Paul Brennan
The Week In Review for week ending July 25 2014
A review of the week's news... The 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow is underway, an IPCA report released this week says the police failed to properly investigate the first known attack in 1987 by… Audio
Best Of The Week for week ending July 18 2014
The Best Of The Week, including... from Mediawatch - does media bias show in what appears in the media? the host of the cult podcast Hardcore History and highland dancing from Nine To Noon, we hear… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending July 18 2014
A review of the week's news. An Australian soldier has died while climbing Aoraki Mt Cook while ten kilometres away on the opposite side of the mountain a massive and rare land slip has engulfed a… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending July 11 2014
A review of the week's news including... an injured trans Tasman kayaker who says he has no regrets about abandoning his attempt to cross the Tasman, the police say the Malaysian defence attache… Audio
Midday News for Friday 11 July 2014
130 New Zealand Post jobs are to go in Waikato and Dunedin and more bad weather closes in on Northland. Audio
The Week In Review for week ending July 4 2014
A review of the week's news including... a Malaysian newspaper reporting diplomat Muhammad Rizalman will still have diplomatic immunity when he returns to New Zealand to face sex charges, a former… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending 27 June 2014
A review of the week's news including... Community leaders calling for calm in the wake of two stabbings in South Auckland, Labour rejects claims about donations from Donghua Liu published in the… Audio
Late Edition for 26 June 2014
It's the end of the Big Day Out, Luis Suarez's shoulder bite continuing to draw flak from the world's media, and in Dateline Pacific Cook Island politicians embrace social media. Audio
Super Bananas
Director of the Centre for Tropical Crops and Bio-commodities at Queensland University of Technology, Prof. James Dale is developing vitamin-enhanced and disease-resistant banana crops, and the first… Audio
Late Edition for 25 June 2014
The Ministry of Education sends a team to a Mangere school to give support; a major change to the school dental service is leaving thousands of children without proper access to vital treatment. In… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending 20 June 2014
A review of the week's news including... The Prime Minister John Key denies there is a dirty tricks campaign against Labour over its link with a businessman, the Glenn Inquiry into family violence… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending June 13 2014
A review of the week's news including... both of the boys charged over the assault and murder of a Henderson dairy owner are denied bail, businesses are warning that further hikes in interest rates… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending June 6 2014
A review of the week's news including... ACT MP John Banks is found guilty Thursday of filing a false electoral donation return, a Christchurch mosque is at the centre of fresh claims about the past… Audio
Feature Album - The Lexicon of Love
Our feature album today is The Lexicon of Love, the 1982 debut album by British new wave band ABC. Audio
Our New Zealand A to Z - Skifields
Rob Needs: Stratford Mountain Club - Manganui - Ski Taranaki; Jo Rainey: Rainbow Sports Club, Rainbow Ski Area - Nelson Lakes; Mike Neilson: Ohau Snow Fields and Lake Ohau Lodge Audio
The Week In Review for week ending May 30 2014
A review of the week's news including... Laila Harre says she is returning to politics to lead the Internet Party because young people, in particular, have been ignored by politicians, Kim Dotcom's US… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending May 23 2014
A review of the week's news including... former New Zealand batsman Lou Vincent charged with fixing the outcome of a county cricket match by the England and Wales Cricket Board, the police watchdog… Audio