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11:50 AM.Australian artists boycott the Sydney Biennale, and the New Zealand Festival is underway in Wellington. Audio

11:35 AM.Employment law - redundancy during maternity leave. Audio

11:15 AM.Erykah Badu emerged during the late 1990s along with other neo-soul divas such as Macy Gray and Jill Scott. Her debut album, Baduism drew comparisons to Billie Holiday, but since then she has… Read more Audio

10:43 AM.Written by Alain de Botton, reviewed by John King and published by Hamish Hamilton. Audio

10:05 AM.Luke Harding is an award-winning journalist and author of a new book on Edward Snowden and how the Guardian broke the NSA whistleblower story. He is a former Guardian Russia correspondent who was… Read more Audio

9:48 AM.Chief Political Correspondent for SBS Karen Middleton speaks about the drought hitting Australia, further unrest at the Manus Island detention facility in Papua New Guinea, and this years G20… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.The paper 'Blackouts: A Sociology of Electrical Power Failure' is by Auckland University's Steve Matthewman, and Hugh Byrd, Professor of Architecture at the University of Lincoln in the UK. It is… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.Hillary Graham-Smith, NZNO Associate Professional Services Managers. Audio

9:08 AM.Former Labour Party president Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton, Nine to Noon political commentator discuss what the key appointments mean for the party. Mr McCarten, who stood unsuccessfully for the… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.The death of Charlotte Dawson in the media. The coverage of the the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Audio

11:28 AM.Australian Contemporary Circus artistic director, Yaron Lifschitz, who's bringing his troupe's new show "Beyond" to the New Zealand Festival. Audio

11:10 AM.Telecom's name change and plans for the future. Audio

10:40 AM.Written by Armistead Maupin, reviewed by David Hill and published by Doubleday. Audio

10:06 AM.Margaret MacMillan is a professor of international history at St Antony's College, Oxford. She discusses her new book 'The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War'. It… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.How the TV series 'House Of Cards' reflects the reality of US politics. Audio

9:42 AM.Professor Brian Cox OBE is an English physicist and former musician, a Royal Society University Research Fellow and PPARC Advanced Fellow at the University of Manchester. Audio

9:14 AM.In the second of Nine to Noon's election year, scene-setter interviews, Labour leader David Cunliffe fronts up to explain why the largest opposition party is struggling to gain traction in the polls… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Whau River and the Awhitu Peninsula. Audio

11:35 AM.Jas McPhee is a South Auckland mother of five whose recipes for affordable meals for a family has attracted a huge following. Audio

11:15 AM.Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams discuss the recent political polls. Audio

11:05 AM.Still Life with Breadcrumbs by Anna Quindlen, reviewed by Carole Beu and published by Hutchinson. Audio

10:10 AM.Elaine Tyler May, Regents Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota, looks at whether America's obsession with national security over the past half century made the… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Debora Patta with news from Africa including the Oscar Pretorius case. Audio

9:30 AM.Julian Tangaere of Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), on the current work it is doing in Syria. Audio

9:10 AM.Maureen Woodhams is the co-president of the Playcentre Federation. Audio