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2:25 PM.Auckland R&B singer Sharnar was discovered at 15 after a video of her performing one of her own songs at high school got out. Now 22, she's already released three singles and has big plans for the… Read more Video, Audio

2:10 PM.Dan reviews Deadpool 2 and Swagger of Thieves, the new documentary about the NZ band, Head like a Hole. Read more Audio

1:48 PM.Van Halen - Van Halen. Read more Audio

1:38 PM.The move away from single use plastic bags is gaining momentum - the Warehouse today announced it is scrapping plastic bags from its 254 stores by the end of the year. It's replacing them with… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM.An online law business Consensus is throwing out the old billable hours model and replacing it with a fixed fee system. But there's more to the concept than just how the legal fees are billed. Anton… Read more Audio

1:19 PM.CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) are banned because of the damage they do to the Earth's upper atmosphere. But alarmingly it seems that CFC manufacture may not be a thing of the past. Emissions of CFC-11… Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Poet and singer songwriter, Bill Direen joins us to perform a song in our Auckland studio ahead of his show tonight at the Audio Foundation in Auckland, Expendable Animals: Songs and Improvisations by… Read more Audio

9:07 PM.Botanists have banded together to bring native mistletoes back to Wellington city, using seeds rescued from a plant growing on a dying tree. Read more Audio

3:29 PM.Esther Calje from Christchurch has a masters of midwifery and is currently a senior midwife and clinical leader at Christchurch Womens Hospital. She tells us about her thesis on the iron status of… Read more Audio

1:47 PM.REM Green. Read more Audio

1:34 PM.Kākā have nested metres from backyards and tui are “dripping off the trees” in a Wellington suburb where residents have been trapping predators. Read more Audio

1:28 PM.Yesterday New Zealand marked the international Day of Light - which is a United Nations event to celebrate the science of light. New Zealand in fact has its won committee chair for this day -… Read more Audio

1:16 PM.We talk to a Boston man who voted for Donald Trump and had high hopes for his presidency, and ask him if, after 18 months, he is still a staunch supporter of the President. Read more Audio

3:08 PM.The problem with Apu in The Simpsons –  which comedian Hari Kondabolu made a documentary about –  is not that a caricature of an Indian immigrant voiced by a white actor is offensive, he says. Read more Video, Audio

2:25 PM.Author, poet and playwright David Hill is talking about his favourite books, movies and music today. During his thirty year long career writing he's published forty books, most of them are young adult… Read more Audio

1:46 PM.Matamata portrait photographer Bianca Duimel is seeking red-heads of all hues and ages. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:34 PM.Ahead of the wedding this weekend of Prince Harry and Megan Markle, we take a wander back through the sound archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision to hear how past royal weddings have been broadcast… Read more Audio

1:22 PM.Diana Wichtel has won this year's Ockham book award for non-fiction. In her book Driving to Treblinka - A Long Search for a Lost Father the award-winning journalist writes of her journey to find her… Read more Audio

1:13 PM.Professor Ed Tate of Imperial University in London talks about an exciting development in finding a cure for the common cold. The drug will initially be aimed at sufferers of asthma and other… Read more Audio

3:11 PM.There's Hollywood's typical version of Motherhood; earnest, nurturing, always positive. And then there's The Letdown. Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Michael Le Petit heard our Great Album yesterday, Lionel Richie's Can't Slow Down, and says he was reminded of a possible connection between 'Three Times a Lady' and a not-so-well-known song by New… Read more Audio

2:16 PM.Popular culture is a place that has always given room to push boundaries, and pop music in particular has been bending gender since Little Richard in the 1950s. Read more Video, Audio