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1:15 PM.Andrew Cranswick is part of a very practical project in Hawkes Bay, retrieving, repairing and sanitising some of the horticultural bins that were washed around the area. He's with Tumu timbers, and… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Erin Baker is an incredible triathlete, from the beginning of competing she was winning events, sometimes just a week apart. For today's sporting history we speak to Erin about her incredible… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.In Auckland there's an  interesting housing development called CoHaus, and after a long development process residents finally moved in around three years ago. We catch up with one of the residents, Dr… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.The Robert Redford-founded Sundance Film Festival is one of the biggest annual film events on the calendar. Earlier this week our own Libby Hakaraia was announced as the recipient of this years Merata… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.The New Zealand gold rush kicked off in 1861 after gold was found near the Tuapeka River in Otago. Now a Clutha museum is  bringing that history back to life. Tuapeka Goldfields Museum & Visitor… Read more Audio

3:22 PM.Giant kelp is under pressure. Can an ambitious underwater forest planting effort help restore this disappearing ocean ecosystem? Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Speed will be the hallmark of 2024. Life comes at us fast says Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist magazine and editor of the annual forward looking special edition, The World Ahead in 2024.

2:30 PM.For Bookmarks today we meet one of the incredible founders of Trade Aid, a not-for-profit business founded forty years ago, designed to help the lives of people in poverty stricken parts of the world… Read more Audio

2:18 PM.For this week's collectors corner we head to the Waikato where Helen and Brian Gibson have been collecting Christmas miniatures for the past 15 years. Read more Audio

1:51 PM.For 2024 we're starting a new weekly feature all about travel. Today we speak to Darnel Eparaima who enjoyed a cruise with her two young daughters, she's got some great inside knowledge about enjoying… Read more Audio

1:34 PM.Kiwi Melissa Gunn is one of the winners of an international short story competition, Imagine 2200: climate fiction for future ancestors, run by American magazine Grist. Read more Audio

1:21 PM.Lighthouse gin head distiller, Rachel Hall, is the one woman production line that makes and bottles every single bottle herself. But, she didn't always like gin. She speaks to Jesse. Read more Audio

1:12 PM.Evolutionary biologist Distinguished Professor Hamish Spencer has received international recognition as a new Fellow of the International Science Council (ISC). He's received the highest honour to be… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.While she was writing her book Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, Dr Hannah Ritchie had a picture of her younger self by her computer. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Ten years ago, musician, composer and podcast host Hrishikesh Hirway started a podcast called Song Exploder to get over his own writers block. It's now an internationally award winning podcast… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Back from the holiday break, Brad Foster reports on the Australian PM calling his cabinet ministers back to Canberra two weeks early to discuss the ongoing cost of living challenges for everyday… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.An Auckland couple, Grant and Amy Difford wanted to turn their love of mid-century pieces into a business, and the death of someone close to them was the catalyst to take that leap of faith. Grant… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.One of our listeners, a chap named Andrew, text in yesterday because they noticed a familiar sound missing from the usual summer chorus of cicadas and crickets. The bug man, Ruud Kleinpaste is with us… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.Alethea Boon is a high achieving athlete herself, representing New Zealand in both gymnastics and weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games. Now she's in a new role being a gladiator in the Australian… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Crispin Thurlow is  a professor of language and communication and he says, embracing mediocrity and having the courage to be ordinary may actually be the path to contentment. Read more Audio