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10:07 AM.Stanley Johnson is a former British Conservative Member of the European parliament, an environmentalist and author. His latest novel is a thriller called Komromat, about Russian interference in the… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.Political reporter at the Press Association, Harriet Line, on the former Russian double agent Sergei Skirpal and his daughter who are fighting for their lives following their exposure to a nerve agent… Read more Audio

9:42 AM.It's widely known that New Zealand is one of the fattest nations in the world, but new research has highlighted its detrimental effects on the environment. The University of Oregon report says factors… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.After three years and thousands of submissions, there's still no plan for Marine Protected Areas on the South Island's south-east coast, with two competing proposals now kicked back to the government… Read more Audio

11:26 AM.The remarkable story of a precious meeting house returned after more than a century is told in a new book co-authored by the Māori academic who played a major part in its return. Prominent writer and… Read more Audio

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