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1:15 PM.Around 1am this morning the first lot of athletes arrived home from Berlin. Read more Audio

2:25 PM.As excitement builds for the upcoming 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup we look back of one of most successful football players here in Aotearoa. Wendy Sharpe debuted with the Football Ferns in 1980 when… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Michael Cockroft was a 33-year-old dad who'd just built a white picket fence around his young family's Wellington home when he was diagnosed with a fatal degenerative condition. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Every Sunday, Masterton-based Jann Lenihan ironed her work clothes, day-dreaming about the art she'd make if she had time. She began drawing the ironing board cover, and now, 20 years later Jann's… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:15 PM.Astronomers are bewildered by a planet that shouldn't exist. We know of hundreds planets orbiting red giant stars. The one in question is Planet Halla, in orbit of the star Baekdu, which was… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Two New Zealand patients will be the first participants in the world to join a phase 1 clinical trial to test the safety of a new therapy for myotonic dystrophy – a rare neurogenetic condition. It's… Read more Audio

3:06 PM.Celebrity has become a "weapon of mass distraction" that takes away from real heroism, says Landon Jones, former managing editor of People magazine. He explores how Americans became so… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.For today's Bookmarks we meet musician Brandon De La Cruz. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Nikitta Harmer reviews a podcast hosted by Johnathan Goldstein called 'Heavyweight'. It is a very heartwarming podcast where each episode has a different case/guest who come to him with a problem they… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.In the mid-1800s, a gentleman's club was formed in London for men connected to literature and fine arts. Named after the poet Richard Savage, there are 16 active clubs in Aotearoa today. Over the last… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Litter campaigner and artist Lorella Doherty spent 100 days of lockdown picking up litter from local beaches in Taranaki. Since then she's been turning the rubbish into a large-scale art exhibition… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Demand for Taylor Swift's Australian shows are through the roof, with snubbed New Zealand fans spending big bucks to see her across the ditch. Over one million people are signed up for pre-sale… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.A panel of experts have ranked alcohol as the most harmful substance in New Zealand, ahead of several illegal drugs. Twenty three drugs were scored against seventeen criteria to assess their harm… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Studying the science of happiness doesn't always make you happy. Gretchen Rubin is considered a global expert on happiness, with her podcast and books about finding ways to be happier. But she felt… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.According Lior Phillips, African music inspires almost all modern music. For today's music feature we're heading over to South Africa to explore South African pop music. Lior Phillips is the author of… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.It's quite rare to see an original Murray Ball Footrot Flats cartoon for sale Around five thousand of his pieces were donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library by his family. But one appeared on… Read more Audio

1:24 PM.Storing carbon dioxide in geothermal wells could be a cheap way to mitigate climate change, and New Zealand is well placed to do it according to researchers at the University of Canterbury. Too good… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.As we've seen in recent weather events, floods and slips go hand in hand. Martin Brook is an Associate Professor of Applied Geology at the University of Auckland. He has studied slopes in both… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.American futurist Kevin Kelly talks to Jesse Mulligan about the 450 proverbs in his new book Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Want great skin? Stop spending money on stuff you don't need and leave it alone, says one of New Zealand’s top dermatologists. Read more Audio