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10:05 AM.For someone whose first words were purportedly "Donald Duck", Dylan Horrocks has done very well in directing his keen interest into a career. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:44 AM.A quirky fundraiser for women with breast cancer cooked up by a bunch of friends over a bottle of bubbly is now a fixture on the Gisborne social calendar. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:38 AM.DOC has reached an agreement with people opposed to 1080 which could see future poison drops in the Mt Taranaki area canned. Read more Audio

9:26 AM.Ian Cassels is a director of The Wellington Company which has interests in 13 Wellington CBD buildings. He tells Kathryn Ryan there needs to be a rethink of building on Wellington's reclaimed land. Audio

9:05 AM.The central city was reopened for business on Tuesday - just one day after what we now know was one of the three biggest earthquakes to hit New Zealand in over a century. The Civil Defence Minister… Read more Audio

11:47 AM.Tamar Munch looks at the finalists in the second NZ Webfest competition including K' Rd stories - a series of 10 short stories set on Auckland's most notorious street and Lovely Little Losers - A… Read more Audio

11:23 AM.How do you keep a child informed about disaster risk while protecting them from incessant talk of threat? Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Reviewed by Catriona Fergusson, published by Text Publishing. Audio

10:11 AM.Kathryn Ryan speaks to the Royal Society's first female mathematician to be made a fellow, Professor Hinke Osinga. Now at the University of Auckland, Hinke Osinga specialises in dynamical systems… Read more Audio

9:51 AM.Dame Ann Leslie on the Oxford Dictionary's International Word of the Year -"Post-Truth": when a person's views and decisions are based solely on emotion, fake news stories and cyber security in the… Read more Audio

9:39 AM.Gene editing has the potential to bring huge benefits to New Zealand, including in healthcare, agriculture and conservation. What are the social, ethical & legal issues, especially when it comes to… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Kathryn Ryan talks with prominent earthquake engineer, Dr David Hopkins, who says it's time for a change in the way we rate buildings, following this week's 7.8 magnitude earthquake. She also talks… Read more Audio

11:26 AM.Kathryn Ryan meets the founders of LearnCoach, Dave Cameron and Deborah Lambie. The non-profit tutoring website provides free video tutorials, downloadable tutorial summaries, old NCEA exams and… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Danish singer-songwriter Agnes Obel is a classically trained pianist who developed a love of jazz as a teenager. All of these tantalizing influences show up on the three albums Obel has released since… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Fashion imagineer Nixi Killick talks to Kathryn Ryan about designing for Lady Gaga, & Kimbra and her tech focused streetwear. Her label NXK has been hitting runways around the world, most recently… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:39 AM.New Zealand retailers are being warned they must gear up for major disruption in the digital market with the prospect of global players like Amazon extending their reach here. Kathryn Ryan talks to… Read more Audio

9:36 AM.Winton Dalley has been travelling around to help the worst effected areas. Today he is going to Mount Lyford. Audio

9:28 AM.Hugh Wells is a sheep and beef farmer about 2 kilometres from the town of Waiau. Audio