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10:07 AM.Nicholas McGegan has been hailed as one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation. He's an expert in early music, as well as accomplished flautiest and harpsichordist. He's about in New… Read more Audio

9:52 AM.UK Politics. Storm Desmond. Audio

9:34 AM.The UK based Institue of Strategic Dialogue has been keeping a close watch on those who have travelled to the region, and say more than 550 western women gone there to join Islamic State. In a recent… Read more Audio

9:19 AM.Safari operator and environmental writer Ian Michler has exposed a multi million dollar industry in South Africa, where lions are bred in captivity to be shot by trophy hunters 

And that the practice… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:08 AM.RNZ Business Editor Gyles Beckford discusses the Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler's latest Official Cash Rate announcement. Audio

11:48 AM.Siouxsie Wiles gets to grips with sexy song birds and 'God spots' and talks about a recent New Zealand study that suggests there is no benefit to taking paracetamol when you've got the flu. Audio

11:27 AM.Rather than lending books, the Porirua Peoples Library is a place where people lend their time, sharing their stories and knowledge and skills with other members of the community. It's only been… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Music of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks emerged from the late 1960s San Francisco scene that included The Grateful Dead & Jefferson Airplane. Hicks was drummer for The… Read more Audio

10:39 AM.Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2016 Edited by Susanna Andrews and Jolia Gracewood Foreword by John Campbell. Reviewd by Harry Ricketts, published by Auckland University Press. This has… Read more Audio

10:09 AM.Brooklyn-based theatre director, Bryan Doerries, is the founder of the 'Theatre of War' project, and the 'Outside of the Wire' company which presents ancient Greek plays to returned soldiers, addicts… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Australia as an 'innovation nation'. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has unveiled a $1.1 billion "ideas boom" designed to take over where Australia's mining boom left off.  Audio

9:40 AM.Top genetic scientists from all around the world met in New York last week and put together a list of guidelines to help navigate the ethical minefield of human genetic modifications. The summit was… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.The Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has faced an onslaught of criticism after he called for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States. Senior republicans - including other… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Pacific Nations addressing the COP21 climate change conference in Paris have said their futures are at extreme risk from climate change, and that a binding ambitious agreement is vital. The Prime… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.A draft deal has to be signed by tomorrow morning - but a split remains between developed and developing nations. But some negotiators say that deadline is unlikely to be met - New Zealand's Climate… Read more Audio

11:46 AM.Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz Audio

11:30 AM.It's estimated there are around 5 thousand disused historic excavations and mines around New Zealand - but we only have records for half of them. WorkSafe New Zealand and New Zealand Petroleum &amp… Read more Audio

11:19 AM.Our Washington correspondent Simon Marks. Audio

11:06 AM.Central banks' decisions on interest rates get ever harder, beginning with NZ's Reserve Bank this Thursday. Audio

10:40 AM.Book Review: 'Te Whiti O Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka' by Danny Keenan. Reviewed by Harry Broad, published by Huia Publishers. Audio

10:11 AM.Given the rapid advances in genetic technologies it's been speculated that everything from woolly mammoths, to passenger pigeons, to our own close cousins the Neanderthals could soon walk the earth… Read more Audio

9:53 AM.Mark Zuckerberg's new philanthropic organisation and claims it is just a way to avoid tax. Also, Carrie Fisher's Pre Star Wars Press Tour and Obama & the Rising Tide of Xenophobia. Audio

9:38 AM.If the world is to limit itself to two degrees of global warming it will need to rapidly embrace new power sources and energy efficient technologies. At the heart of those technologies is a group of… Read more Audio

9:23 AM.Representatives from some of New Zealand's largest companies are gathering in Wellington this week to hear from one the world's top cyber security experts, Kristopher Rush from the Software… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.At least 11 new retirement villages are needed to be built every year, for the next forty years to meet demand according to a new report by property specialist JLL. Simon Challies is the Managing… Read more Audio