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11:05 AM.Music 101 host Charlotte Ryan joins Kathryn to celebrate the 35th anniversary of a special New Zealand song and take a look at who's set to play at WOMAD next year. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Quentin Johnson reviews Light Over Liskeard by Louis de Bernieres published by Penguin Random House Read more Audio

10:05 AM.A trip into Dusky Sound in 1974 led to Victoria Jaenecke's lifelong connection with Richard Henry. Appointed in 1894 as caretaker of Dusky Sound's Resolution Island, Henry spent 14 years - much of it… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about how events in the Middle East are spilling onto the streets in Australia, with pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli supporters clashing… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.Landslides are our country's deadliest and most costly natural hazard. Landslides triggered by the cyclone ultimately killed two volunteer firefighters Muriwai, condemned hundreds of homes, and left… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.It's being called Auckland's worst pollution event in nearly 50 years. It's two weeks since a massive sewer line collapsed in Auckland, leaving hundreds of litres of human waste pouring into the inner… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.A new book from retired journalist Tom Clarke pulls together some of the lesser-known stories of New Zealand's past. It has its roots in a service he provided to New Zealand radio stations in the… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Fonterra has raised its forecast farmgate milk price on what it says is an improved outlook. BusinessDesk investigations editor Victoria Young discusses just how much farmers should be celebrating… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.RNZ's Jean Edwards is in Christchurch where the race for the Ilam electorate is heating up again. Sarah Pallett's success was one of the biggest upsets in 2020, as the first Labour MP to win the… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Elisabeth Easther reviews The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith published by Hachette. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Glow-in-the-dark fungi, parasitic orchids, slime moulds that hunt the forest floor for prey - it's a lost world hiding in plain sight. According to ecologist Robert Vennell our forests are overflowing… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.The latest polling ahead of the 2024 presidential election has Joe Biden and Donald Trump evenly matched. And, Republican voters are more satisfied with former President Trump than Democrats are with… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Until his late 50s, Invercargill man Michael Kingpotiki would tell a "wee while lie" when he was given something to read, saying he didn't have his glasses handy. The truth was that the former farm… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.For over a year the $2m Healthcare Academy of New Zealand run by Yoobee Colleges has been sitting empty - even as thousands of more nurses are needed in the health sector. It's down to what operator… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Bill McKay discusses Te Matawai, Kainga Ora's new 276 apartment complex in central Auckland. Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Tina Duncan is a self-taught cook, caterer, cooking school tutor and the author of Plated: A lifetime love affair with food. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.With five days to go til the election, our political panelists discuss the campaign so far. Neale Jones was Chief of Staff to Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern, and prior to that was Chief of Staff to… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Around the motu : Mike Tweed in Whanganui Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Melanie O'Loughlin from Lamplight Books reviews Cheri by Jo Ann Beard published by Serpent's Tail Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Laughter is not usually something associated with the 1981 Springbok Tour but a new film manages to inject some lighter moments into a seminal period in Kiwi history. Uproar is a coming-of-age film… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Kathryn is joined by the BBC's Mideast correspondent Sebastian Usher. Israel is continuing its retaliation for the shock weekend strike by Hamas. He'll have the latest on the conflict, and also look… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.Auckland Council has unanimously voted to buy out about 700 flood-damaged properties, as part of a $2 billion cost-sharing storm package alongside Government. Category 3 homes, deemed uninhabitable… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Why is gang membership growing and how are gangs changing? Most recent figures from the police Gang Harm Insights Centre suggests there are 8900 gang members in New Zealand. This compares with 10,700… Read more Audio