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8:12 PM.Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us. Audio

7:12 PM.Michael Day is a New Zealand born and Australian based journalist and writer.He's also a Baha'i - and he's just published a book about his faith. The book is called Journey to a Mountain. Audio

8:10 PM.The Port Hills fire was big news, days of effort, a fatal helicopter crash, over a dozen houses destroyed, 2000 hectre burnt, but once th fire is out and the story slips out of the news there is still… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.University of Auckland ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke is on the show to share some tunes, this time from KRS One. Audio

7:15 PM.Dominic Hoey has just released a book called 'Iceland' and he's about to open a one man show called "Your Heart Looks Like A Vagina" Audio

8:12 PM.Uganda's Daily Monitor journalist Tabu Butagira reports on the Republic of Uganda, pop. 35,873,253 (est. 2012). Uganda and the United Nations are holding a solidarity conference in Kampala to raise… Read more Audio

7:07 PM.Dr Sy Taffel is a lecturer in media studies at Massey and the brains behind a conference aiming to educate and inform about plastics and our ocean. Audio

7:12 PM.Birgit Krippner is an Austrian photographer based in Wellington, New Zealand. Her specialty is capturing candid images using only available light. Audio

8:13 PM.The Taranaki Darts Open is on in New Plymouth this weekend Emma Wilson is one of the key organisers. I began by asking her how long the Open had been going for. Audio

8:12 PM.This week's cultural ambassador - our man with a hankering for Jamaican music - Miles Buckingham from the still active Radio Active. Audio

7:12 PM."Affirming identity through art" - that's the mission of the gallery directed by my first guest, Deidre Dahlberg. She runs Pablo Art Studios - where art is a form of healing as well as expression. Audio

8:12 PM.Thirty one years ago - Bill Logan was one of the lead activists - campaigning for the homosexual law reform - a campaign which was ultimately successful. Now he's involved in a new campaign - to… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.We've just past the shortest day - the other side of the sun from Christmas - and the New Year. But if many of our ancestors hadn't come from the Northern Hemisphere, it would be the New Year. For… Read more Audio

8:13 PM.This week's overseas correspondent on the line from Hi Chi Minh City in Vietnam is Lien Hoang. Audio

8:12 PM.Juliet will share how she fell into the cheese industry, and calm any concerns you have about a camembert crisis. Audio

8:12 PM.The finishing touches are being made to giant snails, bats, clusters of stars and a multitude of colourful costumes for this year's Dunedin Midwinter Carnival. Due to be held tomorrow evening, this is… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.RNZ Concert Sound Lounge host Charlotte Wilson raises the baton on contemporary classical music as well as recent releases of old masters. Audio

7:12 PM.Dr Eileen Webb has recently joined the Curtin Law School where she will coordinate the elder law program. She'll be talking about the banks and their responsibility in stopping elderly financial… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Brian Roper talks Jeremy Corbyn and our very own Greens and Labour. Maybe Andrew Little or James Shaw could take a leaf of out of Jeremy Corbyn's book? Audio