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9:59 PM.Conundrum clue 2. Audio

9:10 PM.Author of 'How to cook little fish (3): A hundred New Zealand Listener Cryptic Crossword puzzles with answers and explanations.', perhaps the help you need for those vexing cryptic moments. Audio

8:59 PM.Conundrum clue 1. Audio

8:40 PM.MetService severe weather forecaster on how the month of August was the hottest ever reported globally and it was accompanied by: drought in Papua New Guinea; below average Antarctic sea ice, and; a… Read more Audio

7:10 PM.Freelance journalist on the challenges facing Pacific Island leaders in navigating a path through several key issues and forging a collective vision forward. Read more Audio

10:17 PM.The family of 10-year-old Alex Fisher, have commented publicly, saying they are devastated by his death. Auckland Council insists it's doing enough to prepare the city to cope with a predicted… Read more Audio

8:50 PM.This weeks winner is Sharon from Christchurch. Audio

8:12 PM.BBC sports journalist Russell Fuller keeps the score court side... how those of Great Britain are feeling about their teams' performances thus far in this English-hosted Rugby World Cup (the final… Read more Audio

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

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

8:45 PM.Swaying to the broad range of arts and culture from around the Pacific is Samoan/Pakeha playwright and independent theatre producer Leilani Unasa... Pacific artists and public art: who's doing what… Read more Audio

7:12 PM.This year's coveted 'Major Contribution to the Understanding of Death Award' was presented to British pathology museum curator Carla Valentine, who is responsible for about 300 preserved human brains… Read more Audio

9:59 PM.Conundrum - clue number 6. Audio

8:59 PM.Conundrum - clue number 5. Audio

8:42 PM.Palmerston North raised journalist Motoko Kakubayashi now resides in Tokyo and works for University of Tokyo's Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Japan's pop. 126,434,964… Read more Audio

7:10 PM.The remains of an enormous stone monument near to Stonehenge has been unearthed by Prof. Vince Gaffney, Anniversary Chair in Landscape Archaeology at the University of Bradford, who leads the… Read more Audio

10:56 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.Religion Religious studies Prof. Douglas Pratt from University of Waikato on one's faith in God or gods... the character of Christian-Muslim relations. Audio

7:12 PM.On Christmas Eve 1972, Wellingtonian Lesleigh Salinger accompanied her Jewish husband Ralph, who was keen to learn more about his heritage, to volunteer at Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin in the Beth She'an… Read more Audio

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

9:12 PM.PediaPress is a German company producing Wikipedia articles as on-demand books, co-founder Christoph Kepper on why demand is growing for this user-edited encyclopaedia to return to the medium that it… Read more Audio

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

8:42 PM.Are we getting to the stage where we are able to 3D print food? with honorary associate Prof. Don Otter from University of Auckland's School of Chemical Sciences. Audio

7:12 PM.Can maths provide a much better account of human thinking than traditional models?

Co-author of Quantum Models of Cognition and Decision Prof. Peter Bruza from the Information Systems School of… Read more Audio