Nights

For many people this is a time of hightened anxiety and for alcoholics and addicts in recovery this can be a trying time for their sobriety. Self-described comedian and depressed alcoholic James Nokise is on the line to start a converstaion about coping strategies and finding help.

Chief Economist at The New Zealand Initiative and Nights Regular, Eric Crampton has been taking a look at potential economic policy responses to Covid-19 pandemic. He joins us with more.

Helene Elliot from the LA Times joins us with the sports news from Los Angeles

MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator and Senior Scientist at the Robinson Research Institute of Victoria University of Wellington Chris Bumby gives us his scietific take on Mithril from Lord of the Rings.

Just how welcoming is New Zealand? We're joined by Humanities head at Massey and applied linguistics professor Cynthia White who has been researching the effectiveness of the Welcoming Communities programme developed with Immigration New Zealand and adopted by councils around NZ.

Novelist Elizabeth Knox recently made a speech the New Zealand Festival of the Arts' Writers Programme 2020 about imagination. She joins us to tell us more.

University of Canterbury mechanical engineering Professor Susan Krumdieck makes her debut as a Nights regular pundit. Tonight she takes a look at if and how how covid-19 might affect the transition to a lower carbon economy.

I feel like there is only one sports story in town at the moment. The impacts of Covid-19 are very much being felt the sporting arena, with virtually every sport affected in some way. Dana Johannsen joins us with the details.

The translation and imitation of Latin poets has been a consistent feature of modern New Zealand poetry in English. Working with The University of Canterbury's Teece Museum. Professor Harrison, Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Professor of Latin Literature in the University of Oxford is exploring the influence of Catullus, a poet of the late Roman Republic, on the work of both James K Baxter and C K Stead.

Reem Abbas joins us once again from Sudan bringing us up to date on the assassination attempt on Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and it's global context.