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4:32 PM.Topics - You should celebrate your big day as if it's your last ... it may well be. Today we learned that mortgagee sales in New Zealand are happening at a rate of nearly six a day. Smoking could be… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topic - The ACC whistleblower Bronwyn Pullar has used national television to claim the Accident Compensation Corporation is actively trying to remove support for long-term claimants - She says only… Read more Audio

3:48 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:37 PM.Leaky buildings are constantly in the news and to avoid weathertight problems in the future, Mark Bassett from BRANZ - the Building Research Association of New Zealand - is looking at the movement of… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Our feature author is American crime and mystery writer, Jeffery Deaver. He's just released his new Kathryn Dance novel, 'XO' - he also talks about being chosen to write the new James Bond novel… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.One of the country's more unique holiday parks is on the market. Audio

2:10 PM.Henry Hargreaves is a New Zealand still life, art and fashion photographer working out of his studio in Brooklyn, NYC. Audio

1:20 PM.Barry Humphries as the lilac haired, rhinestone spectacled Dame Edna Everage, has been entertaining and shocking audiences the world over since the 1950s. Audio

1:08 PM.Walter Kilgour has chosen 'All I See Is You' by Dusty Springfield. Audio

4:35 PM.Topics - The Cook Street Chorus with your complaints for another week. The FBI is warning that hundreds of thousands of computers will simultaneously lose access to the internet on July 9, unless… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - Would you call any move towards "judicial control of some womens' reproductive rights another insidious step on the slippery road to State eugenics"? The value of the average chief executive… Read more Audio

3:46 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:43 PM.One-hundred-and-twenty-six years ago this Sunday, just after midnight June 10 1886, the earth shook below the feet of villagers living in Te Wairoa on the shores of Lake Tarawera. After the… Read more Audio

3:26 PM.Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus 3D' and the romantic drama, 'The Deep Blue Sea'. Audio

3:19 PM.Jacobs Creek Reserve Shiraz 2009, Johnny Q Cabernet 2009 and Fonseca Bin 27. Audio

3:06 PM.Braised and BBQ'ed Lamb Neck Chops, Caramelised Cauliflower and Brussels Sprouts Audio

2:10 PM.A year ago this month, Afternoons producer and host Noelle McCarthy left us, the pull to return home to Ireland had become just too strong. She had been in New Zealand for nine years. She left Radio… Read more Audio

1:08 PM.Martin Buck from Wellington has chosen 'Have Your Heard A Man Cry' performed by Littlejohn. Audio

4:36 PM.Topics - Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who was Facebook's first president, says he's bored with Facebook and has launched a new service. The global economy's foundations are weakening, one by one… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.Topics - The Education Minister Hekia Parata has announced a government back-down on changes to the teacher-student funding ratios announced in the Budget. The Government is facing a political… Read more Audio

3:46 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:30 PM.Tom McFadden, aka the Rhymobsome, has been taking his special brand of science rap on tour, and Alison Ballance headed to Cardinal McKeefry Primary School in Wellington to hear Tom, and a crowd of… Read more Audio

2:23 PM.Mario Fernandez comes from a family in Mexico with a 180-year history of growing, processing and exporting coffee. He is certified to teach people the art of coffee tasting, the only person with a… Read more Audio

2:09 PM.Ray Bradbury, the popular author of 27 novels including the dystopian novel 'Fahrenheit 451', science fiction classic, 'The Martian Chronicles', and fantasy horror novel 'Something Wicked This Way… Read more Audio

1:19 PM.It's so small it can't really be classed as a town, just a small settlement in northern Wairarapa, just nine kilometers north of Pahiatua. Though there are 1600 residents in the immediate district… Read more Audio