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10:06 AM.Adam Kay has been very open with what turned him off working as a doctor and into a successful writer and comedian.  Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Israel is preparing for an offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah as the UK considers sending its troops to help deliver aid via a new sea route.  Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Black wood pellets are seen as a potential silver bullet replacement for coal by major industrial users in New Zealand like Fonterra and Genesis Energy.  Read more Audio

9:25 AM.The Mental Health Foundation warns preparing the sector to pick up all mental health-related emergency calls could take a decade.  Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The police pay dispute is now in the hands of a third party, who will decide whether or not they should be earning more.  Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Comedians Michele A'Court and Irene Pink look at the lighter moments of the week. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Sports commentator Sam Ackerman Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Music commentator Jeremy Taylor has reissues from Air, Spice Girl Emma Bunton and Kirsty MacColl, plus an outlier track from the new Taylor Swift album. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Peter Newport is Managing Editor, Crux, based in Arrowtown Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Gail Pittaway reviews How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin published by Hachette Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Mansoor Hamayun has grown his Bboxx company out of a university project that set up six villages in Rwanda with electricity - and now he wants to expand that to tens of millions more people in… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.The marathon Indian election is underway with Prime Minister Narendra Modi eyeing up his third five-year term in power. Also: espionage arrests in China, and Taiwan debates the death penalty. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.In the past six months, redundancies have been signalled across both the private and public sectors.  Read more Audio

9:20 AM.From next week, the kids will be back. But TikTok and messaging in the classroom won't be. The government's cellphone ban kicks in from term two. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Moves to make reporting of suspected child abuse mandatory should be treated with caution, says Safeguarding Children group. Read more Audio

11:45 AM.As thousands of jobs are cut, particularly through the public sector, Lisa joins Kathryn with some of her tips on what to do if you're being made redundant. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Taranaki seniors are showing it's never too late to summon strength, pulling off deadlifts and squats in a community gym group. Dane Carr, head coach at the Lion's Den Gym & Fitness Centre, tells… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Music 101 host Charlotte Ryan joins Kathryn to discuss the winner of last night's Taite Music Prize, play a track from Arooj Aftab (who was on Nine to Noon earlier this year) and celebrate Earth Day… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Mike digs deep into the rates rise signalled for the city - set at about 12 percent.  Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Jenna Todd of Time Out Bookstore reviews The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen published by Penguin Random House NZ Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Natalie Haynes is an author, stand-up comedian and self-confessed nerd. As a teenager she embraced Latin and Ancient Greek, before going on to study classics under the famed Professor Mary Beard.  Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Karen Middleton looks at how Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has taken on Elon Musk.  Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Another batch of New Zealand's most precious pasture seeds have been delivered to a doomsday mountain vault in Norway.  Read more Audio

9:20 AM.From tomorrow the amount of finfish and shellfish recreational fishers can take from inside Fiordland will be reduced. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The Police Association warns officers will not be able to confiscate gang patches in real time, under a proposed law change.  Read more Audio