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Anti-virus phone calls
12:15 PM.Have you had a phone call from somebody saying that your computer has a virus and offering to fix it for you? So are these calls scams and what should you do if you get one? With Paul Brislen, Dr Mark… Read more Audio
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Japan: manga and toilet games
1:50 PM.Justin McCurry lives in Japan where manga characters have inspired a wave of anonymous giving. Plus the computer game you play while you go to the toilet. Audio
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High speed travel
1:30 PM.An ambitious plan to create a transport network of high-speed and ultra fuel-efficient vehicles using vacuum tubes. Peter Maskus of Acabion is the engineer behind the project. Audio
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Pests: Wasps
1:10 PM.We're on the hunt for wasps with pest controller Paul Chapman and our regular bug man Allen Heath. Audio
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Recreational tree climbing
12:50 PM.Peter 'Treeman' Jenkins is a retired rock climber turned tree surgeon and in 1983 he founded Tree Climbers' International and opened the world's first tree climbing school in Atlanta, Georgia. Audio
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Fonts: Simon Garfield
12:15 PM.From Arial to Webdings, we're speaking to Simon Garfield who's written Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Profile Books). Audio
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Weeds: Richard Mabey
1:40 PM.Richard Mabey talks about his book 'Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation And Changed The Way We Think About Nature'. Audio
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Sahara Forest Project
1:20 PM.BIll Watts of the Sahara Forest Project, a plan to turn the Sahara Desert into productive agricultural land. Audio
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London calling
1:10 PM.UK news with expat kiwi Chris Parkin. London gets a makeover before the big Royal Wedding and calls for a ban on Chinese lanterns. Plus a crematorium using the heat it produces to warm up the local… Read more Audio
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Hangover cure
12:55 PM.Professor Michael Oshinsky of Thomas Jefferson University's been hunting for the perfect hangover cure. Audio
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Food additives: gasses
12:40 PM.Gas in our foods and not just in fizzy drinks either. There's gas in meat and ice cream too....yum! With Associate Professor Matt Golding of Massey University. Audio
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The Digital Beyond
12:25 PM.Evan Carroll is one of the co-founders of Digital Beyond, a website advising people what to do with digital identities after death. Audio
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Superbowl heart attacks
12:15 PM.Robert Kloner's a cardiologist who's found that deaths due to heart attacks can rise during major sporting events. Audio
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Soup: A Global History
1:45 PM.Janet Clarkson has just written a global history of soup. From Vietnamese pho to a hearty chowder she reckons soup is one of the world's truly universal dishes. Audio
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Fantasy doctor
1:30 PM.Stephania Bell of ESPN is doctor on call for millions of fantasy American football players. Audio
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Plumpy'nut
1:10 PM.The story of Plumpy'nut: a fortified peanut paste that's saving starving kids in the developing world. So who should profit? Andrew Rice of the New York Times reports. Audio
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Tech news: Facebook and ACS:Law
12:45 PM.Bill Thompson on Facebook's plans to introduce its own currency for the millions of people who play games inside the social networking site. Audio
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Foraging: harakeke
12:30 PM.Foraging for harakeke or New Zealand flax with Johanna Knox. Audio
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Cuba broadband
12:15 PM.Cuba, one of the least connected coutries in the world, is about to get ultra-fast broadband via an undersea cable from Venezuela. Rory Carroll reports. Audio
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Health and Fitness Apps
1:45 PM.Richard MacManus with the latest applications for monitoring your health. Plus the new Radio New Zealand app. Audio
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Headaches: causes and cures
1:35 PM.Consultant neurologist Dr Paul Timmings on what causes headaches and migraines. Audio
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Digital heirlooms
1:30 PM.Richard Banks of Microsoft on preserving our digital memories for future generations. Audio
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Mental diet
1:30 PM.Carey Morewedge of Carnegie Mellon University on his study into how imagining eating food could make you eat less. Audio
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Chocolate wars
1:10 PM.Author Deborah Cadbury on the early British chocolate industry and the Quaker business model. Audio
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Festive Leftovers
12:35 PM.Roger Cook of the New Zealand Food Safety Authority on how long we should hang on to our Christmas turkey and ham. Audio