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2:10 PM.Health authorities in Australia are on alert, with fears a man may have contracted the deadly Ebola virus. The Gold Coast man returned from the Congo two days ago and was rushed to hospital this… Read more Audio

1:21 PM.Alexandra is a place of very defined seasons and September is synonymous with it's Blossom Festival, an annual event since 1957. Organiser Martin McPherson discusses what has changed about the… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Andrea Bonetto of Wellington has chosen today's best song ever written, 'Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered' by Ella Fitzgerald (1956). Audio

3:45 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:30 PM.Aucklanders are being encouraged to create their own pollen hotels to help 160,000 hungry honey bees currently foraging for food in the CBD. Read more Audio

3:07 PM.The big Apple launch, 10 Things to know about Apple's new iPhone 6, Amazon cuts struggling phone's price to 99 cents, and Listen Up! Hearable computing is the next big thing! Audio

2:44 PM.The first album in five years by veteran Irish rock band U2 has been offered for free to the 500 million users of Apple's iTunes service. The surprise announcement was made at a California event where… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.How far have women come when it comes to taking on careers previously the sole domain of men? One University of Canterbury student believes there is still a long way to go. Twenty-two-year-old Chrissy… Read more Audio

2:07 PM.A British adventurer has arrived in Christchurch with his much-loved Triumph Tiger motorcycle, to embark on the New Zealand leg of his world record attempt. Twenty-three-year-old Rhys Lawrey is trying… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.We play three songs, each has something special which links it to the other two. Audio

1:07 PM.Anna Hughes from Quarantine Island in Otago Harbour has chosen 'Natural Resources' by Ani Difranco and Utah Phillips. Audio

3:45 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:07 PM.Professor Azzan Yadin-Israel from Rutgers University in New Jersey runs a course for first year students called Bruce Springsteen's Theology. The course analyses Springsteen lyrics for their biblical… Read more Audio

2:18 PM.A visiting British military historian, Dr Robert Lyman, is talking about his book 'Jail Busters: The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho'. Audio

2:10 PM.Over the past few months a supermoon has loomed large in our skies and researchers at the University of Canterbury have warned that this larger-than-usual moon may mean some localised flooding is on… Read more Audio

1:51 PM.21 Comics That Capture The Frustrations Of Depression. The Economist's glass ceiling index finds the best and worst places to be a working woman. Audio

1:41 PM.Featuring Peter Daube, Dave Ward and Dave Kahn. Audio

1:36 PM.'New York Is' by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Audio

1:21 PM.'My Kitchen Rules' and 'The Block'. Audio

1:07 PM.Richard Foulkes has chosen 'Drifting' by Jimi Hendrix. Audio

3:44 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:30 PM.Taking the cultural pulse of Christchurch - international workers have flooded in to help with the rebuild, but who are they and what differences have they found in the lifestyle here? Audio

3:08 PM.There were other humans earlier in the planets history, but Sapiens were the ones which came out on top. Dr Yuval Noah Harari explains how we did it, in a book called "Sapiens: A Brief History of… Read more Audio

2:46 PM.Roger Waters celebrated his 71st birthday over the weekend (Sept 6) with a world premiere in Toronto of his new documentary. The film is called Roger Waters: The Wall, and it's all about that Pink… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.We catch up with Zac and Josh Lyon on their Greenland expedition to cross the ice cap. They are now halfway through their adventure, having walked roughly 270 kilmotres, averaging around 19km a day… Read more Audio