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A history in the surf
9:20 AM.Surfing has been a central part of the culture of Pacific countries for hundreds of years, and Ian Surgeson loves surfing so much he's written a book about it - An Empty Ocean Road, A Surfing History… Read more Audio
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Galapagos Iguana
9:05 AM.New Zealand has had a significant role to play in the return of land iguana to one of the Galapagos Islands almost 200 years since they were wiped out by introduced predators. Massey University's had… Read more Audio
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1000 Doors
11:40 AM.Imagine not knowing what or who was behind not just the door in front of you...but hundreds of other doors that lie between you and escape. A labyrinth of doors is being put in place in Auckland's CBD… Read more Audio
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The evolution of the Edmonds Cookbook
11:35 AM.Contrary to popular belief, New Zealand's iconic Edmonds Cookbook has had many recipes come and go since its first edition in 1908. Writer and cook Alexa Johnston edited the most recent (2016)… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Slow TV comes to NZ
11:30 AM.'Slow television' has been slow getting to New Zealand but it's soon to arrive in the form of Go South – a Prime TV programme taking viewers on a 12-hour journey from Auckland to Milford Sound. Read more Video, Audio
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A trip to the Chathams
11:05 AM.Our travel feature now escorts us to the Chatham Islands. Wellingtonian Erin Daldry headed there with geologist Hamish Campbell and scientist Chris Adams one on of the two trips they take each year to… Read more Audio, Gallery
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We Can Work It Out: The best and worst of The Beatles
10:30 AM.Now there's not much that's more subjective than taste in music. But is there a way to place an objective lens on the comparative merits of a band's efforts? RNZ Music's Nick Bollinger is on a writing… Read more Audio
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Joseph Johnson
10:20 AM.A series of "frightening and breathtaking" photographs of the Port Hills Fires in February last year, won Joseph Johnson the Best News Photography Voyager Media Awards last year. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Lisa Maclaren
10:05 AM.Lisa MacLaren, is a PhD at the joint centre for disaster research, and she's also the national convenor of Generation Zero. Read more Audio
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Taranaki in 2019
9:45 AM.Our regional check in series continues today with RNZ Taranaki correspondent Robin Martin. We're looking ahead to 2019 and what issues the region faces in this local government election year. Read more Audio
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LANDSAR: Peter Zimmer
9:35 AM.Peter Zimmer has spent many hundreds of hours in the New Zealand mountains in severe weather conditions, helping to search for lost and injured climbers. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Vanuatu Military Museum
9:20 AM.A New Zealander is helping Vanuatu to realise an ambitious project to build a museum about the Second World War in the South Pacific. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Whither the weather?
9:10 AM.The government shutdown in the United States is now stretching into its fourth week with no end in sight. It has big implications for things like national security and the country's scientists. Read more Audio
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Peter Bland: the 84 year old poet embracing social media
11:50 AM.After Peter Bland's daughter "sort of bullied him into it," the acclaimed British-NZ poet and actor started recording Facebook videos. Now he enjoys both the intimacy of reading to the camera – and… Read more Audio
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Summer Success Academy
11:30 AM.A First Generation Tertiary Student programme for students who are the first in their family to progress beyond secondary education, is part of a new academy aimed at helping some of this year's… Read more Audio
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Catherine Shields
11:20 AM.Over the summer we're talking to young leaders in their field. Today it's the turn of Sir Peter Blake Trust ambassador Emily Gordon who describes herself as an atmospheric physics nerd who has a… Read more Audio
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Youth Observatory
11:20 AM.Over the summer we're talking to young leaders in their field. Today it's the turn of Sir Peter Blake Trust ambassador Emily Gordon who describes herself as an atmospheric physics nerd who has a… Read more Audio
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Spoken word?
10:40 AM.When is it poetry and is it music? Like many types of art if you try and pick apart the minutiae of a form you can end up killing it, but it is an interesting dilemma. Read more Audio
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Upcycling furniture
10:30 AM.If you have a piece of furniture that's seen better days, you have several options. One is to upcycle, to stamp your own mark on it, rather than throwing it out. Read more Audio
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NZ history in 100 objects
10:20 AM.We continue our series helping historian Jock Phillips with his project exploring New Zealand history through objects. Today we look at pre-colonial design, braile technology and a humble cookbook. Read more Audio
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Citizen Science
10:08 AM.Dr Cynthia Winkworth works in the zoology department at Otago University, and she's just embarked on a project, along with some local schools, to study how an unusual wee fellow called the peripatus… Read more Audio
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Fiordland in 2019
9:50 AM.We turn our attention to Fiordland now for today's regional cross and our correspondent is Te Anau volunteer fire brigade chief fire officer Graeme "Possum" Moffat. Read more Audio
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Wandersearch
9:35 AM.WanderSearch is a branch of Land Search and Rescue that offers tracking devices for people who have health conditions that mean they may head off without being able to find their way home. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Data security in 2019
9:20 AM.It seemed data security was in the news every other day in 2018. Whether it was cyber-bullying, internet fraud, or scandals in which enormous multinational social media networks were found to be… Read more Audio
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Scott Macindoe: NZ's fisheries management system 'puts the fox in charge of the henhouse'
9:05 AM.A "slow-motion trainwreck" is how Scott Macindoe describes the quota management system (QMS) introduced 32 years ago to guide the sustainable use of New Zealand's fisheries. Macindoe is a fisherman… Read more Video, Audio