Grant Boddington runs Drum Set Rescue, where old, broken and unwanted drum kits are given a second life.

Christian Smith dials in from London with news from the other side of the world.

RNZ could shed 10 percent of staff in a year - as its digital audience hits new heights. Also - a round-up of political alt-media and old-media action

It's time for our fortnightly chat with Nights' resident sociolinguist, associate professor Julia de Bres.

Some really 'youch' figures were reported today in a Stuff piece around the rising costs of home ownership. So, does the cost of home ownership still stack up?

ABC Wantok Program for 19 August 2026.

Join Wallace for New Zealand's most explosive 30 minutes of politics. He is joined by panellists Lillian Hanley, John Boscawen and Jonathan Milne. On the show tonight: the fallout from the Chris Penk affair, is Opportunity's income tax for New Zealanders returning home from overseas fantasy policy?, Does National's Paul Goldsmith have a hope in hell of taking Epsom this year?

The latest news from Melanesia.

An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan. Then: Jane Orphan is the Chief Executive of the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre in Blenheim. Her Museum Show and Tell incudes a link to one Marylin Monroe.

In part two, it's a pet peeve that more job ads don't include pay details. But new research from recruiting firm Robert Half shows that 90 percent of employers they talked to say they lost a candidate because they didn't display the dosh. So why do they do it? Megan Alexander, Managing Director at Robert Half New Zealand explains. Then, where do all the odd shocks go? Wool apparel company Norsewear say they have crunched the data and their managing director Tim Deane joins the show to explain.