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4:08 PM.Is the idea of completely eradicating the cattle disease mycoplasma bovis, as the PM plans to attempt, a silly pipe dream? Keith Woodford of Agrifood Systems says the bacterial infection has always… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Spare a thought for poor stressed out journalists. According to a British neuroscientist Tara Swart they drink too much, are bad a managing emotions, aren't very good at suppressing bias, or solving… Read more Audio

4:03 PM.Is the idea of completely eradicating the cattle disease mycoplasma bovis, as the PM plans to attempt, a silly pipe dream? Keith Woodford of Agrifood Systems says the bacterial infection has always… Read more Audio

3:51 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio

3:47 PM.Wilding pines, wind speeds and wind farms and books not living up to the hype, Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Criminal barrister Jonathan Krebs is in our Napier studio and public affairs consultant Josie Pagani joins us from Wellington.

4:55 PM.A community in Santa Fe is the latest to be ripped apart by a shooting at a school. Teenagers are starting to think that these shootings are inevitable while the NRA blames drugs and pychological… Read more Audio

4:48 PM.Single-use plastic bags are now officially a thing of the past at Countdown supermarkets. Kiri Hannifin from the supermarket company explains how the change is working in practical terms and if they… Read more Audio

4:39 PM.Alexia Russell wants to know whatever happened to protest music and what Stephen Franks learns from eavesdropping. Read more Audio

4:35 PM.Classical music may just soothe the savage beast.There are stories of classical music helping to break up street fights and repelling unsavoury types from parks and train stations. Would you choose… Read more Audio

4:26 PM.The chair of the Omarama Residents and Ratepayers Association says the Otago town is reaching crisis point. It's a victim of its own tourism popularity with people attracted by cycle trails and… Read more Audio

4:19 PM.Are those in Palmerston North who voted against Maori wards "stick in the mud" people as the city's mayor Tony Bonne says? Palmerston North City councillor Aleisha Rutherford is disappointed by the… Read more Audio

4:14 PM.The Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has no intention of turning Waikato's Waikeria Prison into a mega-prison of 2500 beds. So how do we deal with a burgeoning prison population, while admitting that… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.What Alexia Russell and Stephen Franks made of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Big Day. Was the dress boring? Was Camilla's hat really a satellite dish picking up Eastenders for her? How about the… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Classical music may just soothe the savage beast.There are stories of classical music helping to break up street fights and repelling unsavoury types from parks and train stations. Would you choose… Read more Audio

4:03 PM.What Alexia Russell and Stephen Franks made of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Big Day. Was the dress boring? Was Camilla's hat really a satellite dish picking up Eastenders for her? How about the… Read more Audio

3:49 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Read more Video, Audio

3:47 PM.Opossums, satellites and the coldest hour. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Journalist Alexia Russell is in Auckland and former ACT MP and lawyer Stephen Franks  is in Wellington. Read more

4:57 PM.A day out from the Royal Wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry the panelists discuss the appeal of the wedding and all its fanfare, plus we hear a snippet from the cellist who will perform at the… Read more Audio

4:48 PM.The ICC is considering scrapping the traditional coin toss from test cricket. Instead the organisation is considering giving the visiting side the opportunity to pick whether to bay or bowl first.  Read more Audio

4:43 PM.There is word the government has an offer form an Australian company to build modular houses, as a way to tackle the housing shortage.  Read more Audio

4:34 PM.A new study out of the Netherlands suggests exercise is only beneficial when done outside your job. Despite manual labourers being physically active all day, it may not help them, in fact it could… Read more Audio