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9:05 AM.Health Minister Ayesha speaks with Kathryn Ryan about the state of the health system. Last week the Minister's office released a plan outlining how New Zealand's GPs and hospitals will cope with what… Read more Audio

11:34 AM.Sam Ackerman looks into the ways being mooted to refresh the competition, the former All Black who could come back to haunt NZ and why is Team New Zealand working with the most controversial… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Dunedin band Cloudboy's miraculous 2001 debut album Down At The End Of The Garden has just been issued on vinyl for the first time. We'll hear two tracks from that today, alongside a song from the… Read more Audio

10:50 AM.Tess has the latest on the Invercargill City Council shambles with a councillor and former stadium manager suggesting an 18-year-old employee would enjoy jelly wrestling naked. Nigel Skelt's comments… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Carole Beu from The Women's Bookshop in Ponsonby reviews How To Get Fired by Evana Belich, published by Penguin. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.The Transport Accident Investigation Commission's final preliminary report shows that KiwiRail failed to follow manufacturers advice about a critical joint in its cooling system on the interislander… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.She's one of New Zealand's greatest writers - yet at the end of her life, Katherine Mansfield was buried in a pauper's grave in France. Her remains were reinterred six years later in a tomb that for… Read more Audio

9:47 AM.Koroi discusses Immigration NZ's explanation of use of dawn raid tactics. French Polynesia is set for a pro-independence president, and Niue's general election results with six women MPs voted in, the… Read more Audio

9:32 AM.Writers will have a new place to meet and work in the creative heart of the capital later this month. There will be a seat at the table whether there's a book of poetry in the making, a novel, or a… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.A fault with KiwiRail's overhead power lines has caused commuter chaos across Auckland this morning, with train services cancelled across the city. The fault at Grafton resulted in power being… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.The results of a newly published study link young people's mental health with where they grow up. Data from nearly a million young Kiwis demonstrates the effect environment has on youth mental health… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Film and TV reviewer Tamar Munch joins Kathryn to talk about Pathfinders (TVNZ), a local series that looks at Maori leaders who were raised through the challenging years where te reo Maori was… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Parents determined to protect their children from life's everyday challenges can inadvertently stifle their emotional development, says clinical psychologist and mother of two Jacqui Maguire. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Tech correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to look at the merger of two of Alphabet's big AI teams: Google Brain and DeepMind. Can both put past differences aside to work well together? It comes as… Read more Audio

10:46 AM.There's a three stage bypass road currently being built in Queenstown, but Peter says it is far from clear what the destination of the bypass is. And as the local accommodation crisis goes from bad to… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Melanie O'Loughlin reviews Big Swiss by Jen Beagin, published by Faber & Faber. Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Every day seems to bring a new headline about artificial intelligence. Some are good, but many raise concerns about the impact of developments in the technology. This week the so-called "godfather of… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.UK correspondent Dan Bloom joins Kathryn to detail the 8000 seats being contested across 230 councils in England and Northern Ireland - as well as what good results would look like for Labour and the… Read more Audio

9:33 AM.A grim piece of Argentina's history is set to be returned to the country - a Skyvan plane once used in so-called "death flights" by the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. Victims of the regime… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Educators and public health experts want New Zealand to follow Australia's lead and ban recreational vaping to address what they describe as a growing epidemic in young people. Some school principals… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.In a surprise move Customs Minister Meka Whaitiri has announced she has left Labour and will stand instead for Te Pati Maori. She will not be ejected from Parliament under "waka jumping" legislation… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Science commentator Laurie Winkless joins Kathryn to talk about a big study that's looked at the scale of loss of elephant habitat in Asia. Over three centuries two thirds of suitable habitat - an… Read more Audio