Nights

Nights

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Nights episodes

December 05, 2025 The Weekend: Wellington Bike Rave
Wellington's Light the Lanes Bike Rave is being organised by Darcy Snell, who joins Emile Donovan to preview the excitement.
5 min
December 05, 2025 Walking 144 kilometres in impeccable vintage
Russell artist Jacqui Madelin is walking 12 kilometres for 12 days to fundraise for Project Island Song, but she's doing so in style. She joins Emile Donovan.
10 min
December 05, 2025 Words of greeting and words of the year
Linguist Rory O’Sullivan joins the show to give us his take on email etiquette and various dictionaries' words of the year for 2025.
12 min
December 04, 2025 Laser Kiwi: From flag design to icon
While her design never came close to becoming the official flag, Lucy Gray has certainly left a lasting impact. She chats with Emile about the legacy of Laser Kiwi, 10 years on.
12 min
December 04, 2025 The dos & don'ts of Secret Santa
For all the answers, Chief MyHR Evangelist Sylvie Thrush Marsh joins Emile Donovan.
12 min
December 04, 2025 IKEA opens its modular doors to Auckland
The prime minister was there, a giant Swedish meatball mascot was there, and so was Nights' traffic correspondent Hayden Donnell.
13 min
December 03, 2025 What we borrowed from the library in 2025
Emile Donovan speaks to Auckland Libraries Manager of Public Engagement Krissy Taylor.
12 min
December 03, 2025 Science with Ezzy Pearson
Tonight she's talking about Mayan cosmology, tiny T-Rex and gravitational waves.
9 min
December 03, 2025 New Zealand's obsession with property might finally be coming to an end
Duncan Greive asks whether our collective fear of sharemarkets is finally recovering from the eighties.
17 min
December 02, 2025 Shower Thoughts: Why does frozen ice cream get harder?
To help answer this we're joined again by friend of the show, Professor Richard Easther, from the University of Auckland.
8 min

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Tune in to Nights with Emile Donovan every weekday from 8pm to midnight for a delectable buffet of creative ideas, open-minded conversations, music, musings and daily stimulation.