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3:52 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Read more Video, Audio

3:48 PM.Pacemakers and cremation, electric toothbrushes and where do you put a tiny house? Read more Audio

5:00 PM.AUT chemistry professor Allan Blackman and investigative journalist Paula Penfold are both in the Auckland studio for the Panel. Read more

4:57 PM.Dancing With the Stars viewers who tried to vote for David Seymour say say a technical glitch indicated their support for him last night was not counted, because of a technical glitch. Audio

4:55 PM.Broken street lights in parts of Wellington aren't being fixed for weeks or even months. There are even spells of darkness in Manners St one of the capital's busiest. Audio

4:47 PM.RNZ's Emile Donovan casts an eye over what's happening in the Football World Cup. Including thoughts on Portugal, Spain and women commentators. Audio

4:46 PM.One the North America's most successful pioneer-era writers has had her name taken off a book award that bore her name. Laura Ingalls Wilder's writing is laced with racism. Should her name be taken… Read more Audio

4:44 PM.The Prime Minister has done a couple of pieces of art for charity. She has a theme - her "to do" list. Beside those words she's painted "everything". Is this true artistsic expression? Audio

4:37 PM.What the Panelists Catherine Robertson and Peter Fa'afiu want to talk about. Audio

4:33 PM.Would you just like everyone to shut up sometimes? Blabbing during movies, commenting during music performances, nattering in the middle of a play. Apparently people don't like being "shhhhh'ed". So… Read more Audio

4:22 PM.The founder of Dunedin's Cannabis Museum Abe Gray is gathering some influential names to get a conversation about legalising cannabis. Just how does he imagine that would look like in New Zealand… Read more Audio

4:20 PM.After a real shocker singing the New Zealand anthem at the rugby league in Denver American woman Crystal Collins was given a second chance. What do you think of this rendition she sang for a radio… Read more Audio

4:17 PM.The owner of Cromwell-based trucking company Summerland Express Freight says many drivers want long working hours. Some work up to seventy hours a week. There have been a series of accidents that… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.There's been not even a 1 per cent uptake on the government's offer of zero-fees for first year tertiary students. Did they get it entirely wrong or are their other reasons the offer hasn't been… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Would you just like everyone to shut up sometimes? Blabbing during movies, commenting during music performances, nattering in the middle of a play. Apparently people don't like being "shhhhh'ed". So… Read more Audio

4:03 PM.There's been not even a 1 per cent uptake on the government's offer of zero-fees for first year tertiary students. Did they get it entirely wrong or are their other reasons the offer hasn't been… Read more Audio

3:53 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:48 PM.Who actually gets the baby gifts sent to the PM from businesses?

Are roads designed and built with acoustics in mind?

Why is a cupboard called a cup-board? Audio

5:00 PM.Business consultant Peter Fa'afiu is in Auckland and author Catherine Robertson joins The Panel from Wellington.

How's the first-year zero-fees policy going for tertiary providers other than… Read more

4:58 PM.We've had home-grown singers massacre the anthem at Rugby League internationals, it seems to be peculiar to Rugby League, but then up stepped Crystal Collins. Audio

4:53 PM.The photo that tugged at the heartstrings of the World was fake. Time magazine was wrong when it said the girl confronting Donald Trump on its cover, little Yanela Sanchez, was carried away screaming… Read more Audio

4:43 PM.Feeling a bit anxious while driving is a good thing and road safety advocate Clive Mathew-Wilson says while it's ok for our nerves to be a bit frayed the same can't be said about the state of the… Read more Audio

4:36 PM.What the Panelists Emma Espiner and Dean Hall want to talk about. Audio

4:32 PM.An organiser of a Quidditch tournament in the US thinks movie company Warner Bros has been taken over by the Harry Potter villain Voldemorte. The company is cracking down on fan festivals. The… Read more Audio

4:21 PM.The government is opening the door of investment to allow the manufacture of pre-fabricated buildings to help ease the housing crisis. Roger Levie of the Home Owners and Buyers Association of New… Read more Audio