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10:45 AM.Nelson City Council has voted to publicly notify a plan change that will enable greater housing intensification in the city. It aims to make building up easier - instead of just building out. Mayor… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Ray Shipley reviews Bellies by Nicola Dinan published by Penguin Books Read more Audio

10:05 AM.A question central to the new novel from author Nicholas Sheppard is this: are monsters born or bred? His new work, How to Disappear Completely, is a psychological portrait of a young college dropout… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.RNZ Pacific Editor Koroi Hawkins discusses a vote of no confidence in Vanuatu which has led to a sudden change of government. And the latest on the fallout after an Indonesian official tried to bribe… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Being neurodivergent in a neurotypical world can be a lot to navigate. But for one young woman with Aspergers, ADHD, and Tourettes - music has become something of a roadmap. Fourth year Otago… Read more Video, Audio

9:20 AM.Hay fever season is descending, and for the unlucky among us who develop seasonal allergies, it might feel worse than usual this year. Climate change is thought to be driving a significant increase in… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Rheumatic fever rates are on the rise, and have now returned to pre-Covid levels. Despite other high income nations reducing or near eliminating rheumatic fever, New Zealand is still struggling to… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.NZTA has finished building physical safety improvements between Masterton and Carterton. There's a new wire median barrier and three roundabouts. Flynn says locals have been campaigning for the… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Ralph Mcallister reviews House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng published by Canongate. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Scientific research has taken Dr Chandrika Nath from pole to pole. As a glaciologist she has worked in Lapland and Antarctica, spending 100 days in the latter collecting data samples in extreme… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Matt Dathan joins Kathryn Ryan from the United Kingdom, where a suspected terrorist accused of working for a hostile state has escaped from one of Britain's oldest and most notorious prisons. Daniel… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.A group of 33 Otago students are running the Dunedin marathon on Sunday, in support of men's mental health. The Heavy Breathers had all had some brush with mental health whether personally, or through… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.The Commerce Commission has released its inaugural mobile and broadband customer service rankings, focusing on how well each provider looks after customers when something goes wrong. It ranked Skinny… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The official cash rate hasn't be hiked since May so why are home loans still rising? Yesterday, ASB raised its one year mortgage rate to 7.45 per cent. ASB's two-year fixed rate went up to 7.05… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Science correspondent Laurie Winkless joins Kathryn with three new fascinating studies. The first is into the effect extreme El Niño weather had on forest carbon sinks across South America -… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Psychologist Karen Nimmo discusses guilt, a feeling many people experience for a variety of reasons. So what exactly is it, how does it manifest, and why do we feel it? And perhaps more importantly… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.This week Music 101 host Charlotte Ryan celebrates the music of Nile Rodgers who has just announced NZ show, and talks us through the Laneway Line up and the changes to the boutique festival. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Around the motu: Susan Botting in Northland Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Have you got a pair of boots at the back of your wardrobe that you never wear because they hurt your feet? Or perhaps some scuzzy old Birkenstock sandals that have seen better days? Tauranga cobbler… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Chris Niesche joins Kathryn with an update on Qantas, which has been facing criticism of its sky-high profits and half billion kept in flight credits. Now its CEO Alan Joyce… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.A company owned by a New Zealand fin-tech entrepreneur is using AI to detect signs of accounting manipulation, and identify when a business is at risk of financial collapse. Transparently.ai works as… Read more Audio