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Riders For Health
1:15 PM.For nearly 25 years Andrea Coleman's been campaigning to improve access to healthcare in Africa. Audio
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Navigation
12:40 PM.In his book 'The Lost Art of Finding Our Way', John Huth looks at traditional navigation methods and our modern reliance on digital technology. Also some of the challenges facing practicing Muslims as… Read more Audio
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Massive market
12:30 PM.La Central de Abasto in Mexico City covers 327 hectares, making it the biggest fresh produce market on the planet. Nicola Twilley from ediblegeography.com is there. Audio
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Crime Scene Investigation:NZ
12:15 PM.Rob Knight is an expat New Zealander finding ways to use the microbes living in us and on us to help solve murders and explain mysterious deaths. Audio
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India: gold buyback and Goa
1:50 PM.Anu Anand in India on government plans to buy back gold from the public to boost the economy. Also Goa tries to reinvent itself as an upmarket tourism destination. Audio
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Ninety Percent of Everything
1:25 PM.Rose George takes us on board a container ship and inside the murky world of international shipping in her book 'Ninety Percent of Everything'. Audio
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Naked Science
1:10 PM.Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith; preventing drug side effects, turning off genes to stop jet lag, and the secrets of DEET are finally discovered. Audio
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Tech: Premier League Pass and internet TV
12:45 PM.Peter Griffin reviews Premier League Pass and Vodafone's internet TV service. With Coliseum Sports Media's CEO Tim Martin. Audio
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Cookisto
12:35 PM.Michalis Gkontas is the founder and CEO of Cookisto.com. It's a website and app that's matching up buyers and sellers of homemade food in Athens and London. Audio
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Dress For Success
12:15 PM.Dress For Success is an international network helping women to find jobs and stay in work. It provides a free clothing and fitting service for jobhunters here in New Zealand too. With dresser Kristeen… Read more Audio
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Space Food
1:45 PM.New Zealander Bryan Caldwell is trying to understand how our sense of taste and smell changes in space in order to design tastier foods for long-distance space missions. Audio
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Czech Food
1:25 PM.It's pork, dumplings and sauerkraut time with Czech chef Marie Taufer. Audio
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Heart-based passwords
1:15 PM.Karl Martin is the President and CEO of Bionym, the Canadian company behind the Nymi wristband. Audio
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Worldreader.org
12:50 PM.David Risher's a former Microsoft and Amazon executive who's Worldreader project aims to make free ereaders and ebooks available across the developing world. Audio
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Spain: Bikes and working hours
12:40 PM.In Spain, sales of new bikes have outstripped new car sales for the first time. Also the country considers shortening its working day. With Paul Hamilos. Audio
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The Sports Gene
12:15 PM.David Epstein looks at the genetic basis of sporting excellence in his book The Sports Gene. Audio
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Booing
1:50 PM.Professor Dan Rebellato of Royal Holloway University of London's been studying booing and has found that it's got a long and illustrious history. Audio
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Tech news: Broadband offers
1:35 PM.Tech correspondent Peter Griffin on the state of New Zealand's broadband market. Audio
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Amazon soccer stadium
1:20 PM.Sam Borden of the The New York Times has been in Manaus looking at the challenges of building the 42,000-seater Arena Amazonia for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Audio
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Naked Science
1:10 PM.Dr Chris Smith with news of a Chinese man who's growing a nose on his forehead. Also the earwax of a blue whale reveals secrets about its lifestyle. Audio
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Gluten Free baking
12:45 PM.Cooking gluten free food with chef Richard Corney of Flight Coffee. Audio
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Gluten intolerance and Coeliac disease
12:15 PM.The challenges and the compromises that come with living a gluten free life. With Dr Jason Tye-Din, Sarah Semple, daughter Jemma and Bill Darnell. Audio
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Home internet filtering
1:40 PM.IT specialist Adrian Hayes of Security Assessment.com has advice on controlling your family's internet surfing destinations via your router; the box that acts as your gateway to the web. Audio
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Stuff Matters
1:15 PM.Mark Miodownik is a Professor of Materials Science at University College London. His book 'Stuff Matters' explores the materials, like concrete and steel, that shape our man-made world. Audio
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Yeast museum
12:45 PM.Kyria Boundy-Mills is the curator of one of the world's biggest collections of wild yeast at The University of California, Davis. Audio