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9:20 AM.A sleep expert says the working day needs to be changed as it's akin to torture for a sleep-deprived society. Dr Paul Kelley from the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at Oxford University… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.The FIFA secretary Jerome Valcke has been suspended by football's world governing body. Valcke has been put on leave and released from his duties until further notice. A FIFA statement said it had… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.The remastered version of what Paul believes is the greatest documentary of all time: The Civil War by Ken Burns. Paul also talks about his evening watching TV in Los Angeles and the strange outbursts… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.New Apple products. The Facebook dislike button. Audio

10:38 AM.I, Clodia and Other Portraits by Anna Jackson, published by Auckland University Press, Poetry and reviewed by Harry Ricketts; co-editor of the quarterly review, New Zealand Books. Audio

10:05 AM.Respected British political scientist Sir Ivor Crewe argues that Britain has been badly governed for decades because politicians hoard power and ignore well-informed critics. Sir Ivor Crewe is the… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Catherine Drew reports on Jeremy Corbyn's first few days at the helm of Labour. Audio

9:36 AM.Dr. Louise Prockter is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, in the US. She has been involved in several robotic space missions, from the… Read more Audio

9:19 AM.Andrew Leslie is the Chief Executive of New Zealand Recreation Association. He's concerned that funding from local Government for public parks is not sustainable and if alternative investment isn't… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Hungarian riot police have fired teargas and water cannon at desperate migrants near the Serbian town of Horgos. Hungary this week closed its entire border with Serbia, and made it illegal to enter… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Surviving a global pandemic on Great Barrier Island; stressed elephants have fewer babies and age faster; humans are hard-wired for laziness; and Illuminating. Audio

11:30 AM.Jack Andraka is a teenage scientist, inventor and cancer researcher. The young American is recognised for his role in developing a rapid and inexpensive method which detects an increase in proteins… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.After recording with her sisters as The Braxtons, Toni Braxton stepped out on her own, appearing on the soundtrack to Eddie Murphy's Boomerang film in 1992 under the direction of LA Reid and Babyface… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.For Jan Arnold, watching the last days of her husband's Rob Hall's life portrayed in the film Everest brought back feelings of loss and helplessness. Read more Video, Audio

9:50 AM.Bernard Keane on the quickly changing face of Australia's government. Audio

9:30 AM.There's new evidence the seas around East Antarctica are warming faster than previously thought - which could lead to much higher sea level rises.

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9:05 AM.As Europe fails to reach an agreement over how to share the burden of the massive flow of asylum seekers out of Syria and Iraq, we meet Christchurch woman Anne Tee, who has lived on the tiny Greek… Read more Audio

11:42 AM.Gavin Ellis discusses Scout, the new co-production of MediaWorks and former New Zealand Herald gossip columnist Rachel Glucina which was launched on Monday. Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and… Read more Audio

11:23 AM.Dr. Nancy Donovan is a geriatric psychiatrist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Some of her recent research has found than loneliness… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Rod Oram discusses China's environmental issues. Audio

10:39 AM.Reviewed by Elisabeth Easther, published by Quercus. Audio

10:12 AM.Underwater photojournalist Brian Skerry has spent the last 30 years documenting the beauty of the ocean and its marine life. But increasingly his pictures serve another purpose - to highlight the… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:49 AM.Cheating in the NFL, police brutality at the US Open. Audio

9:36 AM.In Christchurch some residents have reported seeing rats openly walking around the red zone. Rat catchers say this is not due to an increase in rat numbers, but the fact there are fewer humans around… Read more Audio