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10:09 AM.Overwork, information overload, environmental pollution. They could be described as the worries of our time, but in fact, they were the exact same concerns the Victorians had. As the industrial… Read more Audio

9:53 AM.The wrath of the coronavirus across Asia causing widespread disruption, angst and strained health systems. China and South Korea are the hardest his countries in the region amid concerns around the… Read more Audio

9:38 AM.What do doctors, lawyers and their clients need to know about judging whether people have the mental capacity to make decisions? Barrister Alison Douglass has produced a guide to assist legal and… Read more Audio

9:28 AM.$11 million was donated to the Christchurch Foundation fund for vicitms of the March 15 mosque attacks. The majority has been shared between families of the bereaved and injured. Now the remaining $2… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has died suddenly, aged 75. She was was an MP from 1996 to 2010 and the co-leader of the Green Party from 1995 to 2009 alongside the late Rod Donald… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.Film and TV correspondent Sarah McMullan reviews the Stephen King novel-turned-TV series The Outsider and British comedy Military Wives and takes a look at New Zealand film Births, Deaths and… Read more Audio

11:29 AM.Senior Researcher at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Mohamed Alansari speaks with Kathryn Ryan about what parents and educators can do to prevent children panicking about Covid19. Read more Audio

11:11 AM.Technology commentator Bill Bennett looks at how the millennium bug is back - because it never exactly went away. In trying to solve the problem, programmers pushed it back 20 years. And time's up… Read more Audio

10:42 AM.Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, published by Bloomsbury. Audio

10:06 AM.Multi-instrumentalists, partners, collaborators and music historians  Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi join Kathryn Ryan to discuss the (sometimes fraught) musical connections between race… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.Matthew talks to Kathryn about the British Prime Minister's statement on the coronavirus, bullying allegations against Priti Patel, the start of Brexit negotiations in Brussels, and an engagement and… Read more Audio

9:38 AM.A New Zealand-made bio-medical product that's been used nearly 5 million times in the United States will soon be available for use here at home. Aroa Biosurgery makes tissue-repair products from… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The manager of one of New Zealand's largest e-waste firms, Computer Recycling describes the amount of electric goods being thrown away as "an epidemic". Patrick Moynahan has started a petition calling… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:47 AM.Legal commentator Ursula Cheer looks at the recent defamation case Sir Bob Jones took against filmmaker Renae Maihi, which he eventually dropped. The government is considering a review of defamation… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Rodney Triplow has been on the front line fighting fires for forty-six years. He joined the Havelock North Volunteer Fire Brigade in 1973, working his way up the ranks to Chief Fire Officer. On… Read more Audio

11:11 AM.Music commentator Graeme Downes has been thinking about the number of live recordings he owns, and what makes a good live album. He shares some tunes from Tom Waits' Big Time and Glitter and Doom live… Read more Audio

10:41 AM.Carole Beu of the Women's Bookshop reviews Apeirogon: A Novel by Colum McCann, published by Bloomsbury. An extraordinary novel that features two real men, one Palestinian and one Israeli, who both… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Positivity, consistency and vulnerability are key to having more fulfilling friendships, according to founder and CEO of American friend matching agency Girlfriend Circles.com Shasta Nelson, whose… Read more Audio

9:53 AM.Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about how Australian ministers are still grumbling about Jacinda Ardern's blast at Scott Morrison over Kiwi deportees, Australia's Reserve… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.After an overwhelming response to Professor Maurice Curtis' last appearance on the programme, he joins Kathryn Ryan again to talk about all the difficult questions about leaving your body to science… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Pressure's mounting on the New Zealand government to give tax cuts and for the reserve bank to cut interest rates because of the economic risks posed by the new coronavirus. As the numbers and spread… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.New research has found climate change and the expected increase in extreme weather events will mean higher damages - and an additional liability for EQC. 8000 claims lodged to the EQC between 2000 and… Read more Audio

11:27 AM.Do you zone out in conversations? Wake at 3am worrying about things? Find yourself addicted to your phone? Kerene Strochnetter has written a book entitled Crazy Busy - in which she argues that if busy… Read more Audio

11:11 AM.Economic uncertainty related to the spread of Covid-19 and 12 years into Kiwisaver and we're getting less conservative. Stuff business editor, Rebecca Stevenson Audio