1:10 Best Song Ever Written

Bicycle Race by Queen, chosen by Tony Gavin of Wellington.

1:15 Link 3 - music game

2:10 Ultra distance cyclist Joshua Kench

Race Across America is an ultra endurance cycling event that starts in California and  finishes in Maryland on the East Coast. Two hundred and fifty men and women from 17 countries took part in the race just a few weeks ago. Joshua Kench from Wellington was among the racers.

2:20 Former sled racing dogs retire to Nelson

Two former world class sled racing dogs, Joseph and Helene, have retired in Mapua near Nelson. Both dogs have competed in the Iditarod Great Sled Race, which covers 1850 kilometres across Alaska and the 1000km Finnmark Race in northern Norway.

See a video of the dogs playing in their new home.

2:30 Reading

Leaving Mum by Margaret Erlandson, read by Michele Amas.

2:45 Feature Album

Purple Rain by Prince.

On the Internet Nobody Knows You re a Dog3:12 Virtual World

OwnUpDude - The Tyranny of Anonymity, Your Life is a Trip, and 'On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog' (right). The classic cartoon by Peter Steiner, was first published by the The New Yorker in 1993.

3:33 Auckland story

There's a surfeit of cockroaches in Auckland this winter and seems the long summer-like temperatures could be to blame.

Identifying cockroaches

White-tailed spiders in NZ

Some recent news on carpet beetles

4:06 The Panel

David Slack and John Bishop.