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1:45 PM.It's 20 years since Regina Spektor released her third album - and major label debut - 'Soviet Kitsch'. It's one of those rare major label releases where Regina is credited as the sole song writer on… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.The 'Australasia Tapas Competition' kicks off in Auckland at the end of this month. During the fiery heats chefs from here and across the Tasman battle it out for the title. Not only will the winner… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.New Zealand is technically out of a recession, but despite this, spending is still down - and businesses are taking a hit. A recent Stats NZ report confirmed electronic card transactions for July… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.It's been 20 years since the ZED put out a full blown album. That's a long wait for fans of a band that came to typify that particular early 2000s New Zealand rock sound with hits like Renegade… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.The wee creature featured today is the Shore skink or Mokomoko. Read more Audio

3:25 PM.All the tips you need for a weekend spent in the greenhouse. Read more Audio

3:16 PM.Charlotte Ryan, host of Music 101 here on RNZ each Saturday afternoon from 1pm talks about what's happening on the music scene over the weekend, what's coming up on her show tomorrow and because… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Martin Bosley joins us with a great recipe for what is looking like a rubbish weekend (weather wise). He also has some ideas for fancying up the classic recipe. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Today we're joined by award winning singer songwriter Georgia Lines. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Dominic Corry reviews the latest films including the new Aliens movie, the 1960 Michael Powell classic Peeping Tom, Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros, the new four-hour film from legendary documentarian… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Scary stories from our listeners. Can you handle it?! Read more Audio

1:35 PM.A Belgium Blue cat called Traeger (show name: Masterpiece du Petite Prince) recently became the Supreme winner at the New Zealand Cat Fancy National cat show. Owner Wendy Powell is stoked at the win… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Kayla Schwalger is one of this year's Y25s. It's an annual list recognising 25 trailblazers and changemakers under 25 years of age, from all across Aotearoa. Schwalger is a co-founder of Tapasa -… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.Nothing Stands Still is the debut album from Mike Hall. You might know him as the lead singer of Balance, or as the bassist of Pluto. Nothing Stands Still was released today, and there is a story… Read more Audio

3:20 PM.Right now the Palmerston North City Council is weighing up whether they have to follow New Zealand law.  Read more Audio

3:15 PM.Plenty to talk about with Dave Armstrong in Wellington. Some of the issues on Dave's mind: the pending sale of Wellington airport shares, high profile Wellington council staffers have handed in their… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.By 1986 the world's number one ranked squash player Jahangir Khan had gone unbeaten for more than five years - then along came Ross Norman.  Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Dianne Swan reviews a few tracks from the debut solo album by Pluto bass player Mike Hall. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Friday begins two of the biggest days in the New Zealand darts calendar, with the Darts Masters kicking off in Hamilton.  Read more Audio

1:25 PM.The family of the late and legendary photojournalist Peter Bush has donated 300,000 of his photographs to the New Zealand Rugby Museum in Palmerston North.  Read more Audio

1:15 PM.The insurance watchdog, which has received a record number of complaints in the past year The Insurance & Financial Services Ombudsman Scheme (IFSO) resolves complaints about insurance and financial… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.They will look like fish, swim like fish and even sense like fish. Liz Garton meets a research team designing robofish and smart wetsuits to monitor the state of our oceans. Read more Audio