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11:10 AM.Pioneering Jamaican vocalist Sister Nancy is performing in Aotearoa for the first time this weekend, with shows in Raglan and Auckland. Bass-addled fanboy Grant Smithies is beside himself with… Read more Video, Audio

10:38 AM.Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews Logical Family by Armistead Maupin, published by Doubleday. Audio

10:06 AM.Often portrayed as the cool-dude larrikin, living a life of excess, the veteran Australian actor Steve Bisley has made a name for himself in TV series such as Water Rats and Police Rescue and has… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.A new prime minister in the Solomon Islands, elections in Tonga, Australia pushes a Chinese company out of Melanesia and plans for floating cities in French Polynesia are unveiled. Audio

9:37 AM.Paediatrician Professor Andrew Pollard is a world expert on vaccination; he advises the World Health Organisation and is the Chair of the United Kingdom's Joint Committee on Vaccination and… Read more Audio

9:22 AM.One of the world's biggest environmental organisations The Nature Conservancy has just released an assessment of New Zealand's fisheries. It finds while New Zealand is ahead of most countries in… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.With just 6 weeks until the end of the year, 325 people have died on the roads... ...that's just three fewer than all of last year. An analysis of the road toll by consultants Deloitte, and just… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Sarah Putt discusses the tension between regulation and technology as outlined in new report Analog Regulation, Digital World: what is NZ's track record and we are getting it right? Also, happy 10th… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Sonja deFriez reviews Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece by Stephen Fry, published by Penguin. Random House NZ. Audio

10:09 AM.Peter Carey tackles the fraught and shameful parts of Australia's Aboriginal history in his latest novel. He tells Kathryn Ryan that it's time all Australians do whatever they can to help ease pain… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.The big stumbling block holding up progress in Brexit negotiations between the UK and the EU, and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson faces calls to resign over the tragic case of Nazanin… Read more Audio

9:31 AM.It's only in the great outdoors that children can learn crucial life lessons like resilience and respect, says scholar and child advocate Tim Gill. Read more Audio

9:22 AM.New Zealand's Dr Michael Walls has the unusual job of being the chief international observer of presidential elections in Somaliland, a country that has yet to gain international recognition. This… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:08 AM.What now for Zimbabwe as its military places the country's only ever president, 93 year old Robert Mugabe, under house arrest? Kathryn Ryan talks to our Africa correspondent. Read more Audio

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