The Panel for Friday 2 October 2020

3:46 PM.Ireland's Supreme Court has ruled that bread sold by the fast food chain Subway contains so much sugar that it cannot be legally defined as bread. Rob Kelly gets to the bottom of the doughy issue Audio

3:55 PM.What panellists Penny Ashton and Chris Finlayson have been thinking. Audio

4:08 PM.Housing affordability is getting out of reach for more New Zealanders as the median house price continues to sky rocket. The Panel talks to NZ Initiative's chief economist, Dr Eric Crampton. Audio

4:17 PM.It's thought an isolating returnee caught COVID 19 from sharing a rubbish bin with another person who already had the virus. Wallace speaks to virologist, Dr Jemma Geoghegan from Otago University. Audio

4:19 PM.There are increasing calls for COVID quarantine facilities to be further out of urban areas in light of a massive jump in imported cases. Historian Grant Morris talks to the Panel about what we can… Read more Audio

4:26 PM.Friday Mailbag: Wallace goes through the correspondence of the week looking at the big issues listeners were in touch about. Audio

4:32 PM.Today in music history, Tiffany her song, 'I think We're Alone Now', hit number one in the US and UK.) Audio

4:34 PM.Sports commentator Hamish Bidwell talks to The Panel about the exclusion of a Pasifika rugby team in the Super Rugby Aotearoa competition in 2021. Audio

4:42 PM.The Panel looks at who the 'Proud Boys' are that were given a shout out by Donald Trump during the first 2020 Presidential Debate earlier this week. The Panel speaks to Professor Paul Spoonley about… Read more Audio

4:50 PM.Research shows Māori are still more likely to be prosecuted for cannabis offences. Justice advocate and lawyer Julia Whaipooti discusses with The Panel. Audio

4:56 PM.Research shows that talking to strangers is good for wellbeing. Audio