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3:22 PM.For a last Talk the Walk of the year we welcome back Stephanie Chernishov who takes her young family tramping on multi day walks regularly, and joins us from Waikato to tell me about the Hope Arm… Read more Audio, Gallery

3:08 PM.When the great opera singer Luciano Pavarotti first visited New Zealand in 2004, Julie Biuso was invited to cook for him. She made a Kiwi-style glazed ham which he pronounced to be 'magnifique'. Read more Audio

2:27 PM.Gray Bartlett MBE has been part of the New Zealand music scene furniture as a guitarist and as a concert promoter for 60 years. He plays a collection of covers and Christmas songs with 16-year-old… Read more Video, Audio

2:10 PM.Our regular film critic Richard Swainson picks his top 10 movies of the year. Read more Video, Audio

1:37 PM.Participation is basketball predicted to top netball, soccer and rugby for secondary students within 10 years. Yet last week, High Performance Sport NZ announced that the sport will only get 150… Read more Audio

1:29 PM.Africa came out more than a decade before Javed Khan was born but he is still obessed with it. He tells us why. Read more Audio

1:17 PM.A new slightly tongue in cheek paper in the British Medical Journal asks whether the depiction of alcohol on greeting cards undermines public health messages about harmful drinking. Read more Audio

9:00 AM.Coming soon -- the most anticipated animated movie event of the summer! And Ken delivers his heart-felt Xmas message.

By Paul Casserly

Voices -- Cohen Holloway, Paul Casserly

Studio engineer -… Read more Audio

2:36 PM.Historian Grant Morris looks at the debate over whether his university, Victoria, should change its name to University of Wellington. He looks at the two individuals involved; Queen Victoria and the… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.A group of scientists have found the best way to stop people from gaining weight over the festive season. Dr Yoram Barak from Otago University's Deparment of Psychological Medicine has been reading… Read more Audio

1:36 PM.RNZ's Susan Strongman used to think she was too cool for Shania Twain - but it seems she was kidding herself. Read more Audio

1:28 PM.Food production is a really carbon-intensive process, with some claiming it makes between 19 and 29 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.Kauri are a symbol of New Zealand, but in kauri dieback they face an existential crisis which we are not taking as seriously as we need to. Read more Audio

7:00 AM.Did you know that the tomato only became popular locally about 1920? Or that brussels sprouts and silverbeet didn't catch on until the 1930s? Our national diet has undergone massive changes in the… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.In our modern world of fast moving technology and instant messaging, we've lost the ability to wait well, says professor Jason Farman. Read more Audio

2:25 PM. Kathryn Leafe from the New Zealand Needle Exchange joins us to chat books, movies, music, and her working life. Read more Audio

1:37 PM.As the millennium drew to a close in December 1999, the world was either ready to party at massive New Year's Eve celebrations - or braced for impending doom, due to the so-called Y2K "bug" which many… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:28 PM.Designer Alena Woo has written a short guide to Chinese table etiquette, providing a gateway for New Zealanders to understand how to act and behave when they're breaking bread with Chinese friends or… Read more Audio, Gallery