insight into the world of virtual car racing with racer Shane van Gisbergen.

Across the country today some schools have had a teacher only day, preparing for tomorrow when some of their students will return to the class room with the change to Level 3. We speak to the principal of Rowandale School in Manurewa, Karl Vasau.

Economist Brian Easton joins us to apply his know-how to give us some idea of the economics of Covid-19 both here in Aotearoa and worldwide, but as he says himself, "If you confidently know the answers to any of these questions, you have not been following closely enough."