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With medical cannabis usage in Victoria surging by 700% over the past two years, the global evidence regarding THC's influence on driving remains limited.

Duration:00:11:44

Australian ballroom dance legend Aric Yegudkin brings show to New Zealand

Touring 12 towns and cities across Aotearoa, Ballroom Blitz features twelve first-class dancers, a live five-piece band, and two live vocalists.

Duration:00:14:05

Vincent Ward: Nearly 50 years of filmmaking

This weekend, people will have the chance to view Vincent Ward's earliest surviving film Ma Olsen, which has been fully restored and digitised as part of a retrospective of his work at the Wairarapa Film Festival.

Duration:00:13:58

Auckland literary festival smashes attendance records

Around 85,000 people attended over 160 events at the Auckland Writers Fest - its biggest showing yet in its 25-year history.

Duration:00:13:45

Australian cricketer Travis Head on the 2023 Ashes series

Australia's men's cricket team's triumphant tear in 2023 has been captured in a new documentary series, The Test.

Duration:00:10:34

Jobs for nature yields impressive outcomes for Ruapehu region

Emile Donovan speaks to chief executive of Ngā Waihua o Paerangi Helen Leahy about the impact the project has had, with its long-term future uncertain.

Duration:00:08:00

Not your typical lawyer: Legal advice in the social media age

Tyrone-Jay Barugh advertises his services through videos on TikTok wearing a bright pink suit, answers big questions like 'is it legal to drink a beer while driving', and gets into protracted legal battles with giants like JetStar over promotional deals.

Duration:00:20:06

One foot in front of the other: Nominations open for the Golden Foot awards

Living Streets Aotearoa are calling on the public to put forward people or projects that make their community a better place for pedestrians.

Duration:00:06:40

Politics by Night with Katie Scotcher

RNZ political reporter Katie Scotcher joins Emile Donovan to discuss the scrapping of the First Home Grant.

Duration:00:12:23

Shower Thoughts: Do we all see colour the same?

Six percent of people are colour deficient. How can we tell whether the blue one person is seeing is the same as the next person?

Duration:00:15:18

BBC World Lookahead with Pete Ross

BBC World's Pete Ross joins Nights to talk about the latest on the situation in Iran, a decision expected on whether WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States and the trial set to begin in Germany of alleged ringleaders in a suspected far-right plot to overthrow the government.

Duration:00:14:42

Sports with Kayla Hodge

ODT sport reporter Kayla Hodge chats the all-female High Performance Sport NZ centre in Dunedin, a New Zealand paralympian shaping up well ahead of this years' Paralympics, and injuries mounting up in the ANZ premier league netball competition.

Duration:00:11:33

Young New Zealander named in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list

Podcaster and business journalist Madison Reidy is the only local name on the prestigious list of up-and-comers in the Asia region.

Duration:00:12:28

Tapping into our noisy oceans

The myth of the 'silent world' beneath the waves is something Professor Craig Radford is trying to correct by recording the noises fish and marine mammals make.

Duration:00:22:12

Whakataukī of the Week with Benjamin Lau

Head of music at Newlands College in Wellington and chair of Mātauranga a Puoro o Aotearoa of Benjamin Lau talks to Emile Donovan about workshops being run during New Zealand music month encouraging pupils and teachers to learn about taonga pūoro and tikanga.

Duration:00:07:30

Out Lately with Finn Johansson

Tonight, Finn has a selection of tracks from Los Angeles band 2070, UK psychedelic pop band duo Broadcast, and Tāmaki Makaurau anonymous avant-garde creative genius Donk Dobbo.

Duration:00:24:26

Solving the human waste problem on our highest mountain

University of Canterbury researchers have been working with the New Zealand Alpine Club and Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua to address the issue of how mountaineers dispose of their waste when on Aoraki Mount Cook.

Duration:00:15:46

Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin

Nights' resident film critic Dan Slevin takes a look at The Way, My Way an autobiographical film about a journey of discovery, walking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, BlackBerry a comedy-drama based on the real life invention of the world's first "smart-phone" and Once a low-budget Irish movie about a broken-hearted busker.

Duration:00:16:53

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