Nights

Tonight, Finn is spinning new music from haunting folk duo West of Roan, eclectic Spanish duo Pedro de Dios & Antonio Fernandez and a track from Onehunga hip hop collective SWIDT.

Judging for the annual Gold Guitar Awards started today with the major winners announced on Sunday night.

Tonight, for the long weekend, Dan Slevin is taking a look at the second season of Tokyo Vice, Freud's Last Session and the documentary Great Photo, Lovely Life.

The Parrot Place is celebrating 21 years in the Kerikeri community, and to celebrate, they're holding a fundraiser for the Bay of Islands Animal Rescue.

RNZ Music's Tony Stamp updates Nights from the Viaduct Events Centre.

The minerals companies need to make batteries for the likes of electric cars and renewable power grids are in rich supply in the Pacific. While nations stand to gain financially, the environmental consequences of extraction can be severe.

Provincial rugby unions voted to reject New Zealand Rugby's proposal for a governance change, putting them on a collision course with the Players' Association.

In France, football is a way of life - and it just so happens they're very, very good at it, says author Tom Williams.

In 2005, locally-made hit animated series Bro'Town secured a cameo from one of the most well-known men in the world, now known as King Charles III.

RNZ senior In Depth journalist Kate Newtown talks to Emile Donovan about what the first Census results, released today, reveal. The Census, conducted in early 2023, places New Zealand's official population just shy of 5 million, at 4,993,923.

Through the nineteen fifties and sixties, around one hundred thousand New Zealand women were sent away by their families to give birth - only to return home and act like nothing happened. These women are now in their seventies and eighties. Playwright Nicola Pauling developed her new play 'I Carried This', after interviewing five New Zealand women who had lived the experience and were still grappling with the fallout. She speaks to Nights about the experience.

Spencer Campbell has been on the dumb phone train for over a year now. And although he runs a YouTube channel, Spencer's Adventures, he tries to show the benefits of a frugal relationship with technology and consumerism, documenting his pursuit of 'simple living'. He speaks to Emile Donovan about his experience and if everyone should get a "dumber" phone.

Colin Peacock is in the studio with another edition of midweek mediawatch. Tonight he's talking to Emile Donovan about Duncan Garners new show finally getting off the ground, what happened at the media awards night last week and a not so new name for Stuff's new 6pm bulletin.

Melissa Oliver is a bookseller at Unity Books in Wellington and she is also an avid fan of online book communities and she's on the line now to help break down what this trend is all about.

It's being pitched as a cost of living policy that's also good for the environment - getting people out of cars and onto buses. But critics aren't sure it will work.

Hardly a month goes by in New Zealand without a venue announcing it's shutting up shop, so when a venue reaches the 20-year milestone, it's something to celebrate.

Clara Ballantyne from Columba College in Dunedin and Luca Ririnui from Mount Maunganui College will form part of the New Zealand team heading to the world championships in Serbia in July.

Interest.co.nz reporter Dan Brunskill talks to Emile Dovovan ahead of the government's first budget this Thursday.

Robin van der Sanden is a postdoctoral fellow at Massey University's SHORE & Whariki Research Centre and picks up the phone to provide some answers.

The BBC's Rob Hugh-Jones joins Nights to talk about the events making headlines internationally, including the latest on elections in both the UK and South Africa, the situation in Sudan where the word genocide has started to be used and Paris getting ready for the Olympic games.