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Topics - should smoking be banned from songs, from movies, from children's books? The egg farmer who admitted duping consumers by passing off 2.47 million eggs from caged hens as free-range. As we… Audio

Topics - Which is the world's most populated city now? Do you remember doing this as a child? Napier's $1.3m art deco tourist buses have been sold for $25,000 each. These were old US schoolbuses… Audio

Topics - workers in service and blue-collar jobs, and the unemployed, are at increased risk for heart disease and stroke, according to new research from America's Center for Disease Control and… Audio

Dr James Levine says we lose two hours of life for every hour we sit. The parents of children at Swannanoa School weren't keen on their children wearing wristbands with microchips in them. The latest… Audio

Topics - Out of the UK comes the news that drug use is increasing among people aged 30 and above, drug use is neither up nor down among 20-somethings, but 11- to 15-year-olds are turning off drugs… Audio

Topics - the British RSPCA is reporting black cats are being rejected in this age of the 'selfie'. Black cats do not photograph well, aparently, don't look cute enough for social media postings. ACT… Audio

Topics - Prospect magazine has run a piece lamenting the way we think now about dragons and mediaevalness in general, thanks to Tolkien. The Labour leader has unsurprisingly backed Fish and Game's… Audio

Topics - If you like a quiet time, head for the Spanish city of Seville. Seville's silent summer, they're calling this. They've banned outdoor noise. Seville's been noisy; flamenco singers, old men… Audio

How many performing artists span the generations like Weird Al Yankovic? From his "My Balogna" in the 1970s, a parody of "My Sharona". In the 1980s "Eat It", a spoof of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and… Audio

Topics: The millionaires of Manhattan; young women playing rugby in men's teams and the world's biggest shopping mall. Audio

Topics - ties, neckties, used to be seen as binding men, and then men stopped wearing them and a whole huge conhort of middle-aged blokes are hardly seen in a tie at all now. Energy analyst Molly… Audio

Topics - The world's second-richest man, Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim, says we work too many days but not enough years. Malaysia Airlines, we heard about the share price sliding; that… Audio

The Moon landing, the blame game in Gaza, and police want a six-year ban on any new bars and bottle stores in central Auckland and other regional hot-spots. Audio

Owning a dog can turn back the hands of the clock of ageing, say Scottish scientists at St Andrew's University, Chief Coroner Judge Neil McLean on to discuss the findings of a University of Otago… Audio

Topics: A mayor in Belgium chose a Dire Straits song to try and drive off a group of Roma camping in his town in their 14 caravans. So-called "zombie" towns. A sexist slogan is being removed from a… Audio

Topics: Putting a price on friendships - how much are your friendships worth in monetary terms?; the hotline in Australia that charges you to complain about your workplace - you can pour out all your… Audio

What is the greatest guitar riff of all time? The Auckland Rugby Union is looking at shifting ITM Cup games away from Eden Park as paltry crowds hit them financially. A victim of a sex crime revealed… Audio

Pop singer Sia, ACT's Epsom candidate David Seymour is not on the party's list because he is focusing on winning the electorate in September's general election, the party says. NZ has zombie towns… Audio

Topic 5 - Dog poo bins. Topic 6 - St John's College in Hastings will have to find $24,000 in legal costs after being taken to the High Court by Lucan Battison. Topic 7 - AirNZ online booking. Audio

Topics - scientists are wondering how the light gets out. Maybe there is a cosmic crack in everything, because in the Journal Astrophysical Letters it is noted that there is a huge deficit of light in… Audio

Topics - Well somebody will be watching you, watching all of us more and more as we know, and maybe not the GCSB or Five Eyes, but NZI or AMP. Do we need to have binding referenda? The wealthy… Audio

Topics - bright blue bands incorporating tiny Italian glass beads are being painted on the footpaths along the entertainment strip on Bridge Street between Trafalgar and Collingwood, where the bars… Audio

Topics - a study out of Yale shows that contrary to popular belief, clever people who are scientifically literate do not change their minds about the views they hold when presented with scientific… Audio

Topics - Alone; one of the words we hate the most, apparently. This is the finding today in the big journal Science, from American varsity researchers. The discharge without conviction for the… Audio

Topics - Cabin crew on British airways could soon be seeing red if their passengers aren't comfortable on board. It's developing a blanket that can measure how much stress your experiencing in a… Audio