Afternoons for Thursday 22 May 2025
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Groundbreaking step toward earthquake preparedness
1:15 PM.New Zealand is known has one of the most seismically active countries on the planet, however, there's no official early warning system in place. It's something that shocked Dr Chanthujan Chandrakumar… Read more Audio
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Auckland teen heads to Cambridge University
1:25 PM.An Auckland teenager is one of a small group of international students to be accepted to study at Cambridge University this year. He's also the only international student to be offered a place at… Read more Audio
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Sniffing out crime
1:35 PM.Nine new detector dog handlers and their dogs are joining crime-fighting efforts and border security in both Aotearoa and into the Pacific. They have recently graduated from the Dog Training Centre at… Read more Audio
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Your Money with Mary Holm
3:15 PM.Mary Holm talks to Jesse about the Government's changes to KiwiSaver in today's Budget. Audio
1:15 Groundbreaking step toward earthquake preparedness
New Zealand is known has one of the most seismically active countries on the planet, however, there's no official early warning system in place.
It's something that shocked Dr Chanthujan Chandrakumar, who has led a team of Massey University researchers to create a system that is a groundbreaking step toward earthquake preparedness.
He speaks to Jesse about creating the Earthquake Early Warning System, which is the first real-time trial of a community-based EEWS in New Zealand.
Lateral spreading happens when liquefaction stretches and tears the ground. This example happened during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Photo: Sarah Bastin
1:25 Auckland teen heads to Cambridge University
An Auckland teenager is one of a small group of international students to be accepted to study at Cambridge University this year.
He's also the only international student to be offered a place at Peterhouse College, which is the oldest of the Cambridge colleges, founded 1284.
Seventeen-year-old Kevin Guo from Mairangi Bay heads to the UK in September and chats to Jesse about his exciting future.
Pinehurst School student Kevin Guo on robotics team. Photo: Supplied
1:35 Sniffing out crime at the border
Nine new detector dog handlers and their dogs are joining crime-fighting efforts and border security in both Aotearoa and into the Pacific.
They have recently graduated from the Dog Training Centre at Trentham.
The dogs can sniff out not only drugs and banned goods, but also firearms, explosives and cash.
Chief Customs Officer for the Pacific Detector Dog Programme, Dave Huff, tells Jesse all about it.
Photo: SHELTON LEONG
2:10 Budget Special
We go live to Parliament for the delivery of the 2025 Budget, then Morning Report's Corrin Dann will be joined by a panel to break down all the details.
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3:15 Your Money with Mary Holm
Mary Holm talks to Jesse about the Government's changes to KiwiSaver in today's Budget.
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3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness
The mystery behind lunch atop a skyscraper in New York - we delve into the iconic 1932 photo of eleven daredevil iron workers sitting on a steel beam 250 metres in the air.
Photo: Charles C. Ebbets
3:45 The pre-Panel
Wallace Chapman and producer ... preview tonight's instalment of The Panel.
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