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Recent items from Summer Times
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Kaikoura's road to recovery?
9:12 AM.The road has been closed since November's seven point eight magnitude earthquake - and the transport agency says it isn't expecting it to be fully re-opened again until the end of 2017. Winston Gray… Read more Audio
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Kaikoura cheese in limbo
9:12 AM.His cheesemaker walked out this week. Now it looks like the road North from Kaikoura won't re-open completely for a year. It sounds like a really bad country ballad but it's Daniel Jenkins' reality, Read more Audio
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This Way Up
11:30 AM.Simon Morton of This Way Up enters the wonderful world of sci fi now, to meet a couple united through their shared love of Dr Who! Rochelle and Paul Scoones own a shop called Retrospace in Takapuna… Read more Audio
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Jane Ussher on photographing Antarctica
11:20 AM.This year marks the 60th year that Scott Base in Antartica has been in operation ... and one of the events marking this milestone is going to be a a TEDx event held at the Base - which aims to… Read more Audio
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Health with Lee-anne Wann
11:08 AM.It's at this time of year we start out with good intentions about our health and well-being. For Lee-Ann Wan focussing on health and fitness is for the whole year not just New Year's! Audio
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What Are You Reading? Paula Penfold
10:45 AM.Over January we'll be talking to some people about the types of books they're devouring in their downtime today we hear from our first book enthusiast. Audio
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Simon Sweetman on Prince
10:20 AM.One death no one saw coming was Prince. He died from an overdose at his Paisley Park home in Minnesota on April 21. He was just 57 Audio
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Ipswich's Hedgehog officer - Ali North
10:17 AM.The Suffolk Wildlife Trust wants to be the "most hedgehog friendly" place in the United Kingdom. And Ali North is lucky one who scored what some considered to be the best job in the world. Audio
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Christine Friis - Stopping dogs from eating Kiwis
10:00 AM.DoC ranger Christine Friis is holding a Kiwi Aversion training course in the Coromandel this weekend. It's to train dogs not to chase and kill kiwi. Audio
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Adam Rutherford - Human Genome
9:40 AM.Every single person on the planet who has ever lived or will ever live has something completely unique that can never be naturally repeated: Our DNA. That nucleic acid has the genetic information… Read more Audio
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Employee of the Month Paul Rogers
9:30 AM.He's 54-year-old mountain guide - who is speaking to us from Mt Cook village. Audio
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Nancy Brown - Holiday emergency planning
9:15 AM.Not to be a killjoy or anything, but while we're all on holidays or away from home, there's always a possibility - as with any other time of the year, that a larger scale natural or human disaster… Read more Audio
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Gardening with Lynda Hallinan
11:18 AM.Tips and tricks to get your fingers green with Lynda Hallinan. Audio
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Weevil Sex
11:06 AM.The sex life of one of New Zealand's strangest native species is going under the microscope in a new summer-long study. University of Auckland student Madeleine Thom is exploring the post-mating… Read more Audio
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The Caroline Bay Carnival
10:50 AM.The Caroline Bay Carnival is on at the moment - it's been an annual Christmas tradition in Timaru since 1911. Part of the tradition are the beauty pageants, there's now a call from the Carnival's… Read more Audio
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Home for Christmas with Amanda Scott
10:30 AM.Our home for Christmas was recommended by a listener Grant. His daughter is Amanda Scott , who is a geologist based in northern Sweden, where it can get to a finger numbing -30 degrees. Audio
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Dr Chris Acton: Hubble telescope
10:19 AM.Dr Chris Acton will be talking the Hubble telescope. Audio
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Bats with Yossi Yovel
10:10 AM.What are bats saying to each other? What does it all mean? Zoologist at Tel Aviv University and the head of the school's Bat Lab for Neuro-Ecology Yossi Yovel, is trying to figure out what they're… Read more Audio
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Paul Spoonley on changing holiday habits
9:21 AM.Massey University Professor Paul Spoonley on whether or not our great Kiwi Summers have changed to match the movement in demographics Audio
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The Queen's health & Brexit - Catherine Drew
9:09 AM.Princess Anne has offered reassurances about her mother's health after the Queen missed the Christmas church service at Sandringham for the first time in 28 years. We're also going to talk about the… Read more Audio
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Chris Riley of Eco Wanaka on Wetas
11:50 AM.Last week we had an interview with Chris Chadwick who had some of his Weta friends living together in a hotel he made for them. We recieved a load of feedback AGAIN, and we've got another Chris who… Read more Audio
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Food with Mawera Karetai
11:15 AM.Mawera Karetai shares her recipe for a perfect peach chutney. Read more Audio
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Bridge: Not just for Grandmas
11:05 AM.Bridge is a card game, and it's not for grandmas. At least that is what Richard Solomon thinks from New Zealand Bridge. Audio
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Adam Hyde is Home for Christmas
10:19 AM.Adam Hyde, joins us today as he is Home for Christmas. Adam is living in San Francisco and he can make you write a book in 5 days. He works for the collaborative knowledge foundation, and is the man… Read more Audio
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Mariah Carey NYE Disaster
10:08 AM.New York's massive New Year's Eve celebration hit an unusual snag when entertainment powerhouse Mariah Carey, who'd been hired to perform for revellers just before the ball dropped, seemed to botch… Read more Audio