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11:45 AM.Film and TV correspondent Perlina Lau joins Kathryn to talk about Origin (cinemas), a thought-provoking film based on Isabel Wilkerson's best-selling book Caste: The Origins of our Discontents. She'll… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.As a cellphone ban comes into force this term for school kids, Nine to Noon looks at the issue of when to get a phone for your child. While many - if not most - of us had a phone-free childhood, the… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Technology commentator Mark Pesce has a roundup of the weirdest AI news this week, including the Baltimore gym teacher accused of using an AI voice clone to get a high school principal fired for a… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Over the next couple of months, up to 300 birds will move off the Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari to other parts of the North Island in what is believed to be the country's biggest ever kiwi… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Lissa Michell reviews A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Journalist and author Juan Gomez-Jurado is one of Spain's most successful contemporary writers.  Read more Audio

9:45 AM.UK correspondent Matt Dathan reports on the first migrant being relocated to Rwanda, but under a separate voluntary scheme. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Rising unemployment is seeing more people in mediation - putting pressure on already stretched services.  Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Charities supporting more than half a million New Zealanders have reported a 40 percent increase in food demand last year - 2023.  Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Science commentator Jen Martin joins Kathryn to talk about which domestic dog breeds have the best sense of smell, new research into why people keep secrets. Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Artist and writer Lily Duval's latest book tells the stories of the insects of Aotearoa, in the hopes of changing attitudes towards them. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.With Anzac Day just gone, this week Ian Chapman reflects on his father's experiences in the Royal New Zealand Navy during World War II. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Simon looks at a new Curia poll revealing who Aucklanders favour as their next mayor. Simon Bridges is out in front, with Paula Bennett and Wayne Brown trailing behind.  Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Sonja de Friez reviews Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff published by Hachette Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Loren Taylor's latest project is one she wrote, directs and stars in: The Moon is Upside Down. She's joined by a stellar cast that includes Elizabeth Hawthorne, Victoria Haralbidou and Robyn Malcom. Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Australia correspondent Bernard Keane talks about a commitment of a billion dollars by the Labor government to entice a US quantum computing firm to build in Queensland.  Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Later this month the Commerce Commission will lay out what it thinks lines companies should be able to spend on infrastructure and recoup from customers.  Read more Audio

9:05 AM.A maternal and perinatal health researcher says New Zealand's rate of pre-term births is continuing to rise, while repeated recommendations on how to prevent it don't get acted on.  Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Sports commentator Glen Larmer. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Elspeth Kerr was a prominent nurse in the Auckland suburb of Devonport in the 1930s and faced three trials over the poisoning of her foster daughter Betty.   Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Rebecca discusses the arrest of Michael Chai, the director of a New Zealand-based company Blackwell Global Holdings.  Read more Audio

10:50 AM.For decades, the classic Kiwi sock brand Norsewear has provided relief from the big freeze - and economic survival for the small North Island village of Norsewood, near Napier. It now as now has a… Read more Audio

10:32 AM.Ralph McAllister reviews My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand published by Century. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Best-selling author and Stanford University medical school professor Abraham Verghese has a new novel. Read more Audio

9:55 AM.he US Supreme Court has heard an extraordinary case, in which Donald Trump's lawyers argued that presidents should have blanket immunity for criminal acts committed during their presidencies. And the… Read more Audio