A wrap of the day's big stories

Sixteen years and two novels later, he’s back with a second collection celebrating the short form with Offshore Service and Other Stories.

Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review: Sugar (Apple TV), Tony (In Cinemas), & Gavin Shoebridge’s EV motoring reviews (YouTube).

Tonight, we discuss Kazuo Ishiguro's, "Never Let Me Go."

The eyewear, which can capture video, photos and audio have been used to secretly record people. So - is this the end of privacy as we know it?

ABC Wantok Program for 20 August 2026.

The latest news from Melanesia.

The Human Rights Commission says the government has failed to recognise and support the forestry workers, whanau, and communities exposed to the highly toxic timber preservative pentachlorophenol (PCP). Mihingarangi speaks with Sawmill Workers Against Poisons co-chair Kereama Akuhata and longtime campaigner & former Green MP Catherine Delahunty about PCP's intergenerational legacy and the ongoing struggle to access the support affected whanau need.

The latest RNZ Pacific news.

An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan. Then: what does the future hold for our endangered native birds, with the H5N1 strain of bird flu established on our shores? Conservation Genomics Prefessor Tammy Steeves of Canterbury University explains.