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Recent items from Summer Times
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Tiritiri Matangi - past achievements and future ambitions
10:20 AM.It's nearly 50 years since work started on restoring the flora and fauna of Tiritiri Matangi Island in the Hauraki Gulf. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Do androids dream of electric regulation?
10:06 AM.Technology journalist Peter Griffin gives us the rundown on what he think 2019 will bring in the world of tech. Read more Audio
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Lakeside in 2019
9:48 AM.Peter Newport is a former RNZ journalist, and now managing director of the online newspaper Crux, which serves the Queenstown / Wanaka areas. He sees 2019 as a year of great change in the central… Read more Audio
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Volunteers - Reham Habid and Red Cross
9:37 AM.Having seen Red Cross volunteers tending to war-torn families living in Palestine's Gaza Strip when she was growing up there, 19-year-old Reham Abu Habid is determined to go back one day representing… Read more Audio
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NY Honours - Dame Diana Crossan
9:30 AM.One of our brand new Dames, Diana Crossan, spent 10 years as Retirement Commissioner helping New Zealanders prepare for their post-work lives. Read more Audio
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NY Honours - Vaine Areora
9:20 AM.Mrs Vaine Areora has been donating her time to the Cook Islands Community in New Zealand for more than 60 years - she joined the Cook Island Sports Association back when Marilyn Monroe was the world's… Read more Audio
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NY Honours - Roly Crichton
9:13 AM.For his 20 years coaching disabled athletes, including superstar Paralympian Sophie Pascoe, Roly Crichton has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. The honour also recognises his own… Read more Audio
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NY Honours - Sir Tim Shadbolt
9:07 AM.Tim Shadbolt is one of New Zealand's longest-serving and most beloved local government politicians. Read more Audio
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NY Honours - Paul Spiller
8:55 AM.Paul Spiller has overseen the development of chess in New Zealand for more than forty years. He was appointed a Chess Federation Councillor in 1977 and as a player and organiser he's been involved… Read more Audio
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NY Honours - Dr Karlo Mila
8:45 AM.Dr Karlo Mila takes her place amongst the new Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to the Pacific community and as a poet. For more than 20 years she's worked with many public… Read more Audio
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NY Honours - Ingrid Culliford
8:36 AM.Ingrid Culliford is an internationally acclaimed flautist and music teacher who has spent a lifetime spreading the joy of music. Read more Audio
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NY Honours - Jennifer Ward-Lealand
8:30 AM.For her services to theatre, film and television, including being an outspoken and determined advocate for actors' working conditions and pay, Jennifer Ward-Lealand is now a Companion of the New… Read more Audio
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NY Honours - Sir Ian Hassall
8:20 AM.Dr Ian Hassall has spent his entire career trying to help children - he contributed to the world's first major cot death study, oversaw the medical side of the Plunket Family Units, and established a… Read more Audio
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NY Honours - Dame Margaret Brimble
8:10 AM.Distinguished Professor Margaret Brimble is now Dame Margaret, in recognition of her remarkable contribution to science, specifically her research in medicinal chemistry and the development of new… Read more Audio
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T20 Cricket
11:50 AM.RNZ podcaster and cricket afficionado Zoë George joins us live from Wellington's Basin Reserve to talk a T20 double header. Read more Audio
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Vintage car clubs
11:30 AM.Diana and Keith Humphries have seen more of New Zealand than most of us, and they've done so in style, driving their vintage cars. In all weathers and over rough and smooth roads, vintage car touring… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Cricket Update
11:20 AM.Barry Guy from RNZ sports team is here now to update us on the cricket at Hagley Park. Audio
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Cargill's Castle
11:10 AM.There are only two castles in all of New Zealand, and they're both in Dunedin. Most people will be familiar with the more illustrious of them, Larnach's Castle, with its immaculately kept grounds but… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Aunty Dana's op shop
10:45 AM.Continuing our series on volunteering, we head to Aunty Dana's Op Shop in central Wellington. Set up to support transgender communities by offering a safe environment, it's also home to a fabulous… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington
10:30 AM.Emile Donovan catches up with the choristers of St Paul's Cathedral to check in on how preparations are going, and to try to figure out why a 13 year-old kid would sign up for this. Read more Audio
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Young Enterprise Award finalists
10:20 AM.Over the summer we're going to be talking to young people about their ideas, their hopes, how they feel about the world they're inheriting and their entrepreneurial business and social enterprise… Read more Audio
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Movies- Dan SLevin
10:10 AM.Film critic Dan Slevin joins us in the Wellington studio to take us through some of the newest releases. Read more Audio
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Tracy Neal talks about the new airport in Nelson
9:43 AM.Tracy Neal talks about the new airport in Nelson. Read more Audio
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Underwater Hockey in New Zealand
9:21 AM.It's a sport that New Zealand is very good at but it struggles to get attention on a national stage. Read more Audio
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Fire safety for this summer
9:18 AM.Peter Gallagher is a National Adviser Fire Risk Management and is going to give us a broad strokes run down on fire safety this summer. Read more Audio