Nights

Director Andrew Galt and Photographer Richard Knot are in the Wellington Studio selling this year's must-have calendar, Men In Yoga Pants.

Methodist lay-preacher John Thornley with a Christmas episode of his series exploring the spiritual side of songs.

Mapping where the pounamun is; radio tracking our carnivorous snails; and in Dateline Pacific; an award winning cartoonist detained on Manus escapes PNG.

Te Manu Korihi news editor Shannon Haunui-Thompson joins us on Nights to look back on 2017 and ahead to 2018 from a Maori perspective.

Otaki Summer Camp - a three day event for folk aged 17 to 30 - set in a river valley at the foot of the Tararua Ranges. Organiser Kimberly Collins is in the Wellington Studio to tell us more.

Auckland Botanical Gardens Curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us.

My first guest of the week wants to wrap a big gay rainbow around Wellington next month. Leilani Sio - also known as D J Panda - wants to boost the visibility of the LGBQ community at the 2018 Wellington Pasifika Festival, by making the world's biggest lei - in all the colours of the rainbow - in time for the event.

The good people from Beatnik Motorcycles in Blenheim are organising a ride down the newly opened State Highway One to Kaikoura this weekend. Co-Owner Michael Gilbert tells is more.

Nights' electronic music doyen Paul Berington takes us back to streets of Chicago which after the peak of the original Chicago sound, mutated into a fresh new movement, now often referred to as the second wave of the city's house producers.

The team behind the successful webseries BURBS - set in the suburbs of Wellington - join Bryan to talk about telling stories with a sense of place.