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8:40 PM.Getting the one drop on riddim, rocksteady, ska and roots and culture with deejay and toaster Miles Buckingham... the beginnings of rocksteady. Note: due to copyright restrictions, all music has been… Read more Audio

7:14 PM.Aero-artist Melissa Pemberton talks about the joys and challenges of being an aerobatics pilot. Audio

9:59 PM.Clue 4. Audio

8:59 PM.Clue 3. Audio

8:42 PM.Rebecca Henschke, editor of Asia Calling, reports from the world's fourth most populous nation with the largest population of Muslims, the Republic of Indonesia, pop. 239,870,937 (est.2010). There's… Read more Audio

7:14 PM.Keen cyclist John Boon returns having just spent his summer holidays pedalling down country lanes through Myanmar. Audio

9:59 PM.Clue 2. Audio

9:13 PM.Peter Hershock, director of Asian Studies Development Programme at the East-West Centre applies both Buddhist and ecological insights to envisage an outlook for a more fairly functioning world. His… Read more Audio

8:59 PM.Clue 1. Audio

8:45 PM.Key turning points that helped to shape New Zealand, with Te Ara editor & historian Jock Phillips. Continuing with the 1950s, the golden decade. Audio

7:14 PM.LA Times sports journalist Helene Elliott with a penchant for fast games with pucks and sticks on ice. Finally, it's the end of the Ice Hockey players lockout, and disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong… Read more Audio

8:40 PM.How to keep one's home in good order with Trades tutor Brian Thompson from Wintec. Audio

9:06 PM.Bryan reviews the major news events of this year. Audio

8:40 PM.Key turning points that helped to shape New Zealand, with Te Ara editor and historian Jock Phillips... was the 1950s really that conservative and dull? Well, there was the very royal visit! Audio

7:11 PM.Winners and those who had an off game in this past year, plus what to watch during the summer with Joseph Romanos. Audio

8:56 PM.This week's answer. Audio

8:08 PM.We invite you to guess what instrument Lenny Sarkovsky plays. Hint: there's a lot of them! Audio

9:59 PM.Clue 8. Audio

8:59 PM.Clue 7. Audio

8:44 PM.Green-fingered and Threatened Plant Scientist Dr Peter de Lange on the great bio-mass that grows around us... New Zealand's own Christmas tree, the pohutakawa. Audio

7:15 PM.Are cane toads now surviving by ingesting cowpats? - the danger of dung with president and founder of Kimberley Toad Busters, Lee Scott-Virtue. Audio

9:58 PM.Clue 6. Audio

8:59 PM.Clue 5. Audio

8:40 PM.Jivester, editor and publisher Fergus Barrowman just goes giddy at a snazzy bebop beat. Music played: 1. 'Darkling I Listen' from Jasmine Lovell-Smith, 'Fortune Songs' (Paintbox Records 2012); 2. 'All… Read more Audio

7:14 PM.21 December 2012 - apparently at least 25 million people around the world believe that this Friday is the date of a prophesied Mayan apocalypse, however, anthropologist A.Prof. John Hoopes from the… Read more Audio