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11:05 AM.Fresh back from a beach in Abel Tasman, Grant Smithies selects songs today that work well with sandy togs and a tan. We'll hear some righteous New York boogaloo from San Sebastian 152, a Jamaican… Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews her top picks of 2019: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold and Gun Love by Jennifer Clement (both published by Penguin). Audio

10:10 AM.One wedding, two families and two cultures. Tainui Tukiwaho talks about his on stage rom com, Black Ties, and his brilliant take on the Trans-Tasman clash of cultures. Black Ties, which is a… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.Several Pacific countries have taken heavy-handed measures in an effort to stop a new and largely unknown coronavirus from taking hold in a region already strained by several severe epidemics. Koro… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Some our native bird populations are struggling to cope with rising temperatures but human intervention is helping to ensure their survival. The latest research on the hihi, or stitchbird, reveals the… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Health and social scientists have documented the clearest picture so far of our  'hospital revolving-door problem', the concentration of crime, and long-term welfare dependence in a relatively small… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.The Air New Zealand charter plane to evacuate New Zealanders out of Wuhan is just days away from leaving. Up to 40 Air New Zealand staff have volunteered to be part of the ten member cabin crew aboard… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.American author and father Kevin Wilson revisits his obsession with spontaneous human combustion in his new novel Nothing to See Here. Here former college room-mate Madison asks Lillian to be a… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Tech commentator Paul Matthews looks at the "Off-Facebook Activity" finally released by Facebook that allows you to see the 180 days' worth of data Facebook collects about from sites that you've… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Louise Ward of Wardini Books with her top picks from 2019: Running With Sherman by Christopher McDougall (Allen & Unwin), The History Speech by Mark Sweet (Huia), and The Good Thieves by Katherine… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Described as one of America's finest writers, award-winning and best-selling author Elizabeth Strout speaks with Kathryn Ryan about one of the finest female characters to come out of American fiction… Read more Audio

9:31 AM.A high tech predator control entity says it has eradicated all pests from a remote valley in South Westland and what's more - is keeping them out. Zero Invasive Predators - or ZIP - did the trial in a… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

11:20 AM.The Prime Minister has revealed a half-billion-dollar spend-up on roads, to come out of the $12 billion Infrastructure Fund. Kathryn talks with RNZ's Political Editor Jane Patterson. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.RNZ music journalist Yadana Saw discusses new singles from Thundercat and Yumi Zouma who have new albums on the way. And we look at some of the big heritage acts that are landing on our shores next… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Louise O'Brien with her favourite books from 2019: The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox (Victoria University Press), To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James Meek (Allen and Unwin) and Big Sky by Kate… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.The research for author Jeanine Cummins' latest book took to her to borderland towns in Mexico, where thousands of people seeking a new life in America gather to try to enter the US. Read more Video, Audio

9:50 AM.Australia correspondent Chris Niesche reports on the country's response to coronavirus, including official information this morning that citizens should "reconsider" the need to travel to China. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.In a relief to those of us who don't want to work past the age of 65, a review that looked into into upping the age for super has found it'd do more harm than good, and is affordable for decades to… Read more Audio