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Topics - teachers, nurses and retail staff are the UK's unhappiest workers, reports the Independent. Mainly because of money. The generosity of New Zealanders. The well-known Ngapuhi hapu leader David… Audio

Topics: Do we live in a truly golden age of grumbling? The winning sculpture in Waiheke Islands sculpture competition has been vandalised. The matter of flying our flags at half-mast to mark the death… Audio

topics - how good is your nose? How mindful are you of smells? The powers of optimism. Reducing exposure to defeated, un constructive negative people. Increasing time with achieves who love life… Audio

Topics - Good friends make you healthier physically and mentally, says a study from Concordia University in Canada. The Swiss are voting on a universal income. The study out recently finding that… Audio

Topics - the Sun newspaper is not ditching its page 3 girls after all it has announced this afternoon, and columnists around the world have been applauding prematurely. On the eve of the Cricket World… Audio

The issue of freedom camping again as we celebrate the big hot summer. Fences put around the berms near the Wellington Airport to stop people parking on the verges. There's been mixed reaction to the… Audio

Topics - Our increasing yearning for the past in our artifacts, are we headed in the wrong direction with the Christchurch rebuild? A Mr Phil Virtue-Paul has been defending the noise he makes to the… Audio

Topics - Katy Perry told Billboard magazine that she wants to be a firework, living or dead. She wants her ashes put into a skyrocket when she goes, to be sent out over the ocean. The Pope has waded… Audio

Todd Niall looks at the upcoming debate over how to fund Auckland's transport needs. Audio

Part two of The Panel Christmas Eve Special, recorded before a live audience at the Tyler Street garage on the Auckland waterfront. Audio

Topics - this is a time of year when serenity should reign, but of course it doesn't, everyone's dead stressed, so many of us don't feel like smiling. There's been a ground-breaking - hopefully not… Audio

Topics - christmas no.1s ain't what they used to be; they're mainly X-Factor winners these days, aside from "Wherever You Are" by the Military Wives a few years ago. Star Trek, the original Star… Audio

Topic 1: Rena Topic 2: Dunedin Topic 3: Russia Audio

Topic 1: The Sydney siege Topic 2: Self defence Topic 3: Taxi Audio

Topics - do we laugh or shake our heads at this story...a police officer described a motorist as "Irish" after the man tying his kayak sideways instead of lengthwise along his car roof. Police said it… Audio

Should we sing Christmas Carols before Christmas Eve? A Marlborough farming couple have been fined $40,000 for not wearing helmets while riding their quad bikes. A call for a ban on alcohol… Audio

Topics - when faced with auditory confusion we are more likely to select a word or phrase that we're familiar with, a phenomenon known as Zipf's law. Our brains are great creators of logical meaning… Audio

Topics - these days it's cheap smartphones and even deals on tyres, touted on TV as the ideal Christmas gift. There's been a war against the trivialisation of Christmas for a hundred years. That's… Audio

Topics - the economic cost of social inequality in NZ has been highlighted again. Where do you think all the Earth's water came from? A New Zealander is being detained in Myanmar after using an image… Audio

Scientists are searching for a quantum theory of the universe that brings together Einstein's general theory of relativity - which denies the existence of a unique time - and quantum mechanics - which… Audio

Topics - the way you walk can change your mood. This is in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. New research suggests that if we walk purposefully our mood is elevated, if we… Audio

Topics - the number of homes in the United Kingdom with a television in has fallen for the first time since television was invented and made comercially available. Troubled waters in Wanaka… Audio

Topics - in the UK, where Christmas Number One songs are a national institution, The Radio Times asked readers to nominate their favourite of all time. 1969's Two Little Boys was removed from the… Audio

The Crown is being urged to appeal against jail terms of less than six years imposed on two men who wrongly accused a Christchurch father of being a paedophile, poured petrol over him, and burned him… Audio

Topics - the latest Nielsen quarterly survey published overnight shows the average time a day spent watching live TV fell 12 minutes in the latest quarter to four hours and 32 minutes. That's 141… Audio

Topics - well the magazines have been very busy displaying the bodies of famous women in recent times. Kim Kardashian tried to "break the internet" by posing nude for Paper magazine. Last week British… Audio

Topics - last names are especially important if you want to better yourself in life. We discussed this topic once last year when it emerged that people with elite surnames tend to stay rich through… Audio

Topics - Children's Commissioner Russell Wills says there's no actual plan to combat poverty. He's released his second annual Child Poverty Monitor. The Families Commission is now called the Social… Audio

Topics - the Sydney Morning Herald's just run a piece about the ongoing demise of traditional broadcasters like the ABC, and Channels 7,9 and 10 in Australia. Once they were printing money, now they… Audio

The Martin Jetpack has been on the drawing board for a few years. Auckland Council has apologised after hundreds of council carpark holders were sent the private details of hundreds of other clients. Audio