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9:33 AM.Disability advocates say planned massive funding cuts to disability services may have been averted but disabled people and their families are still being questioned over every hour of support they… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.AgResearch social scientist, Dr Margaret Brown and Dr Bill Kaye-Blake, director at PricewaterhouseCoopers discuss the findings from a decade of research into the resilience of rural communities and… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:48 AM.Te Radar and Elisabeth Easther on crazy musings on starfish and warnings from Pope Francis against falling into the temptation of gossip in hair salons and beauty parlours. Read more Audio

11:33 AM.Sports commentator Brendan Telfer speaks to Kathryn about the plight of the current women's World and Olympic 800 meters athletic champion, Caster Semanya, essentially banned by the International… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Music reviewer Jeremy Taylor from Slow Boat Records with an eclectic music mix, playing a couple of songs from local singer-songwriter, Aldous Harding. Also, a celebration of an unglamorous era in… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Melanie O'Loughlin of Unity Books reviews The Heavens by Sandra Newman, which is published by Granta. Kate and Ben fall in love at a New York party, where everyone is interning at the UN, the year is… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Washington D.C. lawyer Philip Greene is no stranger to mixing it up. As well as being a successful lawyer for the US Marine Corps with an office in the Pentagon, he's a cocktail historian. Read more Audio

9:47 AM.Asia correspondent, Edward White talks to Kathryn about the US China trade war, which appears to be drawing to a resolution. China has made progress allaying fears about its massive Belt & Road… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Conservationists and locals living near Manukau Harbour's Port of Onehunga want a new independent entity, like the Hauraki Gulf coalition, set up to protect its failing health. New Zealand's second… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:08 AM.As more New Zealanders are cycling, a new study has found a 17 per cent a year increase in injury rates. This has sparked concern that cycling infrastructure isn't effective enough to keep up with… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Film and TV reviewer Sarah McMullan looks at the end of an era for two big hitting series - the first, the Avengers film series and the second, Game of Thrones. She'll also look at two new TV series… Read more Audio

11:27 AM.Susan Sawyer is a Professor of Adolescent Health at the University of Melbourne and a practising paediatrician. She talks to Kathryn about whether the age range for adolescence is too narrowly… Read more Audio

11:14 AM.Technology commentator Bill Bennett looks at the changes being promised by Mark Zuckerberg over the company's approach to privacy - and why making a joke about it fell flat. Spark Sport has another… Read more Audio

10:36 AM.Jonathan West reviews Slippery Jim or Patriotic Statesman? James Macandrew of Otago by R.J. Bunce, published by Otago University Press. Read more Audio

10:07 AM.The comedian and host of Viceland's 'Hate Thy Neighbor' documentary series, Jamali Maddix, is about to make his debut here as part of the NZ International Comedy Festival. Kathryn Ryan talks to him… Read more Video, Audio

9:50 AM.UK correspondent Matthew Parris reports on the sacking of Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson over the leak of confidential details about a deal with Huawei to build a 5G network in the UK. He denies… Read more Audio

9:32 AM.Food producers are being forced out of business as prime growing land is sold off for subdivisions and lifestyle blocks. Horticulture New Zealand is welcoming the Environment Aotearoa 2019 report… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.The Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill is the Government's response to the synthetic drug crisis, but submitters to the Health Select Committee have expressed concern about allowing widening the police… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Australian comedian Rhys Nicholson has slowly been building an impressive comedic resume that has taken him to the industry's biggest cities. The 28-year-old is best known for his sharp and witty… Read more Audio

10:13 AM.Canadian novelist Patrick deWitt talks to Kathryn Ryan about his latest satire, 'French Exit' which is at once absurd, weird, and very funny. The whimsical, wry observation of manners, centres on… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.Australia correspondent Karen Middleton reports on how the country's election campaign has just passed the midway point - what did the first election debate reveal? And 16 years after she was first… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.The biggest shake up to Japan's monarchy in 200 years is underway. Yesterday the country's 85-year-old Emperor Akihito formally ended his three-decade reign by abdicating and his 59-year old son… Read more Audio