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3:35 PM.Auckland singer song-writer Johnny Matteson has spent two decades spreading positive messages about mental health through his music. After being diagnosed with manic depression in his teens, he earned… Read more Audio

3:09 PM.Topics - Top free apps to save you time and money; 'Stalker' app pulled after 'tool for rapists' outcry; Google as in Australia searches misleading - court says; British Government to monitor the… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.A group of New Zealanders will be taking part on an epic journey. They're going to Mars - or at least a simulation of what a space station on Mars would be like. Audio

2:11 PM.The Australian mathematics and oceanography expert is running the equivalent of 700 marathons in 700 days. Audio

1:18 PM.Can you spot the connection in our music quiz? Audio

1:08 PM.Kate Jensen from Alexandra has chosen 'Lively Up Yourself' by Bob Marley. Audio

4:37 PM.Topics - An American endocrinologist, Dr. Robert Lustig, says sugar is as addictive as cocaine. Australia's new Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, is among a group of prominent Australians who have… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - The Economist says New Zealand house prices are the world's second-highest when compared with rental returns. From an email - We hear that "money salted away in trusts" cannot be touched. Can… Read more Audio

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

3:37 PM.Lynda Chanwai-Earle gets a crash course in the game of basketball, and rallies behind a scratch team of our New Zealand Chinese Under 18s as they take on the technical prowess of a visiting Korean… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.A new book by professor Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at New York University, 'Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Going Alone', looks at the trend and the implications it has… Read more Audio

2:22 PM.In what's believed to be a world first, a potential underwater phosphate mine is being investigated off the east coast of the South Island. Audio

2:10 PM.Scientists are saying the next large earthquake on the alpine fault may not be as imminent as previously thought. Audio

1:54 PM.'The Lorax' by Dr Seuss and its banning, change.org, Local web darling Xero, and cloud computing. Audio

1:48 PM.'One Day Like This' by Guy Garvey and his band Elbow. Audio

1:38 PM.Featuring - 'The Rook' by Daniel O'Malley and 'The Fine Colour of Rust' by P. A. (Paddy) O'Reilly. Audio

1:34 PM.David Brooks in the NYT reports that metaphors are not now an adjunct to speech, but they are becoming the very language itself. Audio

1:23 PM.Topics - 60 Minutes, Target, The Sinking of the Laconia, and New Tricks. Audio

1:09 PM.Deborah Stevens from Wellington has chosen 'Do You Hear the People Sing?' performed by the cast of Les Miserables. Audio

4:37 PM.Topics - An Auckland councillor is railing against what he calls 'shoebox-sized shops selling absolute rubbish' on Auckland's golden mile. The Norwegian adventurer Jarle Andhoey, who made an… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Topics - Of one thing we can be certain - ACC Minister Judith Collins' unprecedented defamation action against two Labour MPs and Radio NZ will be paid for from her own pocket as we've heard on the… Read more Audio

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

3:37 PM.A boatload of adventurers recently returned from a month-long voyage to the far south, from Bluff to Antarctica, with a mission to raise awareness of the Southern Ocean. The 'Our Far South voyage'… Read more Audio

3:20 PM.Author Valerie Davies wrote columns in the Auckland Star and New Zealand Women's Weekly in the 1970s and '80s. She wrote about single parenting, at a time when about 11% of New Zealand children were… Read more Audio

2:19 PM.After living under the mountain for more 20 years, the general manager of tourism for Aoraki-Mt Cook Alpine Village, Denis Callesen, retired at the weekend. Denis talks about some of the changes he… Read more Audio