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9:49 AM.A former rebel leader, Ishmael Toroama is elected President of Bougainville, Covid issues continue in the Pacific, with French Polynesia and Guam battling cases and PNG in dire need of testing kits… Read more Audio

9:43 AM.What is the most popular piece of classical music? Voting is about to open in RNZ Concert's annual poll, Settling the Score. RNZ Concert's Nick Tipping talks to Kathryn Ryan. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.China is continuing to make significant strides in creating the world's first digital currency controlled by a central bank. Trials of a digital yuan are now underway in four Chinese cities, with a… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Holiday home and AirBnb owners in Christchurch say moves by the Council to regulate their sector are anti-tourism and unfair. Christchurch City Council is moving forward with plans requiring… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.Film and TV reviewer Sarah McMullan joins Kathryn to discuss the controversy over Netflix film Cuties, Netflix series Ratched, about a nurse running a psychiatric hospital and Neon series Shrill… Read more Audio

11:26 AM.Senior Researcher at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Mohamed Alansari with what the learnings about learning at home during lockdown have been to date. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Find your mobile bill ridiculously complicated? Technology commentator Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about how that should end, now the Commerce Commission is pressuring mobile phone companies… Read more Audio

10:37 AM.Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews Summerwater by Sarah Moss, published by Macmillan. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Ngāti Kuri's Sheridan Waitai and Auckland Museum's head of natural science Dr Tom Trnski are co-leading a 5 year collaborative research programme focused on Rangitāhua / Kermadec Islands. Rangitāhua… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.UK correspondent Hugo Gye joins Kathryn to talk the new rules introduced to pubs, restaurants and sporting events as the daily case number rises above 6000. There's warnings new customs checks will… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.A new study finds the vast majority of consumers want to get broken electrical appliances fixed, but are frustrated by how difficult and pricey it is to do. According to research conducted by Consumer… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Orthopaedic surgeons are concerned about the backlog of people waiting in pain for surgery after Covid forced cancellations earlier in the year. The Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons say 10-thousand… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Kirsten joins Kathryn to share some music from Sufjan Stevens and Arlo Parks. She'll also pay tribute to prolific and diverse musician Reuben Winter, who died this week at the age of 26. Read more Audio

10:07 AM.In a world where robots are replacing people and you can rent a friend, economist and author Noreena Hertz talks to Kathryn Ryan about loneliness. She has been named as "one of the world's leading… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.Australia correspondent Bernard Keane joins Kathryn to talk about continuing angst over state border closures, even as Victoria heads toward single-digit case numbers. It's only two weeks to the… Read more Audio

9:34 AM.With New Zealand officially in recession will school-leavers lose-out while universities benefit? Longitudinal research from the UK suggests recession-era school-leavers face life-long difficulties… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.A new charitable trust is hoping a collaboration with Corrections will result in a win-win: jobs for soon-to-be-released inmates and improved quality in the regions waterways. The Ko Waitangi Te Awa… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Online figures for readership of the NZ Herald and Stuff, and it's the first election debate tonight. Audio

11:30 AM.Pania Tepaiho Marsh started out with a simple mission: teach women how to hunt, so they could fill their fridges for their families. Read more Video, Audio

11:08 AM.Business commentator Rod Oram joins Kathryn to talk about Fonterra's good year-end results and Tourism Holding's surprisingly good year-end results. Audio

10:40 AM.Louise O'Brien reviews Just Like You by Nick Hornby, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

10:08 AM.Sydney based writer and film-maker Miro Bilborough has written a memoir about her time as a teenager living in a tiny hippie community in the outer reaches of the Marlborough Sounds in the 1970s. Read more Audio