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9:05 AM.Accounting firm Xero has recorded an 81 percent rise in late payment costs by small businesses in the last two years. Late payments cost small businesses $456 million in 2021, and this jumped to $827… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.We rewind 100 years of sporting history to look at the All Black team that blitzed its rivals. Historian, Dr Jock Phillips has spent a career uncovering and documenting Aotearoa New Zealand's past… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Charlotte will have details about a new album from Reb Fountain and a new documentary screening in cinemas this week about Paul McCartney and Wings, called One Hand Clapping. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.The CEO of the Queenstown Lakes District Council Mike Theelen has just been awarded a 15.5% pay rise to $479,486, which Peter says has produced considerable community backlash given the current rate… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Laura Caygill reviews Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan published by Penguin Books. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Craig Semple spent nearly twenty five years investigating some of the worst crimes imaginable. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Chris Niesche talks about an online dating code and how negative equity and capital gains taxes are back on the national agenda. Read more Audio

9:25 AM.Age Concern Rotorua had plans to build tiny homes at a good rent for the elderly - but now the man behind the project says the process was a red tape nightmare. Read more Audio

9:15 AM.A Parliamentary committee has released its report into climate change adaptation, but some of the committee's own MPs think it is too vague. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Iran has launched a missile attack on Israel - and warns more is to come.Kathryn speaks with the BBC's Defence Correspondent, Frank Gardner. Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Joe looks at the All Blacks Bledisloe Cup win and to the tough tests ahead.  Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Symonds Street cemetery is a slice of inner city Auckland history and the final resting place for more than 10,000 people. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Rebecca says the best-performing stock on the ASX in 2023, has a market cap of about $2.2 billion, it doesn't have an office, and was founded in New Zealand. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.The typical Wellington residential rates bill will be $3000 more expensive by 2028. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Melanie O'Loughlin of Lamplight Books in Auckland reviews Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner published by Jonathan Cape. Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Jane Carswell this year achieved the fastest crossing of New Zealand by bike. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.One minute Eve Sylvester is beside her new boyfriend in a car... the next, a deadly car wreck turns her life upside down.  Read more Audio

9:45 AM.It's the eve of the Vice Presidential debate between Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben joins Kathryn. Read more Audio

9:35 AM.There's mounting evidence that Israel may be about to launch a ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon.  Read more Audio

9:20 AM.More than 300 applications for speed bumps, raised crossings and other traffic calming measures won't progress after the Government withdrew the funding available to local councils. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Time's up for Aucklanders with 2023 storm-affected homes to register for council buyout or remediation, amid concern those unregistered may be living in potential death traps. Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Kennedy joins Kathryn with a food theme today - talking about bananas and tips for growing them in New Zealand. Read more Audio

11:25 AM.With New Zealand cheese month starting tomorrow what better time to go to one of the country's top cheesemakers.  Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Kathryn, Dale and Brigitte talk about some of the coalition agreements that are in effect and also the challenges of three party decision making. Read more Audio