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11:10 AM.Tech correspondent Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about new Australian research into how much data is being collected about users of Chinese-owned TikTok and why it's concerning, what's behind a… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Phil Vine reviews No Other Place to Stand: An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand, Edited by Jordan Hamel, Rebecca Hawkes, Erik Kennedy and Essa Ranapiri, published by… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.High Performance Sport has released an action plan following a critical independent inquiry finding the organisation's high performance model is broken and needs to be "reimagined". Commissioned after… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.A multi-millionaire octogenarian widow and her two children who have kept tight control of the Tour de France despite numerous hostile takeover bids, are the focus of a new book. The world's most… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.UK correspondent Harriet Line touches on the Tory leadership race and the heatwave raging across the country which led the Fire Service in London to have its busiest day since World War II. Harriet… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Credit reporting agencies gather and sell information about individual's credit histories to get a sense of how risky you are in relation to money. This information can be used by lenders, landlords… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are the last candidates left standing following the final vote by Conservative MPs on who will replace Boris Johnson as their leader. Sunak, the former Chancellor, topped the… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Concerns the high cost of day-to-day living is seeing people taking an eye off their financial future, threatening the ability to afford to retire. This week we saw a thirty-two year inflation high… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.The popular ilabb brand started out fifteen years ago, in a garage in Picton. It's expanding, again, into Europe and further into Canada. It has teamed up with the world's largest mountain bike… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.The term Bubblegum pop is sometimes used to describe any pop music that may seem metaphorically "sickly sweet", but Bubblegum is actually an official genre itself. Bubblegum was a type of rock 'n'… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Louise O'Brien reviews Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, published by Penguin Random House NZ. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Best-selling British author Fiona Barton's new who-dunnit is Local Gone Missing. A cast of characters keep secrets and the reader guessing when a charismatic local man vanishes without trace from a… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Chris Niesche joins Kathryn to talk about the death of a Sydney teen in a Syrian jail and whether it might spark renewed interest in the plight of Australian families stuck in… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Working from home has become the new normal for many since the Covid pandemic, and many tout it as being a game changer for employees mental and physical wellbeing. No more long commutes, the ability… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Today Nine to Noon looks at the way free dental care is provided to under-18s in New Zealand, amid concerns it's failing to keep up with greater needs and spiralling treatment costs. Children under… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Media commentator Andrew Holden joins Kathryn to look at the harassment experienced by Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa in the Philippines, while her fellow winner Dmitry Muratov also had his… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Tamati Rakena was on track for a career in the Moerewa meatworks, but ended up with a Masters degree and founding a bush clothing business. He left school with no particular direction and AFFCO was… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Business correspondent Pattrick Smellie joins Kathryn to talk about the mega-polytech Te Pukenga , the problems it's been having and what it means for skills training during a skills crisis. He'll… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Quentin Johnson reviews After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz, published by Text Publishing. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.World renowned Greek-Australian neuroscientist George Paxinos is described by his colleagues as one of the Australia's greatest thinkers. He's also published 57 books in the field of neuroscience… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.US correspondent Kelsey Snell details another mass shooting - this time in Indiana - which was thwarted by a bystander who shot the 20-year-old gunman dead. Meanwhile it's been revealed 400 police… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.It's been a year since New Zealand schools were able to sign up to an initiative that offered free period products to students who needed them. As of June 2022, 2,062 schools and kura are… Read more Audio

9:15 AM.Annual inflation has increased 7.3 percent since the June 2021 quarter, the largest year-on-year increase for 32 years, driven by more expensive fuel, building materials, food and housing costs… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Doctors say that Pharmac is refusing to accept its created a problem by mishandling supplies of 50 microgram Estradot patches, a Hormone Replacement Therapy for menopause, by not notifying doctors… Read more Audio