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9:28 AM.The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons has apologised to all of those who have been victims of bullying, and says a culture change is needed. The College has accepted the findings of an inquiry… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.There are around 12-hundred 12 to 18 year olds in custody in New Zealand.

But it has taken a group of high school students to provide the first full assessment of the state of youth custody and the… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Professor Ursula Cheer of Canterbury University discusses media law, including a high profile defamation case involving the Australian treasurer. Audio

11:26 AM.Bart de Vries is a 29 year old who quit his job as a physiotherapist to start up before-work dance parties. Called, Rise & Shine, the alcohol free, dawn dance raves have been so popular, the last one… Read more Video, Audio

11:06 AM.Math rock champs Foals formed in Oxford, England in 2005 and released their debut album Antidotes in 2008. Led by frontman Yannis Philippakis, the quintet makes jittery, post-punk indie rock. Their… Read more Audio

10:39 AM.Reviewed by Crystal Beavis, Published by Orion Audio

10:12 AM.Marcus Butler is one of the world's biggest vloggers. At 23 years old he has his own channel on youtube Marcus Butler and it has almost four million subscribers. He vlogs about a vast range of topics… Read more Audio

9:53 AM.The Australian government is likely to announce, it will take more refugees from Syria beyond the current humanitarian quota. Prime Minister Tony Abbott had previously said Australia would take in… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.A new United Nations report says Gaza won't be fit to live in within five years if current trends persist. The UNCTAD report highlights the severe crises related to water and electricity, as well as… Read more Audio

9:32 AM.Some lower paid workers in the tourist resort town are living in overcrowded, slum conditions, despite the fact a third of the holiday homes lie empty for months. Lyal Cocks is the Deputy Mayor of… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Wellington's regional council is considering introducing congestion charges, motorway tolls and increased parking levies to deal with a projected increase in traffic coming into the capital. The… Read more Audio

11:43 AM.Discusses why sometimes it is right to shock - after the publication of the the pictures of Aylan Kurdi whose young lifeless body was pictured washed up on a Turkish beach. Audio

11:23 AM.One of Shakespeare's most famous plays is being given a make-over. Regan Taylor, the co-director of Te Rehia Theatre Company uses specially carved 'Maori performance masks' to re-work the Elizabethan… Read more Audio

11:11 AM.Rod Oram joins us from Beijing to talk about the prospect of the New Zealand meat processing company, Silver Fern Farms getting a Chinese investor. Audio

10:38 AM.Reviewed by Charlotte Graham, published by Allen an Unwin. Audio

10:13 AM.Simon Colton is a computer scientist, currently working in the Computational Creativity Group at Goldsmiths College in the University of London, where he is Professor of Computational Creativity. He… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:51 AM.Obama 's successful nuclear deal with Iran and Hillary Clinton getting into more hot water over her private e-mails. Audio

9:35 AM.Australian Gill Hicks was almost killed in the July 2005 London Tube bombings. She lost both her legs. When she recovered she devoted herself to a mission of spreading peace, setting up charity Making… Read more Audio

9:34 AM.Is a law change needed to deal with the country's stray cat problem? Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Ted Dawe's award winning Young Adult book Into the River has been caught up in a scrap between the Office of Film and Literature Classification and the independent review body over what, if any… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Flags, currency and design. Audio

11:36 AM.New Zealander's are big fans of the Spring vegetable, we eat about 2500 tonnes of it each year. In New Zealand asparagus usually becomes available from late September through til Christmas. Geoff… Read more Audio

11:11 AM.Growing pressure on John Key over NZ's refugee intake, the flag debate and Maurice Williamson back in the headlines. Audio

10:35 AM.Reviewed by Gail Pittaway. Published by HarperCollins. Audio

10:08 AM.As a child, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country, North Korea, was the best on the planet. It wasn't until the devastating famine of the 1990s that she began to question what she had always been taught… Read more Audio