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10:05 AM.The remarkable world of nature's hidden sounds and the way species communicate are being revealed by scientists using digital bioacoustics. Canadian scientist, Professor Karen Bakker, is an author and… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Australia correspondent Chris Niesche joins Kathryn to look at the "financial penalty" PwC Australia could face over a scandal in which it used confidential tax information to secure more business… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.A breakthrough cancer treatment developed in here New Zealand which uses a patient's own immune system to find and destroys the disease is a step closer to market. Kathryn talks to Dr Rob Weinkove the… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Seven years after it launched Operation Respect to stamp out bad conduct in the Defence Force, a new independent audit has found nearly a quarter of serving young women experienced "inappropriate… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Joe talks about New Zealand Rugby signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Japan Rugby, and where things are at with Super Rugby. Also the ANZ Netball premiership is down to the last round, and in… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Feeding the world has always been a challenge - but doing it amid a changing climate is only going to get more difficult. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates we'll need to produce 70… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Business commentator Nikki Mandow joins Kathryn to talk about the issue with greenhouse gas emissions from our buildings, be they operational (emissions from running the building) to embodied (what… Read more Audio

10:50 AM.It's a big day for the Gore District Council with a meeting this afternoon to vote on a no confidence in its 24-year-old mayor Ben Bell. The Mayor and the council's chief executive, Stephen Parry… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.A fire engineer, who has studied short term residential accomodation, says they are four times riskier than houses.Dr Geoff Thomas's 2014 national study looked into housing similar to the 92 room… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Harry Ricketts reviews Katherine Mansfield's Europe: Station to Station by Redmer Yska, published by Otago University Press Read more Audio

10:05 AM.The information age has altered our relationship with knowledge; everything we could ever want to know is now instantly searchable through a small device that fits in our pocket. So what does that… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.In the US, the debt limit crisis looms, and the immigration crisis threatens to derail President Joe Biden's bid for second term. More Donald Trump rivals emerge in the Republican Party but his… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Weather-related events have taken a massive toll on any number of people around the country this year. Many businesses have faced massive - and sometimes repeat - clean-ups, disruption to operations… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Five months into 2023 and the year has posed more than its fair share of environmentally-fuelled mental health challenges - with the fallout from January's floods in Auckland, Cyclone Gabrielle and… Read more Audio

9:15 AM.Six people are thought to have died in a blaze at a Wellington Hostel over night, and many residents are missing. Police have not yet confirmed the number of fatalites but estimate fewer than 10… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The Ministry of Education has hired just fewer than seven attendance officers as part of its new centralised Attendance Service, set up to tackle record low school attendance. $74 million has been… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Off the beaten track with geologist Bruce Hayward. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Young Maori chefs Joshua Hunter and Mitchell Tierney have turned the capital's well known inner city eatery, Havana Bar and cafe into a wharekai as part of Wellington on a Plate. Josh, who is Ngati… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Political commentators Lamia Imam and Brigitte Morten join Kathryn to talk about the latest political poll, which shows the two main parties neck and neck. How important are the minor parties this… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Simon talks to Kathryn about a range of issues affecting Tamaki Makaurau, including the effect of wild weather on parts of the city prone to flooding and the effect on public transport. The Auckland… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Nicky Walker reviews The Fire and the Rose by Robyn Cadwallader, published by HarperCollins Audio

10:05 AM.Two-hundred and forty acres of native forest in the Wairarapa serve as an outdoor school. Kindergarten, day care and school children come to New Forest School in Masterton for a day. Here, kids can be… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney joins Kathryn to talk about the close eye being kept on Turkey as President Erdogan faces a tough election fight, Volodymyr Zelensky is in Paris for talks with… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Katherine Trebeck is a political economist, writer and advocate for economic system change. She is the co-founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, an international collaborative organisation focused… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.New research has found much harm was caused to families of end of life patients and the clinicians caring for them. The study published in the BMJ Quality and Safety - was led by University of… Read more Audio