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10:30 AM.How does a song get made? How do you actually go about putting it together? What is "mixing"?  Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Back in 1986, close to 50,000 Aucklanders jostled for the opportunity to have their eardrums blown out by a British Airways Concorde. The supersonic jet made a special trip to Auckland while circling… Read more Video, Audio

9:55 AM.Hemi Kelly teaches us some useful te reo Māori phrases you can use in your day-to-day life.  Read more Audio

9:40 AM. Today we go to the Wairarapa to talk to Wairarapa Times Age reporter Gianina Schwaneke Read more Audio

9:19 AM.Striking transport workers in France have entered their 29th day of industrial action - making it the longest rail workers' strike in more than 50 years. Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Lebanon is deemed unlikely to extradite the runaway auto tycoon back to Japan.  Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Three times a week, we'll check in with Hemi Kelly, to learn some useful te reo Māori phrases you can use in your day-to-day life. Hemi's a lecturer in Te Ara Poutama - the Faculty of Maori &amp… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Time for on the road - where we invite on an illustrious New Zealander to take us on their favourite road trip, talk a bit about their year in review, and play a few tunes for a long, languid trip in… Read more Audio

10:52 AM.Sometimes it can feel like life is just one big juggling act, and for Zane Jarvie that's definitely the case. Read more Video, Audio

10:07 AM.Time to talk food - and the seemingly inexorable threat that climate change poses to food production and availability, and even the selection of fruits and veges in your local grocer's. Julian Heyes… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Now continuing on with our regional correspondent series and we cross live to Fiordland to speak to Possum Moffat - who is the chief fire office in Te Anau. Read more Audio

9:22 AM.And closer to home - the scale of the Australian fires was felt across the country last night, especially in Christchurch, as the smell of burning wood wafted across the tasman. In Wellington, many… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.The fires in Australia continue, and chilling images and video show the scale of the destruction in all of the states and territories. At least eight people have died since Monday, and seven are… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Corin Dann joined Susie Ferguson as a Morning Report co-host in May last year. The Wellington journalist talks to Emile Donovan about his post-work 'surf and siesta' routine, his favourite camping… Read more Video, Audio

10:07 AM.It's 20 years since there was widespread panic that the Y2K bug might obliterate the world as we know it. Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Correspondent Glenda Tuaine fills us in on a big year of news in the islands including same sex relationships law reform and an ongoing debate about Chlorination. Read more Audio

9:32 AM.Bob Norling has been awarded the Queen's Service Medal for services to railway heritage and the community.  Read more Audio

9:15 AM.Sergeant Lehi Hohaia has worked for the New Zealand Police for 40 years, providing an important link between the Police and the Māori community in Rotorua.  Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Expert weaver Ranui Ngarimu has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit For services to Māori art and culture, particularly weaving. Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Former Wellington College principal Roger Moses has been made a member of the New Zealand Order of merit for services to education. Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Dr Anna Crighton has been a fierce campaigner for the preservation of historic buildings in Aotearoa for most of her professional career, and today her services have been recognised with a damehood. 

11:55 AM.Three times a week, we'll check in with Hēmi Kelly, to learn some useful te reo Māori phrases you can use in your day-to-day life.  Read more Audio

11:04 AM.We get a prominent New Zealander in to chat about their favourite ever road trip, reflect a bit on the year just gone, and play us a few of their essential road trip tunes. Read more Audio

10:27 AM.Music critic Waveney Russ joins us to discuss her picks of the tunes released during December. Read more Video, Audio