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10:43 AM.Melanie O'Loughlin of Unity Books reviews Real Life by Brandon Taylor, published by Daunt Books.

This mid-western campus novel gives us a fresh view of student life as Wallace, a gay, black, PhD… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Award-winning Chinese-born British author, filmmaker and Booker Prize judge Xiaolu Guo tells Kathryn Ryan about her new book A Lover's Discourse. A 'documentary novel' about love, language, and the… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.The 4 Paws Marathon takes place in Christchurch on Sunday, where runners and their athletic dogs will race to the finishing line together. Kathryn speaks with organiser and owner of three dogs, sport… Read more Audio

9:28 AM.An aquaculture start-up says it is accelerating plans to commercially cultivate New Zealand seaweed for methane-busting livestock feed. CH4 Global was founded by a group of local tech and bioscience… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.In a big turnaround from last year's loss of $605 million Fonterra has announced a full year profit of $659 million. Fonterra CEO Miles Hurrell says 2019/20 was a good year for the Co-op, with profit… Read more Audio

11:28 AM.Speech and language therapist Christian Wright talks about two speech sound errors commonly heard in children's speech that can persist through adolescence and into adulthood - the R and Th sounds. Read more Audio

11:15 AM.Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about the memo released by former Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang that blows the whistle on the extent to which the tech giant ignored… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.The country is officially in recession for the first time in a decade. Official numbers show gross domestic product -- the broad measure of growth -- fell a seasonally adjusted 12.2 percent in the… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Luke Harding is an award winning Guardian journalist whose latest book shines a light again on the role of the Kremlin under Vladimir Putin - from the poisonings of Segei and Julia Skripal in… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.UK correspondent Harriet Line joins Kathryn to tall about the surge in Covid numbers - with almost 4000 recorded overnight. Boris Johnson has faced a grilling from MPs about the speed of the testing… Read more Audio

9:24 AM.The opening of the government's books yesterday ahead of the election painted a picture of long term debt, rising unemployment and a slow recovery. The Treasury figures predict unemployment to reach a… Read more Audio

9:11 AM.New data obtained under the Official Information Act shows senior Māori and Pasifika public and health sector workers are less likely to earn over $100-thousand dollars than their pākehā counterparts… Read more Audio

11:49 AM.Garth Gallaway joins Kathryn to look at recent case brought against a property developer by Worksafe that was successfully defended. How are investigation numbers by WorkSafe tracking? And what's… Read more Audio

11:27 AM.Kathryn takes a plunge into the history of swimming, and why humans swim, with swimmer and swim coach Howard Means, whose new book Splash celebrates ten thousand years of swimming. From our first ever… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Graeme joins Kathryn to continue with this country theme, this time looking at Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Glen Campbell. Graeme Downes is a musicologist and former senior lecturer in the… Read more Audio

10:41 AM.Ralph McAllister reviews Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez, published by Dialogue Books. Read more Audio

10:07 AM.To say 2020 has been a rough year is a bit of an understatement - but a short video by a New Zealand-born poet has brought a message of hope to millions who have seen it. Tomos Roberts is also known… Read more Audio

9:48 AM.Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about how some restrictions are being lifted across Victoria, but not in metro centres and Melbourne. The government is under fire for its… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Locals are asking for the badly flood-damaged road into the popular Hollyford track to be opened by summer. The road has been closed since February, blocking off easy access to the track and its huts… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Zhenhua Data has collected information on 2.4 million people around the world - including 730 New Zealanders. Canberra-based cybersecurity firm Internet 2.0 received the leaked files, and Kathryn… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Media commentator Andrew Holden joins Kathryn to talk about the Herald's good readership results, the small private equity fund that's bought into NZME, Sky's slight drop in profit and the financial… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.As the fight against kauri dieback continues, a traditional Maori healer is using indigenous medicine to help save the ancient trees. Read more Audio