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10:35 AM.Laura Caygill reviews The Family by Naomi Krupitsky, published by Penguin Random House. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.From the velocipede to the penny farthing, the Raleigh 20, Loline, Chopper and the BMX - millions of bicycles have been manufactured in New Zealand over the past 150 years. Cycling historian, author… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:50 AM.Debora talks to Kathryn about the deteriorating security situation in Ethiopia. In South Africa, a new hub in Cape Town is starting a revolution, developing it's own vaccines for Africa fed up with… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.NIWA meteorologist Dr Richard Turner has charted the average wind speed of our golf courses. Going off data from studies of wind patterns for research done for building codes Dr Turner helped Golf NZ… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.An independent Police Conduct Authority has found major issues with the resourcing of small community police stations. A joint survey between Federated Farmers and police found more than half of… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.The late '60s was a golden period for Latin soul records in New York City, and Grant says some of the best feature on the recently repressed Soul of Spanish Harlem double LP. We'll hear two key tracks… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Ash Davida Jane from Unity Books Wellington reviews 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next by Jeanette Winterson, published by Jonathan Cape. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Paul Kilgour has probably visited more huts than anyone else in New Zealand. He's a wanderer, a long-distance tramper and one of New Zealand's most famous hutbaggers, although he shies away from the… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.The Director General Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Kosi Latu's response to COP26, more pledges and promises without real action. Also, a small New Zealand emergency… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.The Big Carrot in Ohakune, the Hundertwasser Toilets in Kawakawa, a Toothbrush Fence in Te Pahu and the Bluff Paua Shell House all make up New Zealand's many weird and wonderful landmarks that dot the… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Critics of a planned data centre for Clyde in Central Otago are raising concerns about just what it'll be used for, saying it'll be of no benefit to the region - or even the country. Contact Energy… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Film and TV reviewer Laumata Lauano joins Kathryn to talk new black and white film Passing (Netflix), which looks at the complicated friendship of two black women in segregated 1920s America, one of… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Kathryn talks with Clinical Psychologist Sarb Johal about the challenge of loneliness for parents, particularly during a pandemic. He says parenting can be tough at the best of times, but when you're… Read more Audio

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