The Panel for Thursday 1 November 2018

3:45 PM.Banks and TV opening credits. Read more Audio

3:52 PM.The murdeous sculpture in Christchurch's Botanic Gardens. Audio

4:03 PM.Protestors target the representation of US weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin at Palmerston North's Defence, Industry and National Security Forum. But, NZ First MP Darroch Ball says many other… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.Protestors target the representation of US weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin at Palmerston North's Defence, Industry and National Security Forum. But, NZ First MP Darroch Ball says many other… Read more Audio

4:14 PM.The Immigration Minister has more digging to do on a Czech criminal after it came to light that the Courts allowed him to return to his homeland twice on business. This appears to negate the argument… Read more Audio

4:20 PM.An Indian overseas student Shyamal Patel completed a Masters in International Studies at IPU in Palmerston North, writing her dissertation on supermarkets and buyer behaviour.She then worked as an… Read more Audio

4:29 PM.A Kidscan survey of women and girls has found that more than half have either frequently or occasionally found it difficult to access sanitary items due to cost, nearly a quarter have missed school or… Read more Audio

4:33 PM.Forty per cent of degrees will soon be obsolete and will merely be markers of achievement and study. Traditional under- and post-graduate degrees will disappear within a decade. More than half of… Read more Audio

4:39 PM.What the Panelists Susan Hornsby-Geluk and Mike Rehu want to talk about. Audio

4:46 PM.Residential property sellers might be popping the champagne corks but tenants are falling further behind with their housing needs. Tommy Kapai Wilson from the Tauranga's Tuinga Whanau Social Services… Read more Audio

4:53 PM.The editor of the magazine attached to the Waitrose British supermarket chain has been sacked after emailing a joke about killing vegans. Freelance journalist Selene Nelson pitched a series of stories… Read more Audio

4:57 PM.The odd Lime scooter seems to have caught fire in the United States because of battery issues triggering a partial recall. Three people died on e-scooters last month and there's a class-action lawsuit… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Public law expert Mai Chen is in Auckland and columnist Andrew Frame is in the RNZ Napier studio.