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9:08 AM.A warning to home owners about stick-on window films which promise to drastically reduce heat loss. Some claim to reduce internal heat loss in winter by up to 44 per cent, at a cost of thousands of… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Pip Adam's experimental novel, The New Animals has taken out New Zealand's top fiction prize. The novel parodies the Auckland fashion scene; part gritty social realism, part science fiction. Judges… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.With the Pacific Music Awards coming up, Kirsten Johnstone introduces some of the new names who might join previous winners including Adeaze, Savage, Aaradhna, Ladi 6, Te Vaka, Nesian Mystik, and… Read more Video, Audio

10:42 AM.Reviewed by Louise O'Brien, published by VUP. Audio

10:11 AM.A team of specialist researchers at the University of London have developed a new sub-discipline of architecture, reconstructing buildings after conflict or catastrophe. Forensic Architecture creates… Read more Audio

9:51 AM.Karen joins Kathryn with the latest in the reaction to the Margaret River shootings in Western Australia that has rocked the country. She also has news about an upgrade to airport security around the… Read more Audio

9:42 AM.NIWA is about to go live with its new 18 million dollar super-computer tasked with revolutionising weather forecasting. The Cray XC50 is three huge computers built especially for NIWA by the… Read more Audio

9:32 AM.Advocates for science based health care are sounding warnings about tailored health supplement subscription services in New Zealand, saying they're not worth the money. It follows the launch of two… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.A review of the culture at the Human Rights Commission has found 17-percent of staff have witnessed or directly experienced inappropriate behaviours in the course of their work in the past five years… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Gavin Ellis joins Kathryn to look back over the winners of last week's Voyager Media Awards; are rules needed for journalists going on news junkets and does NZ need a single radio ratings system… Read more Audio

11:21 AM.The US often gets a bad rap for its apparent addiction to fossil fuels, but behind the scenes much is happening in the renewable energy space. James Redford (Robert Redford's son) is the director of… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.This week Rod looks into ANZ overcharging some customers; the NZ Superannuation Fund says its interested in bank-rolling Auckland's trams and Xerox calls off its plans to sell its half-share in… Read more Audio

10:41 AM.Reviewed by Harry Broad, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

10:08 AM.Uzodinma Iweala is an award winning writer, film maker, editor and medical doctor whose long awaited second novel, Speak No Evil, has just been published. He grew up in Nigeria and the United States… Read more Audio

9:33 AM.Hawaii is about to become the first US state to ban the sale of some sunscreens containing products harmful to coral reefs.The chemicals oxybenzone and octinoxate are found in a number of popular… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.It's 70 years since the creation of the state of Israel and for the first time, the United States has recognized as Jerusalem, as Israel's capital. That marks a break from America's previous role as… Read more Audio

11:46 AM.How can city planners avoid developers squeezing too many units into multi-unit sites to maximise profit and the many dangers of buying off plans which may not be accurate or to scale. Bill McKay says… Read more Audio

11:33 AM.Go nuts for GLOW-nuts ! Graham Joe from Gelissimo has been making quirky neon icecreams for Wellington's LUX light event for years. This year he has out-done himself by extending the Glow menu beyond… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:07 AM.Matthew Hooton is the managing director of the PR and lobbying firm, Exceltium. Stephen Mills is the executive director of UMR Research and former political adviser to two Labour governments. Audio

10:39 AM.Reviewed by Sonja DeFriez, published by Simon & Schuster. Audio

10:11 AM.Six-time Grammy-winning jazz bassist Christian McBride is a virtuoso soloist, organizer of many different ensembles, and the artistic director at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center's jazz program… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.European leaders scurry to regroup after Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and decide Europe's action plan in what's described by some as a huge rupture in trans-Atlantic relations. In… Read more Audio

9:31 AM.Industrial action wad being taken by some Uber drivers today over low pay and conditions. Kathryn Ryan talks to Sher Abid from the Rideshare Drivers Network - which is a group representing drivers… Read more Audio