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9:40 AM.Footnote dancers and choreographers Josie Archer and Kosta Bogoievski are inviting the audience behind the scenes of the weird and wonderful world of creative contemporary live dance. Together they've… Read more Video, Audio

9:25 AM.A new way of detecting lazy eye in pre-schoolers, that doesn't require four year olds to sit still and answer questions, is being trialled by a group of Māori led childcare centres in South Auckland… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.The aged care sector is short one fifth of its nursing workforce and some not-for-profit care providers say they're at breaking point, being forced to close wards and turn away admissions. There are… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Film and TV reviewer Laumata Lauano joins Kathryn to talk about the new TVNZ series The Panthers, about the Dawn Raids. She'll also look at season two of Head High (Three, OnDemand), an award-winning… Read more Audio

11:26 AM.Five years ago Jacinta Tynan's relationship ended and she suddenly found her self raising her two young sons on her own. The Australian journalist, broadcaster and columnist says despite the… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Technology commentator Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about the Commerce Commission's warning to telcos over the way they're marketing alternative broadband technologies as the copper telephone… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Catriona Ferguson reviews Mrs March by Virginia Feito, published by HarperCollins. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Erna Walraven is an Australia-based wildlife specialist and consultant who spent 12 years as a keeper at Sydney's Taronga Zoo before moving on to be a senior curator for the next two decades where she… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.UK correspondent Harriet Line joins Kathryn to talk about how 16 and 17-year-olds will be offered the Covid vaccine after experts recommended expanding eligibility. The UK's travel traffic light… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.An amendment to the Harmful Digital Communications Act is expected to create a new offence, making it a crime to share intimate images or recordings without the person's explicit consent. Labour MP… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Divorce and family law expert Jeremy Sutton joins Kathryn to look at the pressures that can be generated over the family home when couples separate and how the extension of the bright line test has… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Marine biologist Ceridwen Fraser describes beaches as our windows to the ocean. Sea foam, ambergris, giant squids, stranded whales, seaweed, shells, plastic, dead birds, shoes and pieces of planes or… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Music reviewer Jess Fu joins Kathryn to share a new single from Te Kaahu, a project from Otautahi-born musician Em Walker, dedicated to her kuia. She'll also play a song from Phoebe Rings, a… Read more Audio

10:55 AM.The unemployment rate has fallen to four per cent in the three months ended June, down from 4.7 pct in the previous quarter. Wages grew at an annual rate of 2.2 percent. This is the second quarter the… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Kiran Dass reviews The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan, published by White Rabbit. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Jessica Mudditt had the opportunity to live and work in Myanmar, during a brief window of history when it opened up to the world and experimented with democracy. Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to look at how Covid infection rates remain stubbornly high at about 200 daily in New South Wales, while the situation is deepening the social… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Allied health professionals who work alongside doctors, nurses and dentists say they are being under-utilised and could help deliver better health outcomes. Read more Audio

9:25 AM.The multi million dollar court case against James Hardie has ended mid-trial, leaving homeowners with nothing. More than 1000 people were collectively seeking over two hundred million dollars against… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Canoeist Lisa Carrington may paddle her way into the history books today at the Tokyo Olympics. Yesterday she won two gold medals in less than two hours, and today she's targetting gold in the K1 500… Read more Audio

11:34 AM.This year marks the 40th anniversary of the controversial Springbok rugby tour that divided the country, and a new book is helping young New Zealanders to understand the issues that made it so… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Rebecca Stevenson is BusinessDesk's head of news. Audio

10:40 AM.Stella Chrysostomou of Volume Books in Nelson reviews Great Works by Oscar Mardell, published by Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers. Stella says: Oscar Mardell is an Auckland poet whose… Read more Audio