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4:50 PM.The Panel discusses a New York Times piece making the case against tickling.  Read more Audio

4:42 PM.The Panel speaks to Al Jazeera journalist Elizabeth Puranam about India's rising number of Covid-19  cases. Read more Audio

4:34 PM.The government is to push up the municipal waste levy six fold by 2025.  Read more Audio

4:33 PM.Today in music history: The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in the US in 1962. Read more Audio

4:26 PM.Ski-fields have seen a flurry of excitement with skiers keen to hit the slopes during the school holidays.  Read more Audio

4:20 PM.New Zealanders are being urged to use the contact tracer app as an economist warns people to enjoy the freedoms of level one because they may not last.  Read more Audio

4:08 PM.Dr Lara Greaves from Auckland University joins The Panel to discuss today's developments. Read more Audio

3:55 PM.Panellists Verity Johnson and Peter Elliot share what they have been thinking about. Audio

3:50 PM.We've been calculating our dog's human ages all wrong. Read more Audio

4:40 PM.The state of Florida is grappling with Covid-19, with cases reaching record numbers. Journalist David Neal from the Miami Herald joins The Panel to discuss. Read more Audio

4:34 PM.The Panel discusses a new police initiative to introduce a new fleet of 24 unmarked cars to deter risky drivers. Read more Audio

4:32 PM.Today in music history: lead singer and lyricist of the post-punk band Joy Division Ian Curtis was born in 1956. Read more Audio

4:26 PM.There is talk under way of an 'Air Bridge' between New Zealand and the Cook Islands. Read more Audio

4:17 PM.A new professional rugby union team Kanaloa Hawaii has had its bid to join the America's Major League Rugby confirmed and is in talks with NZ Rugby to join a revamped Super Rugby competition. Read more Audio

4:08 PM.Professor of Public Policy at AUT Dame Marilyn Waring, and former National MP, joins the Panel to discuss National's new leadership team. Read more Audio

3:55 PM.Panellists Rajorshi Chakraborti and Victoria Stewart share what they have been thinking about. Read more Audio

3:50 PM.Amelia Langford discusses the new online craze of people sharing videos of what appears to be ordinary, inedible objects that turn out to be elaborately-constructed cakes. Read more Audio

4:55 PM.A predicted "tsunami" of cheap frozen fries has come to pass. The Panel is joined by Chris Claridge from Potatoes New Zealand. Read more Audio

4:50 PM.The Panel discusses the pros and cons of credit cards after a Waiarapa family were denied entry to a Hawke's Bay hotel due to only having a debit card. Read more Audio

4:46 PM.There's been another blow to the tourism sector with the Scenic Hotels chain signalling it may resort to "mothballing" all of its hotels on the West Coast.  Read more Audio