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2:30 PM.It's time for our music feature and today we're playing some of the songs found in a mysterious old leather-bound ledger labelled 'Banned records' in the RNZ offices. Started sometime in the 1950s… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Time to find out what's hitting the headlines in Australia, our usual guy Brad Foster is on a well-deserved holiday, so we're pleased to have TVNZ's One News' Australia correspondent Jacob Johnson… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.We're going to chat books now and a new collection coming out in November is celebrating Auckland and some of the reasons people choose to live there. To share the details Anna Rankin joins Jesse, she… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Tim shares details of a massive deal announced last week whereby AMD is giving OpenAI 10% of the company. It's caused a lot of chat about the incredibly strange financial arrangements between three… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.The ice cream brand Tip Top turns 90 years old this month. From a small Wellington milk bar to a huge Auckland factory - the story of this company is a remarkable one. The ubiquitous summer treats are… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Love Actually is one of the most popular Christmas films of all time. And according to Wikipedia it's the 9th highest grossing Christmas film ever, just below Batman Returns, so take from that what… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.New Zealanders are leaving the country in record numbers, the latest figures from Stats NZ show overall migrant arrivals dropped 16% to 138,600, while departures increased 13% to 127,900. Nearly 48… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Drink, quit, relapse. For nearly 20 years, that was the exhausting cycle that ruled Katie Herzog's life. A journalist and podcaster, she tried everything: quitting cold turkey, 12-step programs, sheer… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.We all know the saying, you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends. Well workplaces are much the same, you can choose your job but you can't choose who you work with. Which can mean… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.We're going to talk classical music now because we've teamed up with the RNZ Concert team to bring you a game called Bangers and Match. Here's how it works, each week for the month of October, we are… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.TV Critic Linda Burgess joins us with her picks of what to watch. Audio

1:35 PM.Peta Mathias might be best known for presenting food TV shows, but she's also written 19 books. Nineteen! Her latest "It's been six weeks since My Last Confession" was released yesterday. Peta joins… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Traditionally most of us think of NZ as having a strong screen production industry. And that was certainly the case 4 or 5 years ago with seemingly jobs aplenty and heaps of international productions… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.Cashpoints is a new customer loyalty programme that has launched today. Its' co-founder Ian Sutcliffe - who was also behind the popular AA Smartfuel loyalty programme - promises that Cashpoints is… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Time to talk food now, and we've got Dish magazine Editor Sarah Tuck here to share some recipes .. she's got a new cookbook out with Dish Food Editor Claire Aldous .. it's called FAST Two and is… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Kate Rodger shares her must watch films: Went Up the Hill in cinemas now House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow) in cinemas and on Netflix from October 24 Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Time for Freaky Friday .. our chance to dive into the supernatural .. the odd .. the unusual. Today we chat to Harmony from Motuek about their unsettling experience in 1970s Portland. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.This weekend the third Whangarei Maritime festival takes place at the town basin. There will be boats - obviously - but also live music, a maritime careers fair, food and all the rest. This year, not… Read more Audio