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10:05 AM.In his new book Pathogenesis Dr Jonathan Kennedy offers a radical new frame to view human history. He argues that infectious diseases have been a decisive force in shaping humanity, from the… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.This weekend live American late-night shows - The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live plus those hosted by Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers - go off-air and turn to repeats… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Award-winning writer Dr Emma Espiner (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou) talks to Kim Hill about her unconventional upbringing, ditching her recruitment job for med school and how New Zealand can improve… Read more Audio

8:36 AM.Dr George Gross, a visiting research fellow at King's College London and co-founder of the British Coronations Project, says the crowning of William the Conqueror in 1066 set the tone for future… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to head to central London this weekend to celebrate King Charles's Coronation. We catch up with the BBC World Service's UK Political Correspondent Rob… Read more Audio

11:37 AM.The world has recently conspired against Australian based New Zealander Kerryn Fields introducing her music to Aotearoa, with disasters as a backdrop. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Reflecting on what makes a place home, Alie Benge's collection of essays Ithaca takes us to wildly different places from her past: from Ethiopia as a child to time spent in the Australian Army and… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.In Australian author and broadcaster Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms he delves into the life of medieval wanderers who travelled to the outer edges of the known world during Islam's… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Romantic comedy or rom-com, is often used as shorthand for something shallow and lacking in substance, but Minneapolis author Curtis Sittenfeld loves them. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.NASA's new head scientist, Dr Nicola Fox, is on a mission to uncover the mysteries of the Universe and has an over eight billion dollar budget to do it. Read more Audio

The average New Zealand rubbish bin is half-full of food scraps. Although we hear a bit about megatonnes of food waste rotting in landfills being a massive problem, it is also a missed… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.As the final series of HBO's hit drama Succession goes to air, the Murdoch media empire that inspired the show is dealing with its own dramas. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Fighting between Sudan's military and the Rapid Support Forces continued Friday, hours into a second 72 hour ceasefire say eyewitnesses. The situation across Sudan has deteriorated, with shortages of… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Listener Feedback for 22 April 2023. Audio

11:45 AM.Nomad gardener and The Edible Backyard author Kath Irvine is reporting in from a campground in Otepoti where she's been attending the Wild Dunedin New Zealand Festival of Nature. Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Alzheimer's disease is a devastating degenerative disorder that slowly destroys memory and eventually the ability to carry out the most basic tasks. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Jason Te Mete (Ngati Ranginui, Ngai Te Rangi) has been recovering from necrotising fasciitis, a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection that left him doubtful he could ever return to the stage. . Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Rebecca Struthers was just 17 when she set out on her path to become one of Britain's leading watchmakers. An active campaigner in the preservation of endangered heritage skills, Struthers family-run… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.When an autistic and a non-autistic person have a social interaction, there's an assumption that if non-autistic people are doing it "right" autistic people must be doing it "wrong," says research… Read more Video, Audio

8:20 AM.New Zealand born Anthony McCarten is arguably the world's best known biopic screenwriter and playwright Past subjects have included Whitney Houston, Edison, Churchill and the band Queen, and this year… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.This morning the Australian government has announced a direct pathway to citizenship for New Zealanders. The announcement comes just ahead of ANZAC Day. We last spoke to ABC chief political… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Last week we spoke to Michele Leggott about her experiences with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. What we didn't get to talk about was the book and research work Leggott has been working on over this time: her… Read more Audio