Summer Report for Friday 18 January 2019

8:55 AM.RNZ Summer Report presenters Chris Bramwell and Craig McCulloch sample a different beer every day with Steph Coutts from Craft Beer College in Wellington. Today we talk hangovers. Audio

8:50 AM.The 2019 Kaikoura Longboard Festival kicks off tomorrow. The international event will see competitors racing down one kilometre of smooth asphalt, navigating six sweeping corners at jaw-clenching… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.A new report published in the medical journal, The Lancet, says that in order to continue to sustain the global population the whole world needs to change what it eats and how food is grown -… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.New research here in New Zealand has found preschoolers who spend too long in front of screens are more likely to be obese, visit the doctor more often and have poorer physical motor skills. That's… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Staff and students at New Zealand's largest agricultural training facility remain uncertain if they can teach or attend courses this year. Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre, which opened just shy… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.A leading public health researcher is urging policy makers to take the cautious path toward cannabis law reform New Zealanders will have the chance to vote on whether to legalise the recreational use… Read more Audio

8:21 AM.Archaeologists have uncovered moa-bone fish-hooks and other astonishing evidence of voyaging Polynesians settling in Aotearoa more than 700 years ago. For the last two weeks, volunteers and workers… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.The beginning of the university year is fast approaching which means students moving en masse around the country. The notorious 'O-week' or orientation week usually sees students engaging in heavy… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.An Australian refugee advocate says up to sixty New Zealanders in the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre near Perth may have gone on hunger strike. Ian Rintoul says a group of men at another… Read more Audio