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9:07 AM.Mark Taylor the New Zealander captured in an Islamic State battlefield, is stuck in Syria without a passport. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she's not willing to risk other people's lives in… Read more Audio

11:51 AM.Bill McKay takes a look at what is happening on the waterfronts and lakefronts of towns throughout the country, including the Whangarei town basin, and the coastal developments of Tauranga, Dunedin… Read more Audio

11:33 AM.An after school care programme is exciting children to make their own meals. sKids - Safe Kids in Daily Supervision - is running a programme giving children aged 5-13 a chance to make nutritious food… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Our political commentators and Kathryn take a close look at the Government's transformation agenda. Is it radical change or incremental governing?. Also, the race for the Auckland mayoralty is… Read more Audio

10:42 AM.Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb has been reading Bangkok Wakes to Rain, by Pitchaya Sudbanthad, which is published by Sceptr. Audio

10:08 AM.Professor Harrison Fraker is a world-renowned architect, at the forefront of a major project in his home state of California to retrofit a whole neighbourhood of existing homes into one energy… Read more Video, Audio

9:50 AM.Europe correspondent, Seamus Kearney says authorities in France are voicing shock over the latest in a string of attacks seen as antisemitic. In the latest incident, a memorial stone was vandalised at… Read more Audio

9:34 AM.Kathryn discusses the latest developments in world-wide weather forecasting, and New Zealand's role in it, with Jon Petch, a senior executive from the UK Met Office. New Zealand is one of five… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:08 AM.The independent hearing into a proposed extension to Auckland's Queens Wharf, to allow huge cruise ships to berth has heard a chorus of objections from multiple community groups. The development arm… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:06 AM.Poet, painter, Parisian punk, Patti Smith pal- New York fell hard for the charms of French artiste Lizzy Mercier Descloux when she swept into that city in the late 70s in a cloud of Gauloises smoke… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.Hugh Barlow reviews The Unknown Kimi Raikkonen by Kari Hotakainen, which is published by Simon & Schuster Ltd. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Abi Ramanan is the co-founder and CEO of food technology company ImpactVision - which has developed software using hyperspectral imaging to give food producers, retailers and consumers real-time… Read more Audio

9:51 AM.RNZI journalist, Johnny Blades with stories making news in the Pacific region including an environmental disaster unfolding in Solomon Islands. A tanker which is wedged on a reef off Rennell Island… Read more Audio

9:32 AM.New guidelines aimed at improving poor housing conditions have had their Southern Hemisphere launch in New Zealand. The guidelines relate to things like heating, crowding, and mould. The standards… Read more Audio

9:19 AM.As North Harbour scraps its under-14 rep programme, we ask Steve Lancaster of NZ Rugby how best to develop young rugby talent. The national body is creating an age-grade rugby guide for other… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Auckland's Birkenhead college has been criticised by civil liberties advocates for requiring parents to install what it calls "spyware" on their children's devices. The college has advised parents… Read more Audio

11:49 AM.Lara Strongman has been watching Demolition NZ on Prime, and Weinstein: Hollywood's Reckoning on TVNZ. Read more Audio

11:23 AM.CEO of Spectrum Education Karen Tui Boyes on how best to develop your child as a thinker by modelling your own behaviour. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Futurist, writer, educator and broadcaster, Mark Pesce on the Elon Musk-funded Open AI and the danger of the infinite fake news machine. Also, what happens when our chips can't get any smaller? Read more Audio

10:41 AM.Harry Broad reviews Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James, which is published by Penguin Random House. Read more Audio

10:09 AM.Maria Clarke has been at the centre of international efforts to clean up world sport since 2016, having been handed the batten by British running legend Lord Sebastian Coe.Now 3 years later she's in… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.UK correspondent Matt Dathan joins us with the very latest from the British Parliament, which is voting this morning on a handful of Brexit amendments. How is Jeremy Corbyn managing to stem the tide… Read more Audio

9:34 AM.Nearly 10 per cent of babies born in New Zealand will be premature, and while attention goes to their immediate medical needs - could they be missing out when it comes to crucial brain development… Read more Audio