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10:05 AM.Louise O'Brien reviews Abominations by Lionel Shriver, published by HarperCollins Publishers. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Hong Kong calls time on zero-Covid, ending quarantine measures but hopes are still dim that China will follow suit. In Cambodia, more than four decades after the Khmer Rouge was ousted, the… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Dave Ferguson is the kiwi entrepreneur behind Nuro - the California based driverless delivery start-up. Nuro has developed small, electric, driverless vehicles which can deliver food, groceries and… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The headache of how to retrofit social housing to make it warmer and more energy efficient is a global one. But a company in the UK may have a remedy - it's pushing past an initial, successful pilot… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Film and TV correspondent Tamar Munch joins Kathryn to talk about the latest season of Alice Snedden's Bad News (streaming on The Spinoff), Australian psych hospital drama Wakefield streaming on Neon… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.New research reveals ways teachers are challenging students to be the best they can be. For what the Teaching, School and Principal Leadership Practices Survey reveals about strengths and needs in our… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.It's been a big week in technology, with commentator Bill Bennett joining Kathryn to talk about the data breach at Australian telco Optus, Covenant Eyes - a new app that can look at everything on your… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Paul Diamond reviews He Reo Tuku Iho: Tangata Whenua and Te Reo Maori by Awanui Te Huia, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Lalah Hathaway has been dubbed "first daughter of soul", a fitting tribute to her late father - the celebrated soul singer and musician Donny Hathaway. The singer had been battling mental ill health… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.UK correspondent Hugo Gye joins Kathryn to look at the market meltdown that followed new Prime Minister Liz Truss and her finance minister's comments about cutting taxes to stimulate the economy. Tory… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.The Restaurant Industry Association says a trend for establishments to charge cancellation fees for no shows is likely to become normal practice across the sector. After covid lockdown restrictions… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.It's less than two weeks since Air New Zealand started flying direct between Auckland and New York, but it's had to offload bags, passengers and make plans for a possible pitstop in Fiji.  Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Performing arts reviewer Michael Hooper joins Kathryn to talk about New Zealand Opera's current tour of MacBeth. It's a new production by Netia Jones, conducted by Brad Cohen and features Phillip… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Temperatures dropping to minus 57 degrees, 16 weeks of darkness, isolation stretching to eight months and logistical challenges. That's what five scientists faced during the first winter at New… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:06 AM.Music commentator Ian Chapman joins Kathryn to look at the small handful of not widely known influencers and collaborators on David Bowie's music, ranging from the astounding to bafflingly awful. Ian… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Shaun Barnett reviews Sylvia and the Birds by Johanna Emeney & Sarah Laing, published by Massey University Press. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.The Building Brothers Construction company is a Tongan family affair. The three Tuipulotu brothers, Mapa, George and Fou started off labouring, but since qualifying as builders they've formed their… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst joins Kathryn to talk about why no Covid-19 vaccines have been ordered for 2024, the huge data breach affecting Optus customers and the shape of the first… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.An ambitious international project to map the seabed is calling on boaties with echo technology and GPS to help out. A target was set to map the entire seabed by 2030 at a UN ocean conference in 2017… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Protests in Iran have intensified this week, sparked by the death of a Kurdish woman in police custody - and buoyed by wider anger at the treatment of women in the republic. 22-year-old Mahsa Amini… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Andrew looks at the range of responses surfacing about the new public media organisation arising out of RNZ and TVNZ. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Pattrick talks about NZ's $30 billion carbon emissions "hole". Also, the strange case of Tim Boyd, an Australian who wangled the top job managing Christchurch city's infrastructure despite having some… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Neale, Tim and Kathryn talk about Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the UN and her return to a tough domestic agenda, including some headwinds over the shape of the income insurance scheme. Also they… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Emma Hislop reviews Bliss Montage by Ling Ma, published by Text Publishing Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Nash Edgerton has worked as a stuntman on films including The Matrix trilogy, The Thin Red Line and as doubling for Ewan McGregor in two of the Star Wars prequels. He directed all episodes of black… Read more Audio