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9:20 AM.Russian President Vladimir Putin says peace talks have reached a "dead-end situation" after Ukraine made allegations about war crimes. He dismissed images of dead bodies in the town of Bucha as… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.High demand and a shortage of vessels are putting pressure on Cook Strait ferry services this Easter weekend and into next month. The Interislander's Aratere ferry is unavailable until Anzac weekend… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Olaf Petersen is widely regarded as one of Aotearoa's finest nature photographers. Over his 50 year career, from the 1930s to 1980s, he documented the country's landscape and its people. His… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Rebecca looks at how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has provided a backdrop for the arms industry to advertise its wares. And also she talks to Kathryn a new report on Forbes which has a roundup of… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Ash Davida Jane reviews Meat Lovers by Rebecca Hawkes, published by Auckland University Press Audio

10:05 AM.When Yvette Williams stepped onto the victory rostrum at the 1952 Helsinki Games it was remarkable for two reasons. She'd just become the first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic Gold medal -… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.The Senate has confirmed judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court. Jackson, Biden's first pick for the nation's high court, will become the first black woman justice… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.A balance sheet shows treatment for HIV is our most successful public health programme ever. The bottom line of some new data is that the New Zealand Needle Exchange Programme has doubled its return… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Reports of war crimes being committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine have been met with global outrage and horror World leaders have condemned the atrocities, some going as far to call it genocide. US… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Bill discusses 'hybrid architecture': innovative ways of adapting buildings and sites. Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.With Easter nearly upon us, lots of chocolate-eating is on the horizon. But did you know the flavour and shape of the chocolates you prefer can reveal your personality type? "Chocologist" Murray… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Stephen Mills is an executive director at Talbot Mills research limited which is the polling firm used by Labour. He is a former political adviser to two Labour governments. Brigitte Morten is a… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Ralph McAllister reviews Harbouring by Jenny Pattrick, published by Penguin Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Academic, writer, journalist and editor Julianne Schultz's book The Idea of Australia takes looks at what her country represents. She asks some critical questions including : What defines the soul of… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.In what's turned out to be a tight, nail-biting French presidential election, the gap has closed between the far-right and incumbent President Macron in the race for the Elysee Palace. After the first… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.A petition is gathering pace to prevent a swathe of treasured East Coast agricultural farmland being converted to overseas-owned pine forestry. Almost 6,686 signatures have been gathered from a target… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Sam breaks down the Tiger Woods hype train, and he has reaction to Super Rugby Pacific's red card crackdown. He also looks at why British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's getting involved in the… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Pedal steel? Check! Stetsons? Check! Nudie suits? Check! Two dudes from garage-punk legends The Cavemen have gone country as Sin City, and their new record rules. We'll hear two tracks from that… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Martene McCaffrey of Unity Books Auckland reviews Harrow by Joy Williams, published by Allen and Unwin NZ Martene says: Harrow is "A darkly funny story of a teenage girl navigating the post… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Matt Davison has a day job at a desk, but in his spare time he goes on expeditions all over Tāmaki Makaurau to photograph secret places. When the pandemic put the kaibosh on his passion to travel the… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.Susana has an update on the pact between Solomon Islands and China, with some nations expressing concern. She looks ahead to next week's Our Ocean Conference hosted by the Republic of Palau and the… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.When New Plymouth woman Dianne Dobson was made redundant in her 50s, she started up her own business decluttering houses and selling people's unneeded belongings on their behalf. Now she can't keep up… Read more Video, Audio