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10:12 AM.A grandson of a Mexican immigrant, Francisco Cantu became a US Border Patrol agent at the age of 23, spending four years policing the frontier migrants risk their lives to cross. Read more Audio

9:36 AM.US orthotic specialist Marmaduke Loke is fitting customised carbon fibre leg braces which are allowing polio survivors to walk properly for perhaps the first time in their lives. He tells Kathryn Ryan… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Is a shake up of the tax system looming? How likely are new taxes such as a broader capital gains tax, environmental taxes, and wealth taxes? The government's tax working group, headed by former the… Read more Audio

11:43 AM.Gavin joins Kathryn and asks should the politically-connected be banned from media commentary? And he also looks at the latest readership figures - and NZME rightly trumpeted an increase for the… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Bronwyn Holloway-Smith has been on the trail of New Zealand artist E. Mervyn Taylor's lost or imperilled modernist murals. Both detective and restorer, based at Massey University's College of Creative… Read more Audio

11:11 AM.Business commentator Rod Oram has more on the repercussions of Rod Drury stepping down at Xero and also Fonterra going to court to get an injunction against the media. Audio

10:39 AM.Harry Ricketts reviews Summer Grass by Ginny Sullivan, published by Steele Roberts. Audio

10:07 AM.A fictional sex scandal from the 1960s is at the heart of the latest novel by Alan Hollinghurst. Hollinghurst is considered one of Britain’s foremost writers. His satire of 1980s Britain at the height… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.Steve Almond joins Kathryn with reaction to Trump's trade wars, the Oscars and a teachers strike in West Virginia - one of the most staunchly pro-Trump states in the US. Audio

9:35 AM.Housing warrants of fitness should be made compulsory, according to Professor David Ormandy, academic who led the development of the UK’s housing rating system. Read more Audio

9:20 AM.A team of Wellington developers has created a free resource for people who can't afford a lawyer but need to seek legal aid, through the use of artificial intelligence. The project will make… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.A proposal to fund 'day activities' for beggars on the Capital's streets at the cost of a million dollars will be considered by Wellington City Council. The idea is to address anti-social and… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.What happens when you buy a house that used to be a P-Lab? And Upper Greys Avenue, the Housing NZ apartment building, is facing demolition. Bill McKay is Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture… Read more Audio

11:31 AM.Two New Zealanders have turned their love of Japanese cuisine into a business venture offering foodie tours to the country’s capital. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:07 AM.A look at the recent National Party leadership shuffle - what will the makeup of the new Cabinet look like? And reaction to Jacinda Ardern's visit to Australia. Audio

10:38 AM.Graham Beattie reviews Still Me by Jojo Moyes, published by Penguin Random House. Audio

10:10 AM.Bex Skerman was 26 when she became New Zealand's youngest female school principal at a tiny primary school in Hawkes Bay. The community of Bridge Pa school near Hastings faces many challenges, not… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.Italians vote in elections that could see 81-year-old Berlusconi return as a kingmaker, or see a 31-year-old become PM, and the latest reactions in Europe over Trump's threats and outbursts over… Read more Audio

9:41 AM.A new report from the New Zealand initiative is calling for a reform of NCEA because it is failing too many students, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. The think tank says too many… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.A new law has come into force enabling the compulsory treatment of some of the most extreme alcohol and drug addicted patients, but only nine beds are funded for the whole country - all of them in… Read more Audio