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11:05 AM.Technology correspondent Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at how the FluBot malware is spreading by text, rather than email. A software error that causes Tesla's autopilot to slam on the brakes… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Michelle Rahurahu reviews Out Here: An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQU+ Writers from Aotearoa edited by Emma Barnes and Chris Tse, published by Auckland University Press. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.British Historian John Guy talks to Kathryn about the lost letters of Elizabeth I which not only shed fresh light on her fraught relationship with Mary Queen of Scots, but have rewritten history. When… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.UK correspondent Harriet Line joins Kathryn to talk about how Liverpool terror suspect Al Swealmeen had been buying bomb parts for months, and how his conversion to Christianity is now being… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.As more research continues to emerge into the effects of heading a football and cognitive decline, there's no move in New Zealand yet to introduce heading regulations for younger players. Children… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The Resource Management Act (Enabling Housing Supply) Amendment Bill was a surprise announcement last month - a rare cross-party agreement designed to speed up the building of new houses. Submissions… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn on the programme to answer listeners' Covid questions. And it's the start of World Antibiotic Awareness week tomorrow - what do we need to know… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Taranaki community garden volunteers are growing fresh kai for a Waitara food bank. The gardens are in the WISE charitable trust's grounds, and the veges are donated to the foodbank and out into the… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Music commentator Kirsten Zemke joins Kathryn to play a few examples of Fado, a popular Portuguese music genre. Fado songs embody the Portuguese term saudade: melancholic longing, desire and… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Bel Monypenny from Scorpio Books in Christchurch reviews Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout, published by Penguin RandomHouse. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Dr Lana Lopesi is an author, art critic and Editor in Chief of the Pacific Arts Legacy Project. She is also Interim Director of The Pantograph Punch, and a Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Chris Niesche joins Kathryn to talk about last minute amendments to a controversial pandemic bill in Victoria which had fueled anti-government protests. Three-year-old William… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.From this morning, anyone who is fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to request a vaccination pass, dubbed "My Vaccine Pass". Once New Zealand enters the new traffic light system, the pass… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.COP26 has wrapped up in Glasgow, reaching an agreement filled with compromise. An agreement to holding global warming to 1.5 degrees was retained, but the means of getting there far from clear. All… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Discovery is creating new tv channels and will have 5, the most of any free-to-air broadcaster. Andrew says more local content will be produced, though the skew is clearly to reality TV. And… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Tamaki Makaurau has a complicated and busy history. But it's a past that has been constantly built over, dug up or destroyed. Historian, author and curator at Auckland Museum Lucy Mackintosh has spent… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.There's been a large number of people leaving KiwiRail, Pattrick talks to Kathryn about what's driving it. Also, with the impending summer of Covid, a look at where rapid antigen testing is at… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Leah McFall reviews Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020 by David Sedaris, published by Hachette Aotearoa NZ Leah says: A second astringent instalment of diaries from America's foremost humorist… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Wellington writer John McCrystal has been interested in shipwrecks since he was a child, when at the age of six he first heard the tale of the General Grant, which struck the Auckland Islands in 1866… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:50 AM.Ron talks to Kathryn about surging inflation and the effect on President Joe Biden and the Democrats, how the conversation around Donald Trump is changing, and the January 6 investigating committee… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.What's in a name? Two Auckland academics have just released a report arguing for a change to naming conventions for native plants.  Read more Audio

9:07 AM.From this week, Australians will be able to use Afterpay to pay for food and beverages at 160 pubs and restaurants around the country. The hospitality group Australian Venue Co has partnered with… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Bill McKay talks to Kathryn about the New Medium Density Residential Standards: Three, three-storey townhouses on many urban and suburban sites Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Helen Melser's The Olive Tree in My Kitchen explores the versatility of the fruit and is a homage to the olive tree. Over the years she's produced many olive products from her grove in the Wairarapa… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Labour is beginning to hurt in the polls as rating of Covid management slump and another day of more than 200 infections yesterday. Also at COP26 New Zealand pledges an completely unquantifiable sum… Read more Audio