Nights

Learning another foreign language, does not have to come at the expense of learning Te Reo Māori according to our first guests this evening. Will Flavell teaches Te Reo Māori and Japanese at Rutherford High School in West Auckland - Lisa Olsen-Brown is doing something similar at Waikirikiri School in Gisbourne - with Reo and Mandarin.

Mansplaining, ransomware, hangry and hazzle are among more than 1000 words that have been added to the latest Oxford English Dictionary.

Liat Collins joins us with an update from Israel.

Public policy think tank, the New Zealand Initiative, says this country is still under-prepared for the next big earthquake.

Berlin based, Kiwi singer/songwriter Teresa Bergman joined us in the studio ahead of her New Zealand tour. Expect something very exciting and utterly beautiful!

Chris Button, associate professor and dean of Otago University's Physical education department has been looking into how we teach children swimming and survival skills - he joins us to tell us more.

Nights' physicist Shaun Hendy fills us in on the science behind heat - thermodynamics, perspiration, refrigeration - you should listen, it'll be cool!

The North Island town of Taihape are busy preparing for their A&P show this weekend - we get all the details from one of the organisers Renée Bellamy and find out about the shearing competitions from Doug Laing from Shearing Sports New Zealand

Chris Jannides is my cultural ambassador after eight - he has with him fellow choreographer - producing show of the most watched dance in new zealand - Maleeah Johnston.

The face of modern daily news journalism - Teresa Smith delivers the Westport News as well as writing for it.