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11:48 AM.University of Canterbury Professor of Law, Ursula Cheer, discusses Melania's Trump's defamation claim against the New York based US publisher of MailOnline, Mail Media Inc, and a US blogger named… Read more Audio

11:29 AM.Drug and alcohol expert Professor David Best talks to Nine to Noon about creating a sense of community for recovering and recovered addicts. Until recently responses to addiction focused on treatment… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins is considered the last of the saxophone greats; his playing on par with jazz greats Charlie Parker and John Coltrane.  Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Kathryn Myronuk is an expert on the technological advances shaping our future. Read more Audio

9:52 AM.This week Australia Correspondent Bernard Keane talks about China and deteriorating relations between the economic powerhouse and Australia. There's also a Labor senator in hot water after he accepted… Read more Audio

9:39 AM.The days of Islamic State controlling large swaths of territory and major cities in Iraq and Syria appear to be numbered with an assault one of its last strongholds, the Iraqi city of Mosul, expected… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Kathryn Ryan talks to Education Minister Hekia Parata about changes to the way schools are funded. Schools find out today how much extra they'll get out of a new $12.3m fund targeting the children of… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Alix Coysh is progressively going blind, and the 22 year old University of Auckland Masters student wants to do a PhD in retinal genetics - trying to find a cure for her condition, retinitis… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Professor of Immunology at Victoria University Anne La Flamme has spent over 20 years researching auto-immunity, or what can cause the immune system to attack its own healthy cells and tissues. She… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.A review of over 100 contracts across a range of different industries has found that unfair contract terms are rife, and even if the law is on the client's side it's very difficult to enforce. Nine to… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Whakatane-based wild food cook Mawera Karetai prides herself on her ability to rely mainly on nature to keep her freezer and pantry stocked. Read more Audio

11:08 AM.The New Zealand First conference, the ongoing fallout from the Hawkes Bay water contamination and the Auckland Mayoralty race. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Victoria University students, Kahu Kutia and Kayla Polamalu talk to Kathryn Ryan about growing up with two different identities in New Zealand, and about the term White Māori. They have Māori and… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Parliament's Social Services select committee, is set to start hearings into whether there should be mandatory registration of social workers this week. Nearly 6000 social workers are voluntarily… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.A new report into the schooling of children with disabilities finds myriad barriers, including exclusion, bullying, poor teaching and funding. The report, by the community law centre Youth Law… Read more Audio