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10:45 AM.Local Democracy Reporter Jonathan Leask joins Kathryn to talk about the $5.6m budget blowout to Ashburton's new library and civic centre - and the pledge by the Mayor that it won't cost ratepayers any… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Quentin Johnson reviews TAXTOPIA by The Rebel Accountant, published by Hachette Read more Audio

10:20 AM.Kathryn meets the founders of a new organisation of young people from the food and fibre industry who want radical change in the farming sector. Future Farmers is co-founded by Finn Ross and Aimee… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.RNZ journalist Bill Hickman on the Independent Police Complaints Authority's inquiry into the police handling of the 2022 parliament protest. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.UK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Kathryn to talk about the government's immigration bill to curb small boat crossings and where it fits with the European Convention on Human Rights, deputy Prime… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Last month Auckland Airport announced an overhaul to its 57-year-old domestic airport. Plans have been in the works for nearly 12 years, with the company consulting with its major airline customers on… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.A new law targeting on-line grooming is being welcomed, meanwhile there's frustration end-to-end encryption on social media platforms presents a solid barrier to the identification of on-line sex… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Science commentator Laurie Winkless joins Kathryn to talk about a global view of who is most at risk of severe flu symptoms and even death. University of Melbourne did a meta-analysis of studies… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.It's 1917 in Messines and a shell-splinter has just hit the knee of Lindsay Inglis, a Kiwi soldier. He's given an anti-tetanus serum from a syringe the "size of a bicycle pump" and told he's just… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Music 101 host Charlotte Ryan joins Kathryn to play some music from last night's Taite Music Prize winner, Princess Chelsea. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.RNZ Taranaki reporter Robin Martin joins Kathryn to look at the significant recent Treaty settlement in the region which, among other things, consigns the 'Mount Egmont' name for Taranaki Maunga to… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Ash Davida Jane reviews Ithaca by Alie Benge, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Silva Mcleod joins Kathryn Ryan to talk about her life, her 30-year aviation career and the new memoir Island Girl to Airline Pilot: A Story of Love, Sacrifice and Taking Flight. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst joins Kathryn to talk about the Voice referendum and the Albanese government considering a possible tweak to the wording as it seeks to improve its chances of… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.A new survey finds over half of our children are exercising less than an hour a day. That's under what is universally recommend by public health physicians for daily exercise. New Zealand, US and UK… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.A month after the Wairoa mayor Craig Little asked the Hawkes Bay Regional Council to launch an inquiry into the February floods he's still waiting for an official response. Up to 400 homes on the… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.The two hottest sporting teams in the country are separated by the Bombay hills and two extra (or fewer, depending how you look at it) players on the field. Commentator Sam Ackerman looks at how the… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Inge Woolf was born in 1934 to a prosperous Jewish family in Vienna, but by 1938, the Nazis were marching into her hometown. What follows is a remarkable story of courage and escape for Inge and her… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Business commentator Rebecca Stevenson joins Kathryn to talk about a scheduled US court appearance this week for Rupert Murdoch over claims his right-wing news channel Fox attempted to ruin the… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.NZ Herald reporter Georgina Campbell joins Kathryn for the latest on the faulty streetlight saga in Wellington, after a plan to stop light shining into people's homes were spectacularly wrong… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Lynn Freeman reviews The Deck by Fiona Farrell, published by Penguin Random House NZ. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.A Kiwi historian is helping with the detective work linking The Guardian to 19th Century trans-Atlantic slavery. On the face of it, it would seem incongruous to associate the liberal Guardian with… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.US correspondent Ron Elving joins Kathryn to talk about why all eyes are on the Supreme Court, as it weighs whether to rule immediately on the mifepristone abortion drug issue or push it out till… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.A collaborative conservation project to rewild the Hauraki Gulf with green lipped mussels/kutai is underway. The joint initiative between Kelly Tarlton's Marine Wildlife Trust, the University of… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.The sister of a mentally unwell man who went missing in the bush on a work trial is blaming "a litany failures" from the various agencies who should have kept him safe, and is still looking for… Read more Audio