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11:28 AM.Sarah Wilkins is the only New Zealand illustrator involved in the wildly successful Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls book series. She's also designed a mural in Paris and just collaborated on the… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:10 AM.Many of us keep spending money we don't have, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't know. To stem this tide of waste we need to become more – not less –​ materialistic, economist and… Read more Audio

9:39 AM.'Slacktivism' and, ironically, the belief that people power can change society are undermining attempts at collective action, new research has shown. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Drug buyer Pharmac says there's been a 30% higher than predicted demand of the HPV vaccine, which protects against cervical, mouth, throat, penis and anal cancers. The human papillomavirus vaccine was… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.An iwi wants the government to help stop people entering the Waitakere Ranges this summer as athe disease threatening to wipe out kauri intensifies. Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Kathryn meets Stephen Boxer, former soldier and founder of the South Auckland youth development programme, MYND, which works with the high risk offenders as a last chance before jail. It's a community… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:07 AM.The CPTPP - will there be a deal? If so, what kind of deal will it be? And Xero reports its first profit, but ditches the NZX. Audio

10:07 AM.Until Germany's humiliating World War I defeat ignited his political ambitions and nationalistic hatred, Adolf Hitler was more a 'reject' than a monster, says Australian historian Paul Ham. Read more Audio

9:48 AM.Steve Almond has the latest from the USA including the uncertain future of Roy Moore, the Alabama senate candidate accused of sexual predation. Also more on Trump and Putin and the continuing fallout… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.On the anniversary of the Kaikoura earthquake, more than 100 overseas scientists have joined about 20 more New Zealand geologists in Blenheim for the eighth annual International Workshop on… Read more Audio

9:11 AM.Environmental historian, Catherine Knight examines the catalogue of missed opportunities since the birthplace of the Manapouri environmental movement. Her new book, 'Beyond Manapouri: 50 years of… Read more Audio

11:31 AM.Tricia Watson runs Napier-based Orcona Chillis 'N Peppers business with husband Alvin. They make about 20 different products to spice up your life, including relishes, pickles, sauces, dried… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton discuss the latest from the TPP negotiations. Audio

10:40 AM.Charlotte Graham reviews The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz, published by MacLeHose. Audio

10:08 AM.Sir Gordon Tietjen's names is synonymous with rugby sevens. For 20 years he coached the NZ Sevens team, through more than 100 international tournaments, winning four Commonwealth Games gold medals, 12… Read more Audio

9:51 AM.Seamus Kearney on Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy's visit to Barcelona a day after a massive pro-independence rally - and the first time since imposing direct rule. Audio

9:42 AM.The Ngai Tuhoe meeting house Te Wharehou o Waikaremoana and its designers have won the Ted McCoy Award for Education at this year's New Zealand Architecture Awards. Kathryn Ryan talks to Hugh Tennant… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:30 AM.Modern classrooms are closely linked to innovative teaching methods and deeper learning, research in New Zealand and Australia has found. Read more Audio

9:09 AM.The Problem Gambling Foundation and a number of psychologists concerned over what they say is an alarming new trend of video games that encourage children to gamble. They're called pay-to-loot… Read more Audio