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Supervolcano unrest under Lake Taupo
11:43 AM.About 1800 years ago a powerful super-eruption of the Taupo volcano resulted in a plume of ash that coated lakeside areas in tens of metres of pumice and ash and a lava flow that spread up to 90… Read more Audio
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Rachel Ward's farm: from climate despair to hope
11:06 AM.During Australia's "Black Summer" of 2019-20 a bush fire nearly destroyed the farm where actress Rachel Ward and her actor husband Bryan Brown had been raising cattle for 33 years. This head-on… Read more Video, Audio
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The lives and times of musician Tim Finn
10:05 AM.New Zealand musician Tim Finn hasn't toured in a decade but something "clicked" when he played a small afternoon show in Sydney recently. This September, the Split Enz co-founder will perform some of… Read more Video, Audio
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Alison Ballance: the rediscovery and recovery of the takahe
9:40 AM.From being assumed extinct, to a healthy population of over 500 birds, the resurrection of the takahe is an incredible story. Read more Audio
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Sam Sachdeva: navigating New Zealand's relationship with China
8:42 AM.Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (who turns 100 the day we air) is talking about the potential for war between the United States and China. Increasingly, such talk about our biggest… Read more Audio
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Prof. Simon Chapman: What the history of smoking should warn us about vaping
8:12 AM.When smoking first became popular it was heavily marketed as being cool. We were even told it was healthy. The results have not been so good. Simon Chapman, an Emeritus Professor at University of… Read more Audio
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Dr Jonathan Howard: why US doctors spread Covid disinformation
3:00 PM.Dr Jonathan Howard says over 800,000 Americans would be alive today if the US had taken New Zealand's Covid approach. Read more Audio
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Danyl McLauchlan: Hannah Arendt and the loneliness of modernity
11:40 AM.Scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week, the life and work of influential twentieth century philosopher Hannah Arendt, whose books… Read more Audio
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Robert Bartholomew: what caused Havana Syndrome
11:05 AM.Between 2016 and 2018, dozens of North American diplomats stationed in Havana, Cuba, reported an array of health complaints which coincided with hearing strange sounds. Read more Audio
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Playing favourites: Stuart McKenzie & Miranda Harcourt
10:05 AM.Husband and wife duo Dame Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie have become central to the film and theatre world. It's all in the family: while Miranda's mother Kate is one of Aotearoa's most… Read more Audio
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Falconer Noel Hyde: rescuing karearea, ruru and barn owls
9:35 AM.Noel Hyde is one of New Zealand's most respected wildlife taxidermists, but it's with live birds as a falconer he's now making his mark, helping save karearea, ruru and barn owls. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Doron Semu: making siapo and a space for queer Pasifika youth
9:10 AM.Auckland nurse Doron Semu is using a traditional Sāmoan art form to bring together LGBTQ+ Pasifika youth. In his mid-20s, feeling disconnected from his Sāmoan heritage, Doron learnt how to make the… Read more Video, Audio
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Catherine Chidgey: Ockham winner's new novel 'Pet'
8:40 AM.Ocham winner Chidgey has a new novel Pet, set in New Zealand in 1984 and 2014, which follows a 'teacher's pet', wrestling with her admiration for that teacher. Read more Audio
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Playing Favourites with Russell Brown
11:05 AM.In the early 1980s journalist Russell Brown jumped ship from his boring newsroom job to become deputy editor of Rip It Up, a music magazine capturing and feeding a thriving urban culture Brown was… Read more Audio
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David Lawrence: binge-reading Shakespeare’s plays in order
10:40 AM.Known for his contemporary takes on Shakespeare, Aotearoa theatre director and scholar David Lawrence believes the bard's intentions have been long compromised by being organised into the genres of… Read more Audio
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David Good: the remarkable gut life of the Yanomami people
10:06 AM.The Yanomami people of the Amazon rainforest are one of the last Indigenous groups living as hunter-gatherers and small-scale farmers. They also have the most diverse gut microbiome of any community… Read more Audio
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Sameena Zehra: immigration is a serious laughing matter
9:42 AM.From performing on street corners in India to the National Theatre in London, comedian, actor, writer, and blues singer Sameena Zehra has spent her life telling stories and, in her own words, holding… Read more Audio
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Liv Sisson: Aotearoa’s fascinating and freaky fungi
9:07 AM.Aotearoa's fungi are fascinating, freaky and fantastical according to Otautahi based forager and food writer Liv Sisson. We have 22,000 species, including one that hunts bugs, a lichen named after… Read more Audio
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Mstyslav Chernov: Pulitzer prize winner on Mariupol atrocities
8:14 AM.Mstyslav Chernov is part of a small team of Associated Press Ukrainian journalists who this week won a Pulitzer Prize for their fearless reporting from Mariupol last year. For nearly three weeks they… Read more Audio
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Playing Favourites with Liz Mellish
11:06 AM.From Te Atiawa, Liz Mellish has had a seminal influence on the visibility and rights of mana whenua and Maori heritage in contemporary Te-Whanganui-a-Tara. Read more Audio
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Megan Dunn: the kinky and the kooky lurking in public art
10:45 AM.Author and art writer Megan Dunn joins Kim to talk about two current shows with very different approaches to displaying public art collections. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Jonathan Kennedy: how germs made history
10:05 AM.In his new book Pathogenesis Dr Jonathan Kennedy offers a radical new frame to view human history. He argues that infectious diseases have been a decisive force in shaping humanity, from the… Read more Audio