The Panel for Thursday 13 December 2018

3:46 PM.What's Big Bird's real name? And what exactly was the vote Theresa May survived this morning? Audio

4:03 PM.Police investigating the killing of British backpacker Grace Millane have located a shovel believed to be related to their enquiry. But also today the Bar Association has come out to express concern… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.The Panel marks the death of Evelyn Berezin, the inventor of the word processor. What the panellists Cas Carter and Steve McCabe have on their minds. Panellist and Spinoff writer Hayden Donnell joins… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.Police investigating the killing of British backpacker Grace Millane have located a shovel believed to be related to their enquiry. But also today the Bar Association has come out to express concern… Read more Audio

4:12 PM.Theresa May is immune from leadership challenges for a year after winning a no-confidence vote. Audio

4:21 PM.The government is re-categorising the two most common synthetic drugs as Class A, which would make their supply an offence punishable by life imprisonment. It's also boosting funding for treatment. Audio

4:31 PM.The Panel marks the death of Evelyn Berezin, the inventor of the word processor. Audio

4:44 PM.What the panellists Cas Carter and Steve McCabe have on their minds. Audio

4:48 PM.Lianne Dalziel is dismayed at a Chinese-owned company getting approval to extract more than a billion litres of water from a Belfast water bore, saying there's been a distinct lack of public… Read more Audio

4:53 PM.Panellist and Spinoff writer Hayden Donnell joins us with the latest on his quest to bring back Auckland's Giant Santa's winking eye and beckoning finger Audio

4:56 PM.Watership Down being sanitised in live-action remake? Audio