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4:33 PM.Panellists Ed Amon and Lynda Hallinan discuss whether pizza should be a reward for reading, and the difficulty in recognising fake news. Audio

4:07 PM.Panellists Ed Amon and Lynda Hallinan discuss staff shortages in restaurants, whether booze should be sold over Easter, and the risk of New Zealand becoming a dumping ground for dirty cars. Audio

3:44 PM.Panellists share what they have been thinking. Audio

4:17 PM.Panellists Nicky Pellegrino and Peter Field discuss the newly announced trans-Tasman bubble, calls for self-swab cervical cancer tests, embracing the digital age. Read more Audio

3:45 PM.The Hamilton to Auckland commuter train made its first trip today. Panellists share what they have been thinking. Read more Audio

4:06 PM.Panellists Niki Bezzant and James Nokise discuss the minimum wage increase, rent caps, and lawn bowls. Read more Audio

3:46 PM.Panellists Niki Bezzant and James Nokise share what they have been thinking. We look back at some of the best April Fool's pranks of all time. Read more Audio

4:32 PM.The Cancer Society is calling for a significant reduction in the number of stores that are able to sell tobacco, a group of eight experts has been commissioned to work on a likely new public media… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.The government's plan for light rail, banning cellphones from schools, a local council lego challenge prompts debate. Read more Audio

3:45 PM.The Panellists ponder listeners questions about social etiquette during the weekly Dear Panel segment. Read more Audio

4:07 PM.Victoria Stewart and Allan Blackman discuss the future of provincial rugby, the origins of the word 'mufti', new research on specific warnings for roll your own tobacco pouches, and maximalism versus… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.Victoria Stewart and Allan Blackman discuss timber giant Carter Holt Harvey's decision to stop supplying timber to some major retailers, 'blind job interviews', and Hot Wheels. Read more Audio

3:45 PM.It turns out that all that philanthropy that the most elite super wealthy people in the US and UK is actually mostly self-serving. Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Part 1: Calls are growing for some sort of stronger NZ response over what is happening to the Uyghur peoples in China. The Panel discusses an interesting opinion piece arguing that non-homeowners are… Read more Audio

3:45 PM.Pre-panel: Friday mailbag includes a chat with Anne about her Hamilton Beach cake mixer her mother bought second-hand in the 1940s. Panellists Paula Penfold and Garry Moore share what they have been… Read more Audio

4:32 PM.Thursday marks one year since New Zealand first moved to alert level 4, after cases of Covid-19 in the community kept climbing as people returned from overseas. Should you be allowed to withdraw some… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.The results of a survey into safety on Wellington streets with Victoria University students Sophia Harrison and Ella Lamont. The health system is under "serious stress" and the Cabinet is poised to… Read more Audio

3:45 PM.The controversial symbol of female oppression - the corset is back in fashion. Caitlin Cherry explains. What panellists Brodie Kane and Scott Campbell have been thinking. Read more Audio

4:33 PM.The Panel debates whether New Zealand needs Daylight Savings Time and speaks to the lobby group, Take Back The Clocks. There's no denying that hedgehogs are super cute but the issue is, they're super… Read more Audio