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10:07 AM.What goes through your head when you come to buy an item of clothing? Is it the right price? Right fit? Right colour? What about: is the dye that coloured it toxic? Kathryn talks to Orsola de Castro… Read more Audio

9:49 AM.The crisis in Myanmar is still unfolding and increasingly starting to involve western companies and governments. A slow covid vaccination rate in India is causing concern despite official numbers… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.If you've got an Android cellphone, it will now be part of a network of detectors able to give you advance warning of earthquakes. Google, in partnership with the United States Geological Survey, is… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.There are concerns at how long a video threatening to slaughter Māori was accessible before it was taken down, and whether the YouTube channel it was posted to was on the radar of authorities. Police… Read more Audio

11:47 AM.Film and TV reviewer James Croot joins Kathryn to talk about Amazon Prime's new anthology series Solos, which features a number of well-known actors including Helen Mirran and Anne Hathaway. He'll… Read more Audio

11:26 AM.Katie Fitzpatrick is an associate professor of education at the University of Auckland and the lead writer of relationship and sexuality education curriculum policy. She says more emphasis and time… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Technology correspondent Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to look at the newly-announced Digital Boost Alliance and what it hopes to achieve, new research into the impact AI could have on our work-lives… Read more Audio

10:36 AM.Ralph McAllister reviews Helen Kelly by Rebecca Macfie, published by Awa Press. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Good ideas - even if they're controversial - deserve to be published, says Australian philosopher and bioethics professor Peter Singer. To this end, he's co-founded an online academic journal where… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.UK correspondent Matthew Parris joins Kathryn to look at Dominic Cummings' comments to Parliament that Prime Minister Boris Johnson ignored scientific advice, wrongly delayed lockdowns and that - as a… Read more Audio

9:39 AM.A new study of tens of millions of groundwater wells around the world, including New Zealand's, reveals one in five could run dry if underground water levels fall by just a few metres. Globally… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.New Zealanders are working longer and producing less than their OECD counterparts, according to a new report from the Productivity Commission. The report finds kiwis work 34.2 hours a week on average… Read more Audio

11:34 AM.Long human-powered journeys and human ambition verses the forces of nature is explored in new documentary The Sea Decides. Grant Rawlinson rowed and cycled 12,000 kms from Singapore to New Zealand. In… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:35 AM.David Hill reviews The Frontiers of Knowledge by A.C. Grayling, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

10:06 AM.Pioneering caver Van Watson has an amazing story of adventure in search of the deepest cave in the world in Papua New Guinea. A young caver from Waitomo in the early 1970s, he led a group of 23 cavers… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:52 AM.Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the growing cluster of cases in Melbourne and concern football fans who attended an AFL match on Saturday may have been exposed. Read more Audio

9:36 AM.A leading architecture firm says the key to reducing carbon emissions in the construction industry will be to repurpose existing buildings, rather than building new structures. Jasmax is behind some… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.As some truck drivers report driving over their hours to the point of exhaustion and danger, calls for mandatory e-logs and an accord across the transportation industry to take pressure off them… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Andrew talks to Kathryn about complicity at the BBC over the underhand measures reporter Martin Bashir resorted to in securing the bombshell Panorama interview with Princess Diana - just who knew… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Some ideas on how to attract more insects and wildlife into your garden - no matter what the size of your plot. Annie Burdick is the US author of Bring the Wild into your Garden, which is all about… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Rebecca poses the question, does Rocket Lab have a toxic culture?. This follows a damning Employment Relations Authority judgement about the dismissal of an employee. Also a wave of CEO exits, what is… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Harry Ricketts reviews Things OK with You? by Vincent O'Sullivan, published by VUP. Read more Audio

10:07 AM.The nation's first Te Awhi Rito - Reading Ambassador - is on a mission to get more noses into books. Lyttleton-based Ben Brown knew the power of the word from a young age. Read more Audio