1:10 Best Song Ever Written

Tomorrow Night by the Front Lawn as chosen by Linda Sanders of Onekaka.

1:15 8 Months To Mars - what would well-known people do on an trip to Mars?

Kip Chapman and Brad Knewstubb, creators of created the live theatre phenomenon Apollo 13 - Mission Control, a play where the audience gets to interact with the cast in an effort to return three stranded American astronauts safely to Earth, based on the real events of April 1970.

2:10 Feature Stories

A New Zealand adventurer is on a quest to recover some controversial Yeti artifacts, stolen from a monastery in a remote village in Nepal. Mike Allsop, who climbed Everest himself three years ago, has worked with Weta Workshop to give the monastery replicas of the bones, and will hand them over next year.

www.returnthehand.com

Legend has it that one of the most loved creatures from the insect world, the red and black ladybird, can bring you good luck. But luck is not shinning on the ladybirds in the Manawatu. Ladybirds are dying by the thousands after an unusally dry November. One homeowner in the Cloverlea area said she returned home one day to find hundreds of dead ladybirds on her windowsill and carpet.

2:30 Reading

Episode 11 of The Mesmerist by Barbara Ewing.

2:45 He Rourou

Bay of Plenty elder Rereamanu Wihapi says he has increasingly come to appreciate the value of inter-iwi information exchange. Ana Tapiata talks with Rereamanu about how other tribes have taught him his own history.

2:50 Feature Album

Need You Now by American country music group, Lady Antebellum.

3:12 Author Slot

Whether it's secret service agents, CIA sharpshooters or presidents who sometimes commit crimes, American author David Baldacci's prose strolls stylishly through it all. Few have mastered the thriller or political thriller genre with such an accomplished hand as this lawyer-turned-writer, David Baldacci. Now the man behind the fictional but famous Camel Club has published his latest novel, Hell's Corner.

www.davidbaldacci.com

3:47 Our Changing World

The Nest - Te Kōhanga is Wellington Zoo's animal hospital and centre for native wildlife. The $6 million purpose-built facility is approaching its first anniversary and Amelia Nurse paid them a visit to see how things are going.

4:06 The Panel

Stephen Franks and Dita de Boni