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3:31 PM.With biosecurity we think of sniffer dog at airports, but if Max Suckling has his way, we might be met by a bevy of bees instead. Max is a scientist at Plant and Food Research, and Alison Ballance… Read more Audio

3:09 PM.In a country of 1.3 billion people, there are more than a few good stories to tell. And for 10 years Peter Hessler lived in China looking for those stories and letting the stories find him. The… Read more Audio

2:23 PM.An Australian professor is chasing the interesting history of an elusive woman who lived more than 100 years ago. Retired law professor Ian Leader-Elliott picked up a book at a country town street… Read more Audio

2:09 PM.A discovery made by an Australian soldier nearly 70 years ago raises the question of who visited Australia before Captain James Cook and the early Dutch explorers. Maurie Isenberg was sent to run a… Read more Audio

1:22 PM.Shona was the best all round dancer in the class of '83, the year she graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance. She's taken leading roles with the late lamented Limbs Dance Company and with the… Read more Audio

1:08 PM.Julian Heyward from Whitby has chosen 'I'll Never Leave You' by Harry Nilsson. Audio

4:35 PM.David Beckham has announced he'll retire from football at the end of the current European season. Has the internet turned into a massive surveillance tool? Pope Francis has called on world leaders to… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Meridian Energy is the next state owned energy company up for partial sale. Does the Prime Minister risk causing widespread offence in Christchurch when he says there are "some hard luck stories at a… Read more Audio

3:50 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:40 PM.The Auckland Writers & Readers Festival is bringing more than 150 authors from around New Zealand and the world. The Festival started in 1999 as a biennial event, but with the popularity of the event… Read more Audio

3:31 PM.Sarah McMullan reviews the new adventure movie, Kon Tiki and also the British drama, Broken. Audio

3:19 PM.Cheap and Cheerful Matua Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2012 $9.99 (on special this weekend) normally $18 Mid Price Magic Peter Yealands Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2012 $18 Treat Yourself Mission… Read more Audio

3:07 PM.Jacob Brown from The Larder shares a recipe for Tagliolini with Mushrooms and Lemon. Audio

2:25 PM.The second in Amelia Nurse's little series on synesthesia, a neurological condition where one or more of the senses will evoke others. Sophie Wilson is a cellist - but her experience of music is… Read more Audio

2:07 PM.70 years ago today, 133 elite airmen in the Royal Airforce 617 Squadron, including a handful of Kiwis, flew a daring mission to bomb dams on the Ruhr River in Germany's Industrial heartland. The New… Read more Audio

1:22 PM.On New Zealand Live this week we feature the Lost Songs. It's an album containing 18 tracks that might well have been consigned to the dust bin, had the owner not taken a second listen. Audio

1:08 PM.Dave Watson of Auckland chooses this Joni Mitchell song. Audio

4:38 PM.Topics - Seven million adults in Britain have never used the internet, according to new figures from their Office of National Statistics. The New Zealand Herald is reporting that a flight from… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - The Finance Minister, Bill English, says the Government is on target to have its books back in surplus by 2014/15. Why GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is a 'Poor Measure of Wealth and… Read more Audio

3:47 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:30 PM.Kauri dieback disease is killing the trees in the garden of Colin McCahon House in Titirangi. It has no cure, there's no vaccination. Alison Ballance investigates, in a Waitakere Ranges forest. Audio

3:19 PM.The Beat Street Cafe is the latest to adopt the now global trend of "suspended coffees" - when your daily fix comes courtesy of someone you've never met. Katy Gosset found a cup of coffee can go a… Read more Audio

1:23 PM.An inland area in Central Otago comprised of a number of small towns linked under one community umbrella. In pre-European times the vegetation here was mainly flowing red tussock, hence the Maori name… Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Gordon Patterson from Tauranga has chosen "Fill the World With Love" by Petula Clark. Audio

4:35 PM.Topics - Australian researchers say if more people switch from sitting at a desk to standing at one, it would make it easier to reach regular exercise goals. The New Zealand Qualifications Authority… Read more Audio