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1:35 PM.After his lifestyle took a dive during Amsterdam's lockdown, Grant Caunter gave up alcohol. He's now back in New Zealand, running the zero-alcohol brewery State of Play. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.On Sunday afternoon The Warriors celebrated their first game on home soil in almost three years with a win. At the same time, New Zealand celebrated our first female NRL commentator taking the mic… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.First today, a ground-breaking agreement has been struck which will see both New Zealand's professional women's and men's cricketers receive the same pay for the same work on the same day.  Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Picture that famous scene from Jerry Maguire; A successful sports agent has a crisis of conscience and decides to shift his focus and deal with clients in a new way. Something similar happened to… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Many of us are feeling the squeeze from rising inflation. At times like these the weekly grocery bill is often the first area we cut back on. So today's expert is registered nutritionist Amanda Brien… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Sydney based correspondent Brad Foster has the latest on the deluges across the city, with many suburbs recording a month's worth of rain over a few days. He also talks about the Wallabies beating… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Today Guy Williams talks to Jesse about a youtube series called History OverSimplified, Drive to Survive on Netflix and his own show, New Zealand Today which is on Three and Three Now. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.We talk to a non-profit group sharing their knowledge and skills to help Whanau in hardship help themselves. SuperGrans Tairawhiti is a registered foodbank. Its General Manager, Linda Coulston talks… Read more Audio

1:25 PM. At the Big Screen Symposium in Tamaki Makarau this weekend, a panel of writers will compare and contrast working in ideas for games, film and television. Panellist Henry Feltham from Dunedin talks to… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.This week's critter loves stinky seaweed - the rottener, the better! The hairy kelp fly (Chaetocoelopa littoralis) feeds, mates, and breeds in the wrack zone of our beaches, putting up with harsh… Read more Audio

3:25 PM.Today Lynda talks about an initiative launched by the Royal Horticultural Society in the UK, calling on gardeners not to dig for victory (as in wartime vege growing) but to dig for victory against… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Today food stylist and chef Kelly Gibney shares not one but two amazing breakfast recipes that are easy to make and can be made in advance. You can find out who to make her oatmeal here and the… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Charlotte is joined by Luke Buda, founding member of the The Phoenix Foundation but also a musician and composer in his own right. Last year Luke released his third solo album Buda which went on to be… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.A DOC Edge Film festival movie , The Island In Me explores a little known Cook Islands atoll of Pukapuka. Director Gemma Cubero del Barrio talks to Charlotte about the movie and the tiny atoll. Read more Audio

1:40 PM. Tourism Ireland's Head of North America & Australia, New Zealand, Alison Metcalf is also in the country. Charlotte speaks with her about Ireland's tourism and her trip to New Zealand which coincides… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Whaikaha - Ministry of Disabled People launched today. Prudence Walker is the Chief Executive at Disabled Persons Assembly. She was at the launch this morning, and she talks to Charlotte about the new… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.The recently signed EU deal  deal includes the ability to restrict cheese names in the future. Charlotte talks to New Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association board member, Daniel Shields of… Read more Audio

3:15 PM.Today Mary Holm's shifting her focus away from the woes of current Kiwisaver accounts to ways of curbing spending as the cost of living rises and mortgage interest rates increase.  Read more Audio

2:25 PM.For today's NZ Sporting history we're covering a history in the making moment from last night's tip off of the first match of the new women's professional basketball league, Tauihi Basketball… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.The second season of 'Good Grief' is available to stream on TVNZ+ today and the series will also be made available globally on AMC Networks' SundanceNow later this year. Co-creator Eve Palmer talks to… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Most of the news we hear surrounding ecology and wildlife is doom and gloom. But Dr Wiebke Finkler decided to approach it from a different angle with her book 'The Science of Hope: Eye to Eye with our… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.A parasite known as the 'varroa mite' is threatening Australia's bee population, sending New South Wales into a 'bee lockdown'. They were discovered at the Port of Newcastle on Friday. This is the… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Both Mātauranga Māori and marine science are informing PhD student Kiamaia Ellis’s research into the resilience of baby crayfish.  Read more Audio