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1:10 PM.Today we start today with live music from visiting French-Canadian trio Vishten. Twin sisters Pastelle and Emmanuelle LeBlanc along with Pascal Miousse, are leading exponents of Acadian music, which… Read more Audio

3:09 PM.There is an escalating battle taking place on university campuses across the United States over free speech and academic freedom. Read more Audio

2:33 PM.After completing his doctorate at the University of Hawaii, today's music feature guest lived in a number of pacific countries before taking up a position at Victoria University in ethnomusicology and… Read more Audio

2:19 PM.Early last month on critter of the week, we talked about Leopard Seals. Since then we were contacted by those actually working with these fascinating creatures, and they have just had a pretty busy… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.34 girls from 13 schools across New Zealand arrived in Dunedin yesterday - and they want to change the world. They're attending Girls for Change Leadership Summit run by the Alliance of Girls' Schools… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Napalm Death are as notorious for their outspoken views on social issues as they are for their unique brand of heavy metal. They've just played a show in Auckland, following the release of their 15th… Read more Audio

1:18 PM.When the gas industry tried to stake a claim on small New South Wales community in 2010, the locals fought back.  Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Our first song today is being performed live by one of the Acts who will play at the Auckland Folk Festival next year The festival is on at the Kumeu Showgrounds over Auckland Anniversary Weekend, and… Read more Audio

3:30 PM.Flexibility and diversity will be the key to survival in an automated future, says environmental engineer and social entrepreneur Priti Ambani. Lynda Chanwai-Earle learns more. Read more Audio

3:08 PM.The ice cover at the top of the world is thinning and disappearing at an alarming rate. It's something that can even be seen from space. Peter Wadhams, Emeritus Professor of Ocean Physics at the Dept… Read more Audio

2:37 PM.Today's expert is Paul Evans, chief executive of WasteMINZ, who tells us all we need to know about recycling. Read more Audio

1:42 PM.Today's hidden figures is about fishing. Lillian Grace from Figure NZ is here to tell us about the number of fishing guides in the country and how many jobs are created in the seafood industry. Read more Audio

1:33 PM.October is Baby Loss Awareness month and each year Lucy Hiku and Jenny Payne from Tui award winning children's music duo Itty Bitty Beatswe release a new song about grieving the loss of a child. Jenny… Read more Audio

1:22 PM.An estimated half a million people walk around the Auckland CBD every weekday, but until now there hasn't been a strategy for better serving pedestrians – or a dollar value placed on improving the… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.This month is World Vegan month. Animal charity, SAFE, have embraced the month by signing up some well known New Zealanders to take on an all vegan challenge for October. They have called the… Read more Audio

3:30 PM.Pāua not only have highly colourful shells and make tasty fritters, they're also one of the fastest moving snails in the world. DoC's endangered species ambassador Nicola Toki tells us more. Read more Audio

3:21 PM.Laura talks about smoky teas. Read more Audio

3:07 PM.Former Masterchef Winner, Chelsea Winter is our food guest today - and she has a new cookbook out, called EAT and shares her recipe for Lemon Squeezy Slice. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Jasper Hawkins and his band play live in our Auckland Studio. We played his song Letter to My Mother last month - it was written for the family of his childhood friend who died in an accident - we got… Read more Audio