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Generations of New Zealanders have memories of themselves or their children at kindergarten, and new memories are being made every day.

Melody Thomas, Bryan Crump, John Brewerton from the Essentially Men Trust and Eleanor Butterworth form New Zealand Rugby take part in a wider discussion about MeToo, masculinity and domestic violence.

Prof. Shaun Hendy, director of Te Punaha Matatini at the University of Auckland joins us again. Back in February he spoke about the physics of keeping cool. Tonight he's investigating keeping warm.

Nights' Military historian, Damien Fenton joins us once again. Tonight, just as it may be coming to an end, we take a look back at the Korean War.

Tonight Peter Lampp is looking at Wimbledon, The World Cup and Manawatu Club Rugby.

Something for the weekend was a game of two halves dedicated to the football world cup final, first half, podcasters Emile Donovan and Max Towle creaters of Squeaky Bum Time look forward to the final and second half Andrew Aris from Spirit of Football (which aims to spread peace and love with the beautiful game) talks about his pilgrimage to Russia, his refugee team in Germany and how peace is doing in 2018.

Our man of Modern Dance, Chris Jannides is back with us again. Tonight he's joined in the studio by Anton Carter, the Chief Executive of DANZ, the national resource for the dance industry in Aotearoa which support both the professional and recreational sectors.

Researching humour is not just a laughing matter for cultural studies lecturer Dr Nick Holm. He specialises in studying its multiple forms - from satire to deadpan - to understand how humour can make us chuckle and think more seriously about social and political issues.

To talk about some of the issues raised in tonight's episode of Bang!, Bryan is joined by Bang! host, Melody Thomas and Jane McPherson

Researching humour is not just a laughing matter for cultural studies lecturer Dr Nick Holm. He specialises in studying its multiple forms - from satire to deadpan - to understand how humour can make us chuckle and think more seriously about social and political issues.