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Thursday, 10 October 2024
- 9:15 Auckland Youth Choir turns 40
- 9:40 Kathleen Jamie on her inspiration and identity as a Scottish poet
- 10:18 Wellington City Council decide to keep airport shares
- 10:30 Hurricane Milton update with NIWA's Ben Noll
- 10:45 How the NZ Crime and Victims survey works
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
- 9:15 Myth Takes: Homer and the epics
- 10:18 Homelessness surging in New Zealand's biggest city, says Census
- 10:30 'An Island to Oneself' republished
- 10:45 Days left to vote for New Zealand's favourite classical music
Tuesday, 8 October 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: What is foreign aid?
- 9:35 Live from the APRA Silver Scrolls with Charlotte Ryan
- 9:45 Politics by Night with Dan Brunskill
- 10:18 What it's going to take to clean up the Manawanui
- 10:30 Kiwi illustrator's love letter to television
- 10:45 It's swooping season, so how do you keep magpies at bay?
Monday, 7 October 2024
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Peter Keegan
- 9:30 The science of cloning
- 10:18 One year of conflict in Gaza
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Rob Hugh-Jones
Friday, 4 October 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: New Zealand Cheese Festival
- 9:40 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 3 October 2024
- 9:15 Philosophy Now: How should we treat criminals?
- 9:35 Music, poetry and performance combine with te reo at Wellington's Jazz Festival
- 10:20 What is diplomatic immunity and why are diplomats protected this way?
- 10:50 Lilliput Libraries: The little libraries packing a big punch
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
- 9:15 Agony Aunt Courtney Dawson
- 10:18 Aotearoa's "for-purpose" sector in demand but underfunded
- 10:30 Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
- 10:50 Does New Zealand need an online dating code of conduct?
Tuesday, 1 October 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: Why does our hair go grey?
- 9:30 Politics by Night with Thomas Coughlan
- 9:45 Heads up: Look out for kākā in the roof, DOC say
- 10:18 New initiative launches to remove tattoos applied during cancer treatment
- 10:30 The joy of Bollywood dancing
- 10:45 Thomas Stazyk's hobby: Model ship building
Monday, 30 September 2024
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week with Tuhingaia Manihera
- 9:30 What life would look like on a planet with no night and day
- 10:18 Kim Dotcom: Why has New Zealand spent 12 years trying to extradite him?
- 10:30 Sports with Kayla Hodge
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin
Friday, 27 September 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: The Wellington Puppetry Festival
- 9:30 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:17 Author Catherine Chidgey on bidding wars and global popularity
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 26 September 2024
- 9:15 What can be done about disinformation?
- 9:35 Award-winning choreographer Loughlan Prior on his new show
- 10:17 Former Minister for Health and MP for Dunedin North reacts to signalled downgrade of new Dunedin Hospital
- 10:30 How a $1 million bequest is helping make children's leg braces cool
- 10:50 Iconic NZ magazine to be digitised
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
- 9:15 Our Changing World's Claire Concannon on what makes a wobbly polar vortex
- 10:17 What you need to know about the Fonterra financial result
- 10:30 Misheard lyrics: The world of mondegreens
- 10:45 The man behind what could be NZ's capital of gemstone collecting
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: Why voices in older recordings sound so different to voices today?
- 9:30 Politics by Night with Dan Brunskill
- 10:17 What is the role of the Police Commissioner and who's line for the top job?
- 10:30 The 'bystander effect': Would you step in to help?
- 10:45 Hamish McNeilly on why he's fallen in love with a rubbish app
Monday, 23 September 2024
- 9:30 The Science of Rapa Nui/ Easter Island
- 9:50 Government dials back on work-from-home arrangements
- 10:17 What was behind the fever-pitch public interest in Polkinghorne trial?
- 10:30 Sports with Bryan Waddle
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Jonathan Frewin
Friday, 20 September 2024
- 10:35 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
- 9:15 This Weekend: Backgammon North Island Champs
- 9:30 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:20 Innovative Kava bowl up for a design award
Thursday, 19 September 2024
- 9:15 What's stopping men from opening up about their health?
- 9:35 New book celebrates one of NZ's most prolific hymn writers
- 10:18 Tough economic times continue
- 10:30 Hawkes Bay's newest firetruck named Judy Drench
- 10:45 The possible implications of Manchester City's legal battles
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
- 9:15 The most and least common birthdays in New Zealand
- 10:18 Hezbollah's exploding pagers explained
- 10:30 Canada's first indigenous languages commissioner tours Aotearoa for Māori language week
- 10:45 Photographer Leslie Adkin: A portal back into the land of milk and honey
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: How do you train sheepdogs?
- 9:30 Nights Politics
- 10:17 Comanchero motorcycle gang targeted in major police operation
- 10:30 The Caitlin Clark effect
- 10:50 'Books that made us want to keep on reading':The 2024 Booker Prize shortlist
Monday, 16 September 2024
- 9:15 Whakataukī of the Week
- 9:30 The science of native earthworms
- 9:50 The story behind the Kiwi accent on Slovakia train announcements
- 10:17 Jehovah's Witnesses' final attempt to escape the Abuse in Care inquiry dismissed by the Supreme Court
- 10:30 Sports with Jamie Wall
- 10:45 BBC World Lookahead with Rob Hugh-Jones
Friday, 13 September 2024
- 9:15 This Weekend: The Otago Slam Poetry Champs
- 9:30 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
- 10:17 Meet the women behind the new 'underground fashion week'
- 10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Thursday, 12 September 2024
- 9:15 In celebration of the moon
- 9:35 What's behind the comeback of the typewriter?
- 10:17 What you need to know about Treaty principles
- 10:30 Is the cowboy getting back in the saddle? Why western-genre movies are on the rise
- 10:45 The appeal of a stiletto shaped bath
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
- 9:15 Myth Takes: Politicians and debates
- 10:17 What you need to know about GovGPT
- 10:30 Examining cycles of life, death and rebirth
- 10:45 What's behind New Zealand's early dining culture?
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
- 9:15 Shower Thoughts: Who owns human ashes?
- 9:30 Remembering actor James Earl Jones
- 9:45 Politics by Night with Peter Field
- 10:18 Security in space: What does Operation Olympic Defender mean for NZ?
- 10:35 Understanding the human soul
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