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Topics: The Swedes are changing their working hours to 6 hours a day and research into whether anyone really notices how hard you work. What is cruel and what is not when you kill an animal, and the… Audio

Topics - it's axiomatic, especially in song, that we tolerate work and we live for when it finishes. Even if you like working and enjoy your job, where would you say you're less stressed - on the job… Audio

Topics - social anthropologist Kate Fox who wrote the book 'Watching The English' says the English are unsure of how to greet one another. She suggests that people should start saying 'How do you do?'… Audio

The Internet Party; New Zealand’s growing Asian population and smokers being ostracized in Wellington. Audio

Topics - More than 250 students from the US and seven other countries have gathered to compete for the top honour (and more than $33,000) in the annual Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee… Audio

TV3 can't cover the John Banks high court trial using any pictures, because of the gratuitous footage it used of John Banks' auricular activities; Lily Choi- Lee says tourism operators here need to… Audio

Game of Thrones. Evidently there is no episode this week because of a holiday in the U.S. A new survey from the Asian NZ Foundation shows Maori are getting increasingly negative toward Asians… Audio

Topics - singer Lana del Ray has 82 million youtube visits for a song, and Kanye West paid her $2.8 million to sing at his wedding to Kim Kardashian. The British have held local government elections… Audio

The Air Force yesterday during a training exercise yesterday dropped pallets of supplies into a Hastings vineyard by mistake. The NZ Herald's headline - "Plonk. Air Force In A Vine Mess"; Lou Vincent… Audio

Topics - the CEO of Levis jeans has come out and said you don't need to wash your jeans more than once a year - he was at a green-themed conference. You'll see people smoking cigarettes of a pukey… Audio

Topics - a Dutch man came around recently, and he discovered he loved Johnny Cash. The Advertising Standards Authority's upheld a complaint against a TV ad for Telecom which shows someone with very… Audio

Topics - Should we be dressing for bed in order to wrest more happiness from those long hours of the night? A behavoural modification expert writing in the Huffington Post, Dr Beth Ricanati, argues… Audio

topics - researchers have found that we're disposed to buy products with eyes on them looking back at us. One of the things they did was manipulate the gaze of the cartoon rabbit on a product called… Audio

Topic 3 - Immigration. Topic 4 - Cheques. Topic 5 - Coffee. Audio

Topics - the American Library of Congress has announced it's trying to find ways to preserve CDs, which were made for yesterday's mass market, not for posterity. At some point they'll just give up the… Audio

Topics - Brazilian students wanting to improve their English are connecting with elderly Americans in care homes on-line. The Speaking Exchange is bringing the two togther through a free video chat… Audio

Topics - A report's come out from Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School calling for killer robots to be banned. Dunedin residents could again be asked to beef up the funding for the expensive… Audio

Topics - China has a grand vision for a rail line spanning China, Russia, Canada and into the United States. The project would cross Siberia and the Bering Strait to Alaska, and then go across Canada… Audio

People coming into New Zealand shouldn't be allowed to buy duty-free cigarettes. And finally, a new study that shows how farmers hold the key to understanding cultural differences in the world. Audio

Topics - Many people say they have shark phobias, for other people, it's fear of heights that causes them crippling anxiety. The Christchurch City Council is promising to act on the $534 million… Audio

Topics - We're getting taller, 4 inches taller, to be precise. We've been discussing ACC claims and wasps, on Afternoons, how NZ has the worst wasp problem in the world and that ACC upholds some wasp… Audio

Topics - A video about looking up from social networking has gone viral on social networking sites. The video documents our use of social networking sites - like facebook, twitter etc - and what we… Audio

Topics - Harvard scientists have found that young blood actually 'recharges' the brain, forms new blood vessels and improves memory and learning. Should Boris the giant schnauzer be put down? The… Audio

Topics: A discussion on celebrity and what qualifies, well a wide-ranging discussion on celebrity really as we discover why Peaches Goldof died. The new Super Rugby expansion and analysis of the state… Audio

Topics - At a big conference in America called Thrive, organised by Adriana Huffington of the Huffington Post, highly successful people were asked how much sleep they get. Their answers varied. Some… Audio