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1:32 PM.Kiwi board game company Game Kings is making a board game aiming to help people learn te reo Māori and use it more in everyday life. Read more Video, Audio

1:15 PM.Cults and mysterious new-age movements seem to be popping up all over the place, so it seems appropriate that they're the focus of a conference this week in Manchester Read more Audio

1:08 PM.Dunedin four-piece Soaked Oats are back in town, having sold out venues across Australia over the past few weeks to promote their new EP, Sludge Pop Read more Audio

8:00 AM.In real life krypton is a noble gas which is commonly used in neon signs and laser light shows, says Allan Blackman from AUT in ep 41 of Elemental. Read more Audio

9:06 PM.Professor Rangi Mātāmua talks about the 120-year-old book which has preserved his ancestors' knowledge of Māori astronomy. Read more Audio

3:21 PM.Dr Grant Morris from Victoria University is currently in Japan and has been exploring the history of the relations between our two nations. Read more Audio

3:12 PM.One of the great conundrums of the age - e-scooters...800 of them have been on trail for the last two weeks in the capital, and columnist Dave Armstrong has had a go. Read more Audio

2:23 PM.Bruce Mason was widely regarded as New Zealand's best playwright, known mostly for The Pohutukawa Tree and his solo show The End of the Golden Weather Read more Audio

1:23 PM.Surgeon Richard Babor treats many cancer patients, and inevitably he's faced with the same question – 'How could I have prevented this?' In the new TVNZ series How Not To Get Cancer, Babor explores… Read more Audio

1:14 PM.It's estimated more than five percent of New Zealanders live with diabetes, but many people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes don't regularly take their medicine. Read more Audio

7:00 AM.In 1995 rugby dropped its amateur ethos and went openly professional - but not before nearly tearing itself in two. Produced by Justin Gregory Read more Audio

3:15 PM.Most of the time, when a species goes extinct, it happens in solitude without fanfare or a goodbye. Not for George, the last known survivor of a species of Hawaiian brown snail. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Our Bookmarks guest today takes her role as an indigenous film maker very seriously, but having a Pakeha Mum and a Maori dad, being comfortable with her Maoriness wasn't always something that came… Read more Audio

1:34 PM.Nga Taonga today celebrates the 80th birthday of The Listener. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:25 PM.Former Prime Minister and keen mountaineer Helen Clark was in Nepal to mark Sir Ed Hillary's 100th birthday. She explains how important Sir Ed's trust is for the Nepalese. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:15 PM.The last known death due to a katipo spider bite was in 1901. That was a woman, Dora Jepson. Her granddaughter Rita Hague spoke to Jesse about what unfolded. Read more Audio

1:10 PM.PERE, a dynamic new talent has cracked it on debut! Riding high with his first single High on Ingoingo. This  has been in the making since 2011. PERE is proud to join us today for First Song. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff says we are being used by the internet and is challenging us to better understand the significance of data as currency in her book, The Age of… Read more Audio

2:07 PM.We asked you to suggest songs about breaking up for today's music feature, and got hundreds of suggestions! We play the top 20. Read more Audio