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10:05 AM.Gail Pittaway reviews Hunting Game by Helene Tursten, published by Text. A classic Scandinavian police procedural novel, featuring Swedish detective Embla Nystrom - along with moose-hunting, mystery… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.UK correspondent Harriet Line joins Lynn Freeman to talk about the increasing pressure on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to sack his adviser Dominic Cummings over his lockdown trip out of London while… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.They're the clearest springs in the country, but could protections for them be undermined by a proposed freshwater plan change? Lynn Freeman examines what the Tasman District has in mind, and what it… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Calls are being made for public sector workers to return to the workplace, in a bid to boost Wellington's economy. Commuter numbers and spending in the capital is down by a third. Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Legal correspondent Simon Jefferson joins Kathryn to talk about why he believes adoption laws are long overdue for an overhaul. He says the outdated model hasn't kept pace with the evolution of… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Christchurch based Flora Knight is a shoe maker whose boots are getting a run on Eleanor Catton's sunday night TV ONE adaptation of her Booker Prize-winning The Luminaries. The costume team gave Flora… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Music correspondent Graeme Downes joins Kathryn to look at Bob Dylan's Hard Rain, Rolling Thunder Tour, keeping his live album theme going in a time of cancelled live gigs. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha, published by Penguin Random House. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Yasmine Mohammed is a Canadian human rights advocate, academic, author and outspoken critic of radical Islam with an extraordinary personal story she shares in order to help others. Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about Prime Minister Scott Morrison's desire to bring employers and workers together to rebuild the country's economy, as the A$250… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.NIWA's squat lobster specialist Dr John Zeldis explains to Kathryn Ryan what causes the red swarms seen recently in Broad Bay and Edwards Bay near Portobello on the Otago Peninsula. Read more Audio

9:25 AM.An open letter to Associate Education Minister Tracey Martin, with fourteen and a half thousand signatures, warns about the future of one of the oldest players in New Zealand's early childcare sector.

9:05 AM.Stark new research finds one in three New Zealand households are in financial difficulty due to Covid 19, and 40 per cent say they are at risk of tipping into hardship. Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Stuff chief executive Sinead Boucher has purchased Stuff from its Australian owners Nine Entertainment for $1.00, what happens now. And there have been large scale job losses at Mediaworks. Audio

11:30 AM.Wainuiomata's Dahlia Malaeulu is a teacher, an advocate for Samoa and Pasifika education and also an author. She has written series of children's books Mila's My Gagana and now a new e-book Teine… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Stuff Business Editor, Rebecca Stevenson talks to Kathryn about the groundswell of support for local businesses, with a Buy NZ made products Facebook page reaching 470,000 members. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Harry Ricketts reviews The Reed Warbler by Ian Wedde, published by Victoria University Press. Audio

10:05 AM.Best selling American author Curtis Sittenfeld's latest novel has a simple but fascinating premise: What if Hillary Clinton hadn't married Bill? Read more Audio

9:50 AM.As pandemic restrictions have loosened in the US, people have flocked to the malls and beaches, while the President played golf during the Memorial Day weekend, as fears grow about a second wave of… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.A Nobel Prize-winning economist says the disempowering reign of neoliberalism has exposed the US to the worst ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Thousands of New Zealand visa holders are being denied entry back in New Zealand. Of the 10,733 applications for an exception to the border closure have been made to Immigration New Zealand, only 1685… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Quinoa is a super nutritious edible seed which can be enjoyed in many recipes, from soups and salads to sushi. It's rich in protein, dietary fibre, amino acids and B vitamins. Kate Dunlop runs the NZ… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Neale Jones was Chief of Staff to Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern, and prior to that was Chief of Staff to Andrew Little. He is the director of Capital Government Relations. Trish Sherson is from… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Elisabeth Easther reviews The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver, published by HarperCollins. Audio