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Topic 1 - As compared to the late '60s, hit pop songs today are more often written in a minor key and with a slightly slower tempo. Topic 2 - It's been reported today that the organiser of Miss… Audio

Topics - Who'd want to be a CEO? Is the government trying to stop people using the family court? 16 weeks of intense culinary competition has paid off for Auckland marketing executive, Chelsea Winter… Audio

Topics - Can you believe the British PM left his daughter behind at a pub. Your chances of getting a job at age 50-plus are supposed to be looking up - but some Aucklanders say they are hitting a wall… Audio

Topics - You should celebrate your big day as if it's your last ... it may well be. Today we learned that mortgagee sales in New Zealand are happening at a rate of nearly six a day. Smoking could be… Audio

Topics - The Cook Street Chorus with your complaints for another week. The FBI is warning that hundreds of thousands of computers will simultaneously lose access to the internet on July 9, unless… Audio

Topics - Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who was Facebook's first president, says he's bored with Facebook and has launched a new service. The global economy's foundations are weakening, one by one… Audio

Topics - The MetService was predicting the lower half of the South Island could be the best bet for New Zealanders wanting to see the Transit of Venus, today. Fans flocked to see Lady Gaga as she… Audio

Topics - Queen Elizabeth has sailed on a royal barge at the centre of a spectacular 1000-boat river pageant on the Thames, the set-piece of celebrations to mark her Diamond Jubilee. We have previously… Audio

The Complaints Choir, France clamps down on fat cat salaries, exercise might be bad for some apparently healthy people, a boy is injured at school while playing a headlocking game, and the Maori Party… Audio

Could New Zealand's decade-long P epidemic finally be winding down? Some preliminary results from a new Health Ministry survey show the proportion of New Zealanders aged 16 to 64 who had used the drug… Audio

Topics - The chief coroner has taken the unusual step - for a suicide - of allowing publication of the details of King's College student, David Gaynor's death. A Southland woman's emails to friends… Audio

Topics - An email from Lou Harrison-Smith proposes we (society) stop sending people to prison for white-collar crime. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and… Audio

Topics - Do you take your smartphone to bed? Has the pursuit of labour productivity reached its limit? Audio

This week's edition of The Complaints Choir, the reality TV show in which you can "win a baby", the viral video of a southern bloke rolling his ute on a public road, and protests against the… Audio

Topics - The age-old custom of greeting with a handshake could be on its way out as many of us prefer to meet with a hug or even a kiss, according to survey commissioned by the soap firm, Radox. Tame… Audio

Topics - On the eve of the Government's "Zero Budget", many Kiwis are unconvinced by National's economic plan. Every week in the United states, at least 50 children are killed or injured because they… Audio

Topics - Slate magazine is running an unusual kind of political poll in the U.S., in conjunction with a polling organisation. The Mayor of Christchurch, Bob Parker, has rejected calls for the city… Audio

A British journalist says cupcakes are the new cocaine, an education specialist suggests kids not start school until age 6, and the G8 nations don't support Angela Merkel's imposing austerity measures… Audio

This week's Complaints Choir, no compensation for the thousands of ACC claimants whose names were emailed to Bronwyn Pullar in March, the Aussie girl suing her school because she's not happy with her… Audio

Topics - A Rotorua court has heard how Kara Hurring bought more than 340 thousand dollars worth of gambling chips at a Macau casino - but what happened to them is a mystery. A careers programme has… Audio

Topics - When men and women look at ads featuring scantily-clad women, their brains process them as objects, not people, a new study suggests. The ratio of teachers to students in New Zealand's… Audio

Topics- Just 22 per cent of people manage to eat the recommended five-a-day portions of fruit and vegetables, new research suggests. The proliferation of non-English signs in Auckland is making some… Audio

Topics - The Chief Coroner says lives are being lost because Government and other agencies are ignoring coroners' recommendations. Opposition parties say a loyalty scheme for shares in state-owned… Audio

This week's Complaints Choir, John Key isn't opposed to gay marriage, breastfeeding controversy, and Pike River families vow to stop Solid Energy mining the site if that's what's needed to recover the… Audio

Topics - Is it ok to skip breakfast? What about replacing Christchurch's devastated CBD with a massive lake? Audio