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7:10 PM.Does the Global Open Budget Survey encourage your government to be better? Jonathan Dunn is an economic consultant for the International Budget Partnership. Audio

8:55 PM.Julia from Panmure. She chooses the song (Any Love by Rufus and Chaka Khan) for her husband Dave. Audio

8:10 PM.In the grandstands with the German crowds is Football Collective editor, American Dave Raish... the second to last round of Champions League football, also what it's like watching football in Ukraine.

9:59 PM.Conundrum Clue 8. Audio

8:59 PM.Conundrum Clue 7. Audio

8:45 PM.Comics: shading in the heroes and villains of an animated realm is cartoonist, writer, illustrator Adrian Kinnaird... the new New Zealand graphic novel The Heading Dog Who Split In Half: Legends and… Read more Audio

7:08 PM.Editors Robert Miller and John Dennison on An Outline of Psychiatry in Clinical Lectures, their translation of a collection of lectures by Carl Wernicke, a German pioneer of neurology and psychiatry.

9:59 PM.Conundrum clue 5. Audio

9:59 PM.Conundrum clue 6. Audio

8:40 PM.BBC Indonesia correspondent Rebecca Henschke <https://twitter.com/rebeccahenschke> reports from the world's fourth most populous nation with the largest population of Muslims, the Republic of… Read more Audio

7:10 PM.Former Guns N Roses keyboardist Dizzy Reed and Marco Mendoza bass player of Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake fame are in the Australian based rock collective The Dead Daisies and were recently supporting the… Read more Audio

9:59 PM.Listen in on Friday night for the answer Audio

8:59 PM.Listen in on Friday night for the answer Audio

8:42 PM.The rationales of individual freedom and personal responsibility with Eric Crampton, head of research at The New Zealand Initiative... when we can't be quite sure what will work, what's our best… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Adventurer and equestrian athlete Chloe Phillips-Harris along with friends she met at the Mongol Derby, traveled to the furthest north of Mongolia, on the border with Siberia, to search for the last… Read more Audio

9:59 PM.Listen in on Friday night for the answer. Audio

9:12 PM.Today would have been the 100th birthday of trail-blazing New Zealand composer Douglas Lilburn - 2015 Lilburn Research Fellow Chris Bourke looks at Lilburn's ideas vis a vis popular music... Audio

8:59 PM.Listen in on Friday night for the answer. Audio

8:42 PM.The importance of soils for food security and essential eco-system functions has been acknowledged by declaring 2015 the International Year of Soils, with Landcare Research scientist Pierre Roudier… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.Jared Noel, the young Auckland-based doctor and dad-to-be battling terminal bowel cancer who, when things took a sudden turn for the worse, went public with his quest to stay alive long enough to meet… Read more Audio

8:50 PM.Doctor William W Ahlers from Hornby Audio

8:12 PM.In a sports-mad country on the eve of the final game of the nation's most popular sport where the representative team is to stand against their traditional rivals, where does one find relief from such… Read more Audio

9:59 PM.Conundrum clue 6. Audio

8:59 PM.Conundrum clue 5. Audio

8:40 PM.RNZ Concert's Sound Lounge host Kate Mead raises the baton on both contemporary classical music plus recent releases of old masters. Audio