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Book Review - Mia Gaudin: Fake Baby by Amy McDaid
10:30 AM.Book Review - Mia Gaudin: Fake Baby by Amy McDaid Audio
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Ernest Cline: pop culture and science fiction
10:00 AM.Who doesn't love a quest? Nine years ago Ready Player One by self-confessed geek Ernest Cline sent readers on a quest to solve pop culture clues hidden in a virtual realty game. The prize; ownership… Read more Audio
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Great Kiwi Album 2020: Cave Circles, Ships
9:45 AM.Great Kiwi Album 2020: Cave Circles, Ships Audio
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Telling tales of a 1949 Ranfurly Shield challenge
9:30 AM.In 1949 an historic Ranfurly Shield Challenge took place at Carisbrook stadium in Dunedin. Considered Buller's finest moment - the team unexpectedly drew with Otago six all, bolstered by the support… Read more Audio
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Lynn 'Red' Paterson - kayaking around the country
9:20 AM.When Lynn Paterson - or Red as she's also known - told people she wanted to kayak around New Zealand, they said she couldn't do it. Not only that, some said she would die. But she set off from… Read more Audio
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New Covid-19 variants cause concern
9:05 AM.Over the last month new variants of Covid-19 have been spreading further around the world. Managed isolation facilities here now hold cases of the highly-transmissible UK variant of Covid-19 and a new… Read more Audio
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Regional Round up
11:56 AM.Every day Summer Times goes to a different part of the country, and listeners must guess where our guest is. Audio
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Catherine Ross - book selections for teens
11:50 AM.Working in a school library keeps Catherine Ross in a steady supply of books It's her job to give recommendations so students at Diocesan School in Auckland to girls between the ages of 11 and 18. She… Read more Audio
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Wallace Chapman: I was always that person drinking cups of tea in the kitchen, discussing issues
11:05 AM.RNZ presenter Wallace Chapman is loving spending time with his whānau this summer, but he did come back limping from a family holiday in Waipu Cove. The reason? Three-year-old Wallace Junior's daily… Read more Video, Audio
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Susan Rogers - from Prince, to the psychology of music
10:10 AM.In a warehouse in Minneapolis back in 1983, legendary artist Prince asked his newly hired sound technician to set up to record Let's Go Crazy, a song that would become one of his greatest hits. In… Read more Audio
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Left jandals for sale on TradeMe
9:47 AM.Now to a rather unusual TradeMe auction that has created a bit of a stir online this week... The listing advertised "three left footed jandals looking for a match" and the auction closed this morning… Read more Audio
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Stalking the hills - the history of deer cullers
9:38 AM.In the 1930s deer that had been introduced into New Zealand were declared a noxious pest. Originally brought over by colonists for trophy hunting - the animals were believed to be responsible for soil… Read more Audio, Gallery
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The magic of bird song
9:21 AM.The Huka Falls tui singing what sounds a lot like the opening lines of an Annie Lennox song has been a summer hit on RNZ. Massey University professor Dianne Brunton, who specialises in the… Read more Audio
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Dr Tom Mulholland on his work in healthcare
9:10 AM.Dr Tom Mulholland has made it his mission to look after the heart health of farmers for most of the past decade. He has a 1988 retro V8 ambulance kitted out for doing blood pressure and cholesterol… Read more Audio
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Regional Round-Up
11:55 AM.Time now for our cross to somewhere around the country ... but can you guess where? Jacq Dwyer joins Jesse Mulligan. Audio
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Bookmarks: Nicola Toki
11:15 AM.Nicola Toki joins Jesse to talk about her favourite books, songs, TV shows and podcasts! Read more Audio
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Pro Trump protester storm US Capital – David Smith
11:10 AM.We cross live to Washington DC where thousands of pro Trump protesters are clashing with police outside the US Capitol building. Audio
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Pro Trump protester storm US Capital – Helen Clark
11:05 AM.We cross live to Washington DC where thousands of pro Trump protesters are clashing with police outside the US Capitol building. Audio
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Pro Trump protester storm US Capital – Tim Kuhner
10:50 AM.We cross live to Washington DC where thousands of pro Trump protesters are clashing with police outside the US Capitol building. Audio
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Pro Trump protester storm US Capital – Simon Hampton
10:45 AM.We cross live to Washington DC where thousands of pro Trump protesters are clashing with police outside the US Capitol building. Audio
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2021 - what will the headlines be?
10:37 AM.2020 was one for the history books. Covid dominated the headlines, but here in New Zealand we also had a historic general election, and the scale of our housing crisis was finally realised. Globally -… Read more Audio
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Pro Trump protester storm US Capital – Andrea Chalupa
10:15 AM.We cross live to Washington DC where thousands of pro Trump protesters are clashing with police outside the US Capitol building. Audio
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Pro Trump protester storm US Capital – Peter Field
10:05 AM.We cross live to Washington DC where thousands of pro Trump protesters are clashing with police outside the US Capitol building. Audio
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Pro Trump protester storm US Capital – Al Gillespie
9:30 AM.We cross live to Washington DC where thousands of pro Trump protesters are clashing with police outside the US Capitol building. Audio
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Restoring a rare goldmining settlement near Arrowtown
9:20 AM.About a kilometre from Arrowtown in Central Otago lies a rare goldmining settlement on the banks of the Arrow River known as Coopers Terrace Archaeological artist Jan Morrison first discovered the… Read more Audio, Gallery