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10:35 AM.Elisabeth Easther reviews The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue published by Pan Macmillan. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Author Shilo Kino won a major award for her first book The Porangi Boy- and now her first novel for adults - released last year - is a finalist in Ockham Book Awards. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Chris Niesche looks at how the last polls are falling for the Albanese government and opposition parties ahead of the election this weekend.  Read more Audio

9:30 AM.The Court Theatre returning to the central city in Christchurch this week, fourteen years on from the devastating quakes that drove it out of the Arts Centre.  Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The government's consulting on health workforce regulation, but has already given the green light to a new role - physician associate. What do they do and is this a solution to staff shortages? Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Auckland FC win the Premier's Plate, the Warriors win in a Christchurch NRL match as the Super Rugby season inches towards the playoffs with Australian and New Zealand teams dominating the top six Read more Audio

11:30 AM.If you had to design the scariest insect you can imagine - it might come out looking something like a Wetapunga Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Rebecca Stevenson is a senior journalist at BusinessDesk Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Piers Fuller is the editor of the Wairarapa Times-Age, based in Masterton Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Harry Broad reviews Preachers, Pastors, Prophets: The Dominican Friars of Aotearoa New Zealand by Susannah Grant published by Otago University Press Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Henare O'Keefe is adamant that Flaxmere is on the up, and his part in that is no small matter Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Ron Elving is a Senior Editor and Correspondent, Washington Desk for NPR news. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.What was once the 40-Hour Famine is now the 40-Hour Challenge, and this year World Vision is hoping to inspire young New Zealanders with a test for the modern era - to go offline for 40 hours Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Outgoing Auditor General John Ryan says whoever is in power should be able to say what it wants to achieve, how much it will cost, and what progress is being made Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Kennedy Warne  on parachuting spiders, mice attacking albatross on Marion Island and  Pope Francis -  a voice for the Earth. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Conscious Valley has just won an outstanding food producer award for its lamb raised just outside the capital and solid direct to consumers. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Politics: Gareth Hughes and Ben Thomas talk about the Prime Minister's fortunes, Winston Peter's clash with RNZ and the NZ First Member's Bill to legally define a women Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Diane discusses the latest events in Whakatane including updates on the upcoming local elections. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Melanie O'Loughlin  reviews Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata  Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Former career diplomat, Derek Leask, has used maps, sketches and prints to illustrate how the New Zealand wars  unfolded in the mid nineteenth century in an atlas.  Read more Audio

9:20 AM.The Trump administration has been aggressively challenging the judiciary in the United States since taking office in January and some legal scholars in the United States are worried a constitutional… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The plans to close Segar House - which offers a publicly-funded, intensive psychotherapy day programme - the only one of its kind in the country. Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Film and television reviewer James Croot joins Kathryn to discuss  Read more Audio

11:25 AM.New data from NZ's largest ongoing cohort study - the Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal study - shows social connections and caring teachers are top of the list for 13-year-olds when talking… Read more Audio