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3:22 PM.Caitlin Smith lives in the city of Sulimaniya which is near the Iranian border Read more Audio, Gallery

3:07 PM.Editor and publisher Peter Dowling is our guest on masterpieces this week and is here to talk about his favourite maori place names. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:20 PM.Mary Holm has tips for first home buyers , including how to time the market and the two ways Kiwisaver can help you with the purchase. Audio

1:31 PM.On a dusty outback highway near Australia's largest gold pit, sits the Hotel Coolgardie. Every three months a new pair of foreign female backpackers arrives to work there.  Each arrival is a big deal… Read more Video, Audio

1:20 PM.When Wellington man, Pera Barrett was 21 he woke up in hospital with serious injuries and head trauma. He was told he had been in a serious car crash. Read more Audio, Gallery

3:30 PM.A Christchurch woman is hoping to provide better role models for her peers. Herstory is an online photographic project that showcases women in a variety of jobs. Now its founder has taken the idea… Read more Audio

3:09 PM.When it comes to losing weight, food is not the enemy, your brain is. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Author and literary director of the Christchurch Writers Festival, Rachael King is our guest on Bookmarks Read more Audio

2:20 PM.'Buffaloes are beautiful' - that's the motto of Phil Armstrong and Annie Armstrong-Wills who raise a herd of water buffaloes just north of Auckland. They hit upon the unusual idea some years ago while… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.It is Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori - Maori Language Week this week. Today in our weekly segment from the sound archives, Sarah Johnston from Nga Taonga Sound & Vision plays us several radio recordings that… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:20 PM.James Ehrlich is the founder of ReGen Villages, a Californian-based company that's building sustainable integrated neighbourhoods, or what he calls, the 'Tesla of eco-villages'. It's using today's… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:15 PM.A petition is being presented to Parliament today, asking for past convictions for being homosexual to be expunged. The Campaign to Pardon Gays in Aotearoa started in late 2014, and the organiser is… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Animal intelligence has been underestimated for centuries according to world renowned biologist Frans de Waal. He challenges our assumptions about what animals are capable and wonders if we are just… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.In the early 80's it was impossible to pick up a music magazine, or a woman's publication with reading about or seeing a photo of Sharon O'Neill. Today we feature "Words", her 1980 album, and the… Read more Video, Audio