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11:45 AM.Urban issues correspondent Bill McKay looks at the two-decade old concept of the Smart City - where data and digital systems help things run more efficiently, like traffic, for example. Could AI make… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Herbs have so many varied uses, eaten raw or cooked into dishes as well as being used in remedies and cleaning products. Jane Wrigglesworth writes for numerous publications including NZ Gardener and… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Bernie and Liam join Kathryn to talk about the shock defection of Meka Waitiri to Te Pati Maori - where does this leave Labour and the waka-jumping legislation? How does that improve the Maori Party's… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.The saga of the Founders Theatre continues, with an absolute last chance to convince Hamilton city council to not demolish the theatre coming up next week. This has dragged on for years now with a… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Robert Kelly reviews Unscripted by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, published by Penguin Random House Read more Audio

10:05 AM.The story of lost gold and a ghost town kept alive by one man's photography is told in a new doco Jos - The Forgotten Photographer Who Saved A Town. Waiutua is a dot of a place on the West Coast south… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.Our Africa Correspondent Debora Patta joins us now from Johannesburg And we start with what's happening in Sudan and the recent daring rescue mission by US special forces to evacuate American… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Seventy-five percent of annual global greenhouse emissions come from the built environment - that's buildings, construction and infrastructure. On their own, buildings contribute 37 percent… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Health Minister Ayesha speaks with Kathryn Ryan about the state of the health system. Last week the Minister's office released a plan outlining how New Zealand's GPs and hospitals will cope with what… Read more Audio

11:34 AM.Sam Ackerman looks into the ways being mooted to refresh the competition, the former All Black who could come back to haunt NZ and why is Team New Zealand working with the most controversial… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Dunedin band Cloudboy's miraculous 2001 debut album Down At The End Of The Garden has just been issued on vinyl for the first time. We'll hear two tracks from that today, alongside a song from the… Read more Audio

10:50 AM.Tess has the latest on the Invercargill City Council shambles with a councillor and former stadium manager suggesting an 18-year-old employee would enjoy jelly wrestling naked. Nigel Skelt's comments… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Carole Beu from The Women's Bookshop in Ponsonby reviews How To Get Fired by Evana Belich, published by Penguin. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.The Transport Accident Investigation Commission's final preliminary report shows that KiwiRail failed to follow manufacturers advice about a critical joint in its cooling system on the interislander… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.She's one of New Zealand's greatest writers - yet at the end of her life, Katherine Mansfield was buried in a pauper's grave in France. Her remains were reinterred six years later in a tomb that for… Read more Audio

9:47 AM.Koroi discusses Immigration NZ's explanation of use of dawn raid tactics. French Polynesia is set for a pro-independence president, and Niue's general election results with six women MPs voted in, the… Read more Audio

9:32 AM.Writers will have a new place to meet and work in the creative heart of the capital later this month. There will be a seat at the table whether there's a book of poetry in the making, a novel, or a… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.A fault with KiwiRail's overhead power lines has caused commuter chaos across Auckland this morning, with train services cancelled across the city. The fault at Grafton resulted in power being… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.The results of a newly published study link young people's mental health with where they grow up. Data from nearly a million young Kiwis demonstrates the effect environment has on youth mental health… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Film and TV reviewer Tamar Munch joins Kathryn to talk about Pathfinders (TVNZ), a local series that looks at Maori leaders who were raised through the challenging years where te reo Maori was… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Parents determined to protect their children from life's everyday challenges can inadvertently stifle their emotional development, says clinical psychologist and mother of two Jacqui Maguire. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Tech correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to look at the merger of two of Alphabet's big AI teams: Google Brain and DeepMind. Can both put past differences aside to work well together? It comes as… Read more Audio

10:46 AM.There's a three stage bypass road currently being built in Queenstown, but Peter says it is far from clear what the destination of the bypass is. And as the local accommodation crisis goes from bad to… Read more Audio