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Topics - If you like a quiet time, head for the Spanish city of Seville. Seville's silent summer, they're calling this. They've banned outdoor noise. Seville's been noisy; flamenco singers, old men… Audio

How many performing artists span the generations like Weird Al Yankovic? From his "My Balogna" in the 1970s, a parody of "My Sharona". In the 1980s "Eat It", a spoof of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and… Audio

Topics: The millionaires of Manhattan; young women playing rugby in men's teams and the world's biggest shopping mall. Audio

Topics - ties, neckties, used to be seen as binding men, and then men stopped wearing them and a whole huge conhort of middle-aged blokes are hardly seen in a tie at all now. Energy analyst Molly… Audio

Topics - The world's second-richest man, Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim, says we work too many days but not enough years. Malaysia Airlines, we heard about the share price sliding; that… Audio

The Moon landing, the blame game in Gaza, and police want a six-year ban on any new bars and bottle stores in central Auckland and other regional hot-spots. Audio

Owning a dog can turn back the hands of the clock of ageing, say Scottish scientists at St Andrew's University, Chief Coroner Judge Neil McLean on to discuss the findings of a University of Otago… Audio

Topics: A mayor in Belgium chose a Dire Straits song to try and drive off a group of Roma camping in his town in their 14 caravans. So-called "zombie" towns. A sexist slogan is being removed from a… Audio

Topics: Putting a price on friendships - how much are your friendships worth in monetary terms?; the hotline in Australia that charges you to complain about your workplace - you can pour out all your… Audio

What is the greatest guitar riff of all time? The Auckland Rugby Union is looking at shifting ITM Cup games away from Eden Park as paltry crowds hit them financially. A victim of a sex crime revealed… Audio

Pop singer Sia, ACT's Epsom candidate David Seymour is not on the party's list because he is focusing on winning the electorate in September's general election, the party says. NZ has zombie towns… Audio

Topic 5 - Dog poo bins. Topic 6 - St John's College in Hastings will have to find $24,000 in legal costs after being taken to the High Court by Lucan Battison. Topic 7 - AirNZ online booking. Audio

Topic 1 - Auckland City Mission project. Topic 2 - Auckland Council-funded conference polyamory is being held this weekend. Topic 3 - Violence. Audio

Topics - scientists are wondering how the light gets out. Maybe there is a cosmic crack in everything, because in the Journal Astrophysical Letters it is noted that there is a huge deficit of light in… Audio

Topics - Well somebody will be watching you, watching all of us more and more as we know, and maybe not the GCSB or Five Eyes, but NZI or AMP. Do we need to have binding referenda? The wealthy… Audio

Topics - bright blue bands incorporating tiny Italian glass beads are being painted on the footpaths along the entertainment strip on Bridge Street between Trafalgar and Collingwood, where the bars… Audio

Topics - a study out of Yale shows that contrary to popular belief, clever people who are scientifically literate do not change their minds about the views they hold when presented with scientific… Audio

Topics - Alone; one of the words we hate the most, apparently. This is the finding today in the big journal Science, from American varsity researchers. The discharge without conviction for the… Audio

Topics - Cabin crew on British airways could soon be seeing red if their passengers aren't comfortable on board. It's developing a blanket that can measure how much stress your experiencing in a… Audio

Topics - we pay lots for parking, it's the same wherever you go in the world in bigger cities. A sore point in Auckland recently has been people going to shows in Auckland's CBD at night asked to pay… Audio

Topics - the Foreign Minister Murray McCully says he wasn't told the Malaysian diplomat accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Wellington had invoked diplomatic immunity or had left the country. A… Audio

Topics - 'Black Dog Syndrome' is the name the world's shelter workers give to the tendency of little pups with dark fur to languish in kennels while their blonder brethren get adopted. At 84 Rolf… Audio

Topics - MIT researchers say the most persuasive word that can be uttered in meetings, to get everyone onside with your point of view, is "yeah". They don't say why "yeah" exactly, but it seems to… Audio

The UFC debuts in New Zealand, The latest Jimmy Saville revelations, Lifejackets contract award under investigation. Audio

Topics - the OECD has just unveiled a new website, with much hoopla. It's oecdregionalwellbeing.org. And what it does is compare regions within countries as the most desirable places to live and work… Audio

Topics - one of the greatest NZ songs of course from one of its greatest musical sons, and we're playing it in celebration of the news out today that we are welcoming and we are good! Vicky Hyde is on… Audio

Topics - the thing is that men and women call to each other or call among themselves using different words, apparently. According to the Center for Reading Research in America, there are words that… Audio

Topics - what do comedian Russell Brand and the movie "Train Your Dragon 2" have in common? They both ask "Why on earth can't we all live together peacefully?" Well why can't we? Comedian Russell… Audio

Topic 3 - Football. Topic 4 - Rugby. Topic 3 - Cricket. Audio

Topic 1 - Labour Party. Topic 2 - Poll. Topic 3 - Smoking. Audio