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9:08 AM.New Zealand scientists drilling into the Alpine Fault on the West Coast have found much higher temperatures than expected - which as well as being scientifically exciting could also be commercially… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Claire Braiden is a Northland Region Men's Corrections Facility officer who came up with the idea of a prison band, and a Battle of the Bands concept for New Zealand Music Month. She tells Kathryn… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Graeme Downes, founding member of the Verlaines, songwriter, musicologist, senior lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Otago. Audio

10:35 AM.Catriona Ferguson reviews the House of Names by Anita Shreve. Audio

10:08 AM.US President Donald Trump has asked then-FBI Director James Comey to shut down an investigation into ties between then-White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russia, according to the… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Author, freelance journalist and former Guggenheim Fellow Russ Rymer talks to Kathryn Ryan about his award winning National Geographic investigation into the death of tribal languages. In his Auckland… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Bernard Keane reports in on Liberal Party right-wingers being forced to swallow big spending and big borrowing as a matter of electoral survival. In response Labour proposes more tax for big earners.

9:40 AM.Kathryn Ryan talks to Associate Professor Mike Letnic, the senior author of a study which has found the removal of dingoes from eastern Australia has negatively affected everything from vegetation… Read more Audio

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Kathryn Ryan talks with Australian innovation scientist George Quezada about what developing technology will mean for the construction industry. He says we'll see 3D printed… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Claims that Donald Trump shared official secrets with Russia are the most serious ever levelled against a sitting president, a Harvard law professor says. Read more Audio

11:43 AM.Kathryn Ryan talks to Gavin Ellis about the future of Fairfax Media and its New Zealand newspapers, also a new inquiry into fake news is announced in Australia. Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and… Read more Audio

11:23 AM.Digital artists Lisa Reihana and James Pinker tell Kathryn Ryan about their incredible experience representing New Zealand at the 2017 Venice Biennale with their multi-media installation Emissaries. Read more Video, Audio

11:06 AM.Tax changes for NZ property investors and Australian banks and this year's high tech awards. Audio

10:11 AM.Young adult author Jennifer Niven talks to Kathryn Ryan about giving teenagers a voice, tackling serious issues like mental illness, death and self-esteem. Her debut YA novel, 'All the Bright Places'… Read more Audio

9:49 AM.Kathryn Ryan talks to Steve Almond about the ongoing fallout from President Trump's sacking of FBI chief, James Comey. Audio

9:29 AM.The dairy industry is celebrating the environmental achievements of farmers excluding stock from waterways. According to Dairy NZ's three year progress report on it's Water Accords the vast majority… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Tourism and hospitality careers are undervalued, despite being the country's largest export earner, and should be made University Entrance subjects again, a lecturer says. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Matthew and Stephen discuss associate housing minister Alfred Ngaro's swift backdown and apology after he threatened Labour MP Willie Jackson could miss out on funding for Charter schools and other… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Professor Greenberg, from Victoria's School of Mathematics and Statistics, is a world-leading researcher in the area of mathematical logic - the part of mathematics that regards language as an object… Read more Audio

9:49 AM.Kathryn Ryan talks to the University of Otago's sea-ice expert Professor Pat Langhorne. Sea-ice physics is a relatively new discipline, and there are many important questions that are still… Read more Audio