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3:31 PM.Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, artificial intelligence has gone from strength to strength. We are now at the point where it is threatening to displace whole occupations and take over… Read more Audio

3:16 PM.It's another instalment of Solving the World's Problems, where Dave Armstrong gives their reckons on the issues of the day in today's edition. Read more Audio

2:33 PM.New Zealand rugby lost another great this week with Stu Wilson dying at the age of 70. For most of his career, Stu served as a winger, playing 85 games for the All Blacks and almost 200 for… Read more Audio

2:15 PM.RNZ newsreader reviews Lost Boys and Bush Deep! Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Rather than being cognitive extensions of our minds, our smartphones are parasites devices designed to steal our, money and data - says a team of Australian philosophers. A recent paper in the… Read more Audio

1:26 PM.South Westland Salmon Farm on State Highway 6 is surrounded by mountains, rivers and valleys. Whoever buys the farm from the Monk family will get an off-the-shelf salmon farm business complete with… Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Yesterday morning, the National Library of New Zealand began the process of destroying half a million books and says they're going to be shredded and fed back into the recycling system. The library… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Late last year an unprecedented number of green sea turtles, or honu, washed up on New Zealand’s coastline.

Many were nursed back to health and released back into the wild – and some were returned… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Revenge is front and center in American politics as the world witnesses the bitter break up of Elon Musk and US President Trump. Revenge is an addiction says Dr. James Kimmel Jr who knows the impulse… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.Violinist and musical director Peau Halapua talks to Jesse about her life, career, and favourite things.  Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Morning Report producer Katie Fitzgerald takes us on an overland adventure through South Korea & on to Japan. Audio

1:37 PM.A call has gone out to restaurants across the motu to buck up their ideas when it comes to their gluten-free dining offerings. More than 100,000 New Zealanders are estimated to be living with coeliac… Read more Audio

1:27 PM.Last year, Westlake Boys School headmaster David Ferguson left his job of 15 years to address a critical issue - a lack of teachers.  Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Broadcaster Sonia Gray has been on a journey to find out if psychedelics could be the answer to New Zealand's ongoing addiction and mental health crisis. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Dr Greg Walton is a professor of psychology at Stanford University. He says a kind word, a tiny shift in thinking or a feeling of belonging can create big, lasting changes in people's lives. His new… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Today for our music feature we're digging into the music of one of the 21st century's most unpredictable artists - Sufjan Stevens. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Brad Foster is our man on the ground in Australia. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Pip reviews Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton (Coffee House Press), American Precariat: Parable of Exclusion by Zeke Caligiuri (Coffee House Press) and Sound Museum by Poupeh Massaghi… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Time for Tech Tuesday and Mark Leishman is joined by Tim Batt. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.The commons or common land are cultural and natural resources available to all members of a society. In Europe they are prevalent but when early colonists came to Aotearoa they instead prioritised… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Around half of people with migraine disease turn to non-medication treatments to ease their symptoms, new research has revealed. The Migraine in Aotearoa New Zealand survey from University of Otago… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Figures like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson regularly pop up in news headlines and the stories about them are rarely good - yet they offer easy solutions to the question of what it means to be a… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.In her last book, she made the case that the sexual revolution sold women freedom but mostly ended up giving men more sex without responsibility. . Read more Audio