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9:30 AM.Wits University associate professor Marcus Byrne was awarded an Ig Nobel with his Swedish colleagues for their work on dung beetle navigation. He's also researched how to control alien weeds. Marcus… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The Taranaki Outdoor Pursuits and Education Centre (TOPEC) has been ordered to pay emotional harm reparation totalling $269,000 - to both the bereaved families and to the survivors of the August 2012… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Siouxsie Wiles discusses open access and open science plus the discovery of a new strain of Clostridium botulinum with a toxin for which there is no antitoxin. Audio

11:35 AM.Mai Chen discusses Christchurch school closures and mergers. Audio

11:10 AM.Influential early-1970s New York City punks, ahead of their first-ever New Zealand show on Thursday. Audio

10:40 AM.Phil Vine reviews 'Self-Portrait' by Marti Friedlander and Hugo Manson, published by Auckland University Press. Audio

10:10 AM.Australian Paul Fenwick, on getting more people involved in open source software and how difficult it is to have privacy in this high tech age. Audio

9:50 AM.Fairfax correspondent Peter Munro discusses the legalisation of same-sex marriage in the Australian Capital Territory. Audio

9:35 AM.Shona Laing has been awarded the New Zealand Music Awards Legacy Award. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Michael Gallacher, the NSW Minister for Police and Emergency Services. Audio

9:10 AM.Dr Willem de Lange, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Waikato, and Corporate Affairs Manager of Anadarko New Zealand, Alan Seay, discuss the oil… Read more Audio

11:46 AM.The media coverage of the 'Len Brown' affair. The reporting of Greg King's suicide. Audio

11:27 AM.Dan Russell was working as a pilot when he inheritied Puketiti Station near Te Puia Springs following the death of his godfather. The inheritance was life changing. A book has been written about the… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin Group has launched a takeover bid for Canterbury dairy farmer Synlait Farms, in association with two of Synlait's founders. Audio

10:38 AM.Carole Beu reviews 'The Infinite Air' by Fiona Kidman, published by Vintage. Audio

10:09 AM.Eric Schlosser is an American investigative journalist and author, his new book 'Command and Control' is an expose of America's nuclear weapons mishaps. Audio

9:50 AM.The continued fallout from the recent US government shutdown. Audio

9:44 AM.The unearthing of a 1.8 million year old hominid skull in Georgia which has prompted a rethink of our human origins. David Lordkipanidze of the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi is leading the study… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.With Peter Neilson - Financial Services Council chief executive. Ralph Stewart - head of New Zealand Income Guarantee Limited. Audio

9:08 AM.With Mark Greenhill - Blue Mountains Mayor. Peter Munro - Sydney Morning Herald correspondent. Audio

11:45 AM.Kennedy Warne explores South Westland, and reports that NZ photographer Robin Hammond has won photojournalism's equivalent of the Booker. Audio

11:32 AM.Hamiltonian Rowan Bishop love of food has spanned 30 years. She has run her own catering company and written five cookbooks. Her latest is Rowan Bishop with Relish: Fine Chutneys, Pickles and More. Audio

11:07 AM.The Len Brown matter, and Winston Peters' new bottom-line policy. Audio

10:37 AM.John King reviews 'Kraus Project' by Jonathan Franzen, published by Fourth Estate. Audio

10:08 AM.Kathryn Leafe leads the country's biggest alcohol and drug addiction treatment provider, she discusses her work in prisons and with the families of the Pike River miners. Audio