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An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan. Then: Waikato University senior lecturer Chip Van Dyk gives Wallace a history lesson on Halloween, from carved pumpkins, to trick or treating, to bobbing apples.

It's time for a hit of pub politics, Panel style! Wallace Chapman hosts a special edition of The Panel from the Thistle Inn in Wellington.

First up, the fallout from the resignation of Labour candidate Kerrin Leoni after a video emerged of her campaigning alongside Mongrel Mob members. Then, there's only two days left to enroll before the election of 7 November. The panel talks to the campaign director of On A Roll, a campaign to get …