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11:50 AM.Bill McKay thinks Grand Designs gives an unrealistic idea of design and construction - but the Hamilton city centre's new direction is transformative. Audio

11:30 AM.Until last October, Andi Ross and her family lived in Auckland and holidayed on Great Barrier Island, until the lure of island living proved too great. Since moving to Great Barrier, Andi has set up… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:07 AM.Neale, Trish and Kathryn talk about National's alternative budget, and tax cuts, as well as the $4 billion dollar mistake in its economic plan. Also a look at Covid's impact on widening inequality. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Mary Fawcett, Schrödinger's Books reviews The Rise of the Remarkables: Brasswitch and Bot by Gareth Ward. Published by Walker Books. Audio

10:08 AM.A new book shines a light on a previously untold history, that of homosexual New Zealand soldiers serving during World War II. Brent Coutts' book, called Crossing the Lines, focuses predominantly on… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:50 AM.The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain have signed agreements fully normalising their relations with Israel at the White House, what's happening in Lebanon a month on from the catastrophic Beirut… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.A special court aiming to break a cycle for young adult offenders, who could be sentenced to a life-time of crime because of their neuro-disabilities will offer a separate sitting for offenders aged… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.A group of central Auckland businesses in a dispute with their landlord over rent payments, say they risk losing everything if an arrangement can't be found. The group is mainly made up of eateries at… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Sam talks to Kathryn about the Government allowing the Wallabies to have a 3 day quarantine period and asks is this now the precedent? ASB Classic wants the same treatment to give the tournament a… Read more Audio

11:18 AM.Funk veteran Lee Field's 1999 album Let's Get A Groove On gets a welcome reissue for Record Store Day next week. We'll hear two tracks from that today, plus a NZ classic from The Subliminals and some… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.National's promising a short-term package of tax cuts - worth more than four and half billion dollars - to kick start the economy. The changes would be made by significant increases to income tax… Read more Audio

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