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1:47 PM.Christina Persico is the bulletin editor for our sister station RNZ Pacific which broadcasts into the region. She is also a fan of cruising - Disney cruising in particular. She has no kids but last… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.A few years ago Oscar and Palme d'Or-winning Kiwi filmmaker Dame Jane Campion announced a pop-up film school called 'A Wave in the Ocean'. The project was supported by Netflix and ran as a 12-month… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.It's still winter for a couple more weeks and it's still pretty cold but if you're in Hastings you can Turn Up the Heat at your local library. Now in its ninth year, this adult only reading challenge… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.A major new study published in a British medical journal has found that verbal abuse in childhood can leave mental health scars as deep and long-lasting as those caused by physical abuse Researchers… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Kiwi born Alan Niven helped shape one of the most explosive, chaotic, and mythic rises in rock history as the manager of Guns n Roses from 1986 through 1991.  Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Gareth Shute's new book 'Songs from the shaky isles: A short history of popular music in New Zealand' was released yesterday. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Adding to the trans-Tasman rivalry, two New Zealanders won at Australia's TV Awards, the Logies. Sam Neill and Guy Montgomery were winners on the night. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Book critic Bill Hastings gives his latest recommendations; Julia Alvarez, The Cemetery of Untold Stories (Little Brown, 2025) and Josephine Baker, Fearless and Free - A Memoir (Penguin Random House… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Tech giant Google is taking action to verify how old YouTube users are. It says it will use AI to estimate the age of users and then show them age appropriate content. The move comes after Australia… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Imagine being lucky enough to not only buy a property with an established avocado tree but to discover that it was a little bit ... well ... special.  Read more Audio

1:20 PM.For surfwear designer Gemma Wagstaff, this New Zealand Fashion Week will be particularly meaningful.  Read more Audio

1:10 PM.How do you make Disney magic even more magical? You put it on ice, of course. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Time for our expert feature, the moment in the show where we put your questions to our expert. Specifically - what are they? how do they work? And are there any ways to manipulate them into giving us… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Matakohe is a village in the Kaipara district, about 45 kilometres south of Dargaville. It's famous for the Kauri Museum so we decided to give the museum a cold call to find out what visitors can… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.The Survivors is a six-part adaptation of Jane Harper's bestselling Australian crime novel of the same name. The drama stars our very own Robyn Malcolm. Our TV critic Caitlin Cherry reviews The… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.This week is World Breastfeeding Week - the goal is to the highlight the importance of breastfeeding and to encourage families, health professionals and communities to all work together to promote it… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Last Friday on the show, Jesse was discussing New Zealand fashion trends with Fashion Quarterly's Editor in Chief and unsurprisingly our national love affair with the colour black came up. One of our… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.This morning the Government proposed big changes to secondary school qualifications, namely, scrapping NCEA. They said the new system would still retain standards-based assessments and be underpinned… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.This week's critter of the week is the moko piriakau, also known as the forest gecko. They are renowned for their ability to easily camouflage to their surroundings and their incredible climbing… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.How good would a slice of sticky date cake with coffee buttercream be right now? Well, it can be yours, all you have to do is make it! Gretchen Lowe shares the recipe with Jesse. It's from her new… Read more Audio