Nights

35 Years ago the world's news was dominated by events in a small set of Islands in the south Atlantic that most of us hadn't even heard of before - The Falklands.

Researcher Jonathon Faulkne with a brief guide to Technetium

Head of Victoria University Press and jazz addict Fergus Barrowman is in to play some new music from pianist Frank Kimbrough and Alison Miller's Boom Tic Boom.

For the Irish citizens who came to Aotearoa after WW1 it seemed like an escape from British imperialism. But all of a sudden in 1941 conscription appeared and everything changed.

Editor of Overland magazine Giovanni Tiso thinks a lot of critics have missed the point of the recent Avengers: Endgame. He's in to fill us in on this astonishingly brave adaptation of Samuel Beckett's 1957 sequel to Waiting for Godot.

Chief economist of the New Zealand Initiative Eric Crampton talks us through his thoughts on the governments recent decision not to pursue a capital gains tax.

Dana Johansen is in to discuss Shaun Johnson finding himself in hot water for texting in a locker room mid game and to investigate the announcement of the Football Ferns squad for World Cup in June.

Three days after last months' terror attacks at two Mosques in Christchurch, the region's Community Access Radio station, Plains FM, began a special Series of programmes presented by Lana Hart to help the people of the region cope and chart a way forward.

And one not quite in time for Easter - but then again the focus of this interview is Christ's next interaction with humanity rather than first one. Jonas Bendiksen is a Norwegian photographer who spent three years tracking down seven men - well mostly men - one's transgender - who claim to be the next Messiah. His journey took him from Russia, to South Africa to Brazil.

Nicola Gaston, Co-director of the McDiarmid Institute for Advanced materials and nano-technology joins us to talk Mercury.