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Online travel review
1:10 PM.Chris Parkin with consumer news from the UK. New Zealand lamb gets a bit of bad publicity. Plus nearly 800 hotels and B and amp;Bs fight back against TripAdvisor.com, one of the world's biggest travel… Read more Audio
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The beautiful game?
12:45 PM.After the recent acrimonious takeover of Liverpool Football Club and with Manchester United's star striker Wayne Rooney agitating for a transfer, the Guardian's football correspondent David Conn on… Read more Audio
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Bees 17: Expansion
12:25 PM.The Backyard Bee Team goes into expansion mode. After a bumper honey harvest last year, bee mentor David Carleton helps us move in a new hive. Audio
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Cuddly toy tours
12:15 PM.Denis Gerber will take your cuddly toy on holiday in Paris and send you the photos to prove it. Audio
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Digital Radio
1:50 PM.How far away is New Zealand from launching a digital radio service like they've got in the US, the UK, Australia and Korea? Aaron Olphert from Kordia knows. Audio
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Wendyl Nissen
1:35 PM.Wendyl Nissen's spent the past year trying to live more simply- a bit like her granny used to. She shares some of her natural recipes for things like sunscreen and cleaning products. Audio
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Apps review: check-in apps
1:20 PM.Richard MacManus of ReadWriteWeb looks at some of the big check-in apps out there. Audio
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Champion porridge maker
1:10 PM.Scotsman Neal Robertson has just been crowned the world champion porridge maker. His secret weapon is a stirring implement called a spon. Audio
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Right to bear arms
12:50 PM.Anna Fifield visits the only city in the US where gun ownership's not just a constitutional right; it's compulsory! Audio
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Taking the pith?
12:35 PM.Professor Julian Heyes answers more culinary conundrums. This week, do you have to wash fruit and veggies before you eat them? Plus should you eat the pith and peel you find on mandarins and oranges? Audio
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Kimchi crisis
12:15 PM.Brett Cole reports from South Korea where a cabbage shortage has seen kimchi prices jump by 500 percent. Plus we find out Mrs Ahn's secret recipe for this fermented cabbage dish. Audio
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Food additives: thickeners
1:45 PM.Guar, locust bean and xanthan gums are all food thickeners. Matt Golding joins us in the aisles to tell us what they are and how they work. Audio
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Caviar: a global history
1:25 PM.Caviar retails for about 20,000 NZ dollars a kilo and the real McCoy comes from the giant sturgeon found in the Caspian and Black seas. Food writer and historian Nichola Fletcher has just written its… Read more Audio
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Spicy stuff
1:10 PM.Professor Paul Rozin has been examining what possesses so many people to eat hot, spicy foods. Audio
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Snail Trail
12:45 PM.Keen gardener, grandmother and amateur scientist Ruth Brooks has just proved that snails have a homing instinct. Plus ecology professor Steve Wratten has tips for the home gardener on how to keep… Read more Audio
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Pet blood bank
12:15 PM.We visit New Zealand's only pet blood bank in Manawatu where Neil and Sandy Marshall bleed cats, dogs and the odd alpaca! Audio
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Plastic fantastic
1:55 PM.Peter Lewis is turning plastic rubbish into building blocks in Dunedin. Audio
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Email discount offers
1:40 PM.Daily emails offering you mouth-watering bargains on everything from ice creams to ski passes are becoming a part of many people's inbox traffic. Sheldon Nesdale is looking at the sector: so how does… Read more Audio
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Carnivorous plants
1:30 PM.Peter D'Amato's the man behind one of the largest carnivorous plant retailers in the world. He has literally thousands of these for sale, and they're all hungry! Audio
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Tech news
1:10 PM.Bill Thompson on the lawyer's letters being sent to lots of UK computer users who are suspected of downloading a few tracks illegally or watching a bit of porn on the home PC. Plus the words on… Read more Audio
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Kaimoana: Whitebait
12:40 PM.Whitebait's the fingerling that's lovely fried. Continuing our fish series with Rachel Taulelei. Audio
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Spencer Wells: birth of farming
12:15 PM.Spencer Wells is the author of 'Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilisation'. In it he suggests the most important moment in human history was when we stopped hunting and gathering and started… Read more Audio
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Should you stretch before exercise?
1:45 PM.You'll often see joggers, cyclists and footy players bending and stretching enthusiastically before starting any physical activity. But does all this limbering up actually achieve anything? Malachy… Read more Audio
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Book: When A Billion Chinese Jump
1:15 PM.Jonathan Watts lives in Beijing and in his book 'When A Billion Chinese Jump' he looks at how the developed world's appetite for consumer goods is transforming China's environment. Audio
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Falling iPod sales and the music biz
12:50 PM.iPod sales are on the decline and so are paid digital downloads. Charles Arthur, the technology editor at the Guardian, looks at the implications for the music industry. Audio