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8:12 PM.Philosopher at large Ann Kerwin often muses on the ways we can and could think... Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein - Plato is at Olympia University… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.A couple of years ago, Auckland photographer Jessie Casson travelled to Sri Lanka with her husband and three children (then 15 months, 3 years and 7 years) to meet their sponsor child Thanushan and… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:12 PM.MetService severe weather forecaster Erick Brenstrum on how a day doesn't go by without some weather... the behaviour of the latest El Nino climate cycle, and last year was the hottest on record -… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.The significance of opening access to Iranian newspapers that both charted the Western-backed 1953 coup d'état against Iran's popularly supported government and the 1979 Revolution - with Dr. Siavush… Read more Audio

8:10 PM.Last night's World Women's 20-20 Cricket final between New Zealand and the West Indies - with cricket aficionado Zoe George. Audio

8:10 PM.Chamber Music New Zealand's Hannah Darroch reviews contemporary classical music as well as recent releases of old masters. Audio

7:12 PM.How misguided theories of finance have led to an unhealthy relationship between debt and the modern economy - with Lord Adair Turner of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (London), and author of… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.Uganda's Daily Monitor journalist Tabu Butagira reports on the Republic of Uganda, pop. 35,873,253 (est. 2012)... its the eve of the ruling by Uganda's Supreme Court on a petition challenging the… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Our Changing World host Veronika Meduna recently spent time in Germany visiting family and friends, where she witnessed contrasting responses to what has been a dramatic increase in migrants… Read more Audio

8:12 PM.there's no such thing as a free lunch - with independent scholar Brian Easton... low interest rates and world secular stagnation... Audio

7:12 PM.In 2003, Upper Hutt author of 'In the Lions Throat' Bob Marriott and his wife Linda visited the Plain of Jars in Laos, a mysterious megalithic archaeological landscape... Audio

8:42 PM.Body movements, usually to music - with Chris Jannides, Toi Whakaari movement tutor and founding dancer, choreographer and artistic director of Limbs Dance Company... melding interactive digital… Read more Audio

7:10 PM.The Inside-Out Piano, is it the instrument for the future?!! with inventor Sarah Nicolls, UK-based experimental pianist at the forefront of innovations in piano performance and senior lecturer in… Read more Audio

8:42 PM.Reporter for Bloomberg BNA, Lien Hoang reports from the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, pop. 90,730,000 (est. 2014)... police have been getting a lot of complaints about Bitcoin due to it's use in… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.It was heady times when Tom Agee was working as an ad executive in the early 1970s, and his agency was engaged in a campaign to elect the first Republican senator in Virginia for 100 years.. Audio

8:45 PM.'Eating the berry' with Shannon Haunui-Thompson from Radio New Zealand's Te Manu Korihi team; from the proverb 'Ko te Manu kai Ana I te Miro nona te Ao' (the Bird that eats the Berry owns the World)… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Wellington photographer and keen mountaineer Andre Budd was on a climbing tour in the Himalayans when the earthquake struck Nepal last April... Audio

8:42 PM.Did you know that humans form two sets of teeth over the course of their lives - editor of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, Prof. Murray Thomson from University of Otago is armed to the… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Why the skull of Australia'a largest predator, the dingo, is resistant to change by hybridisation, which is one the greatest threats to the survival of the species - with Dr. William Parr… Read more Audio

8:52 PM.All eight clues and this weeks answer. Audio

8:10 PM.In the grandstands with the German crowds is Football Collective editor, American Dave Raish... the Champions League, the domination of Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich; plus it's and Formula One… Read more Audio

9:59 PM.Conundrum clue eight Thursday 17 March Audio

8:59 PM.Conundrum clue seven Thursday 17 March Audio

8:42 PM.the evolution of music made with devices powered by electricity and/or computers, with Paul Berrington aka DJ B-Lo... the birth of house and techno music in Chicago, New York, and Detroit... Audio

7:12 PM.the significance of Berlin's underground heritage, in particular it's alternative techno club scene, and why this 'culture' should be sustained and protected - with Prof. John Schofield, archaeologist… Read more Audio