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12:45 PM.People use the term 'non-binary' when they don't identify as completely male or completely female. 'NB' offers a first person account of what living as a non-binary person feels like.  Read more Audio

12:35 PM.In a new podcast called 'Against The Rules', author Michael Lewis looks at the idea of fairness in different walks of life...in law, the media, the financial markets, and in sport...and asks why the… Read more Audio

12:25 PM.The 'Wild Dunedin' podcast tells stories about the wild things, large and small, that live around the city. For example, the southern right whale used to be a common sight- and sound!- around Dunedin… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.'Blackout' is a new fiction podcast looking at what could happen if power went down across the entire US. So imagine a world where mobile communications and the internet fail, and where news is hard… Read more Audio

12:59 PM.Going into a downward spiral on the BBC's Short Cuts, Out of The Blocks is telling street stories from a gritty city, and ordering dream dishes in an imaginary restaurant in Off Menu. Audio

12:50 PM.If you could eat anything at all...anything...what would your dream meal be?! It's the simple question that British comedians Ed Gamble and James Acaster pose to their guests in 'Off Menu', as they… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Baltimore in Maryland (Population: 611,000) is the birthplace of baseballer Babe Ruth and of the US national anthem 'The Star Spangled Banner'. It's a historic port and manufacturing centre, with more… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.You encounter a rude shop assistant, there are fireworks in your neighbourhood at what is quite clearly the wrong time of the year, or the parking space you had your eye on is lost because somebody… Read more Audio

12:43 PM.'Switched On Pop' goes deep on some of today's biggest hits, with musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding joined by a musical guest. We share a couple of clips: one (with guest K.Flay)… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.Some people worry that technology could be changing the way we read. So are we all becoming skimmers and headline grasping multi-taskers, losing our ability to concentrate on a long form article, or… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The English language is full of weird and wonderful words and 'The Allusionist' (Radiotopia) delights in finding the stories behind them and discovering how we're using language today. We share some… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Getting to grips with language in 'The Allusionist', the 'IRL' podcast asks how technology's changing the way we read, and 'Switched On Pop' goes deep on today's biggest pop hits. Audio

12:47 PM.It's a far out true story featuring New Age thinking, The Space Race, dream telepathy, the Grateful Dead, and ESP. With the world living under the threat of nuclear attack, the idea was to bypass Cold… Read more Audio

12:37 PM.The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by the American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft is a story that only got published after his death. Now it gets a modern makeover 90-odd years after it was written and… Read more Audio

12:25 PM.In 'Chat 10 Looks 3' two well-known Australian journalists and media personalities- Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb- share their friendship, and details of their lives outside work. We play some of… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Twenty Thousand Hertz is the highest frequency the human ear can hear. It's also the name of a podcast for anyone who's interested in why things sound the way they do. Host Dallas Taylor's a sound… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Stories in sound from Twenty Thousand Hertz, broadcasting banter from Chat 10 Looks 3, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and a story of DIY alternative diplomacy in Spacebridge. Audio

12:55 PM.The US talkshow host Conan O'Brien worked as a comedy writer for Saturday Night Live and on The Simpsons before getting his own show back in 1993. In November he started his podcast 'Conan O'Brien… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.RNZ colleague Kim recommended a podcast she's enjoying called Paname. All about Paris, it uncovers the city's hidden histories, exploring all manner of strange and interesting stuff about the French… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.It began as a bit of a joke. The writer and journalist Jon Mooalem started recording the walks he took near his home on a wooded island in the north western US. All you can hear on his podcast… Read more Audio

12:25 PM.His children's books have sold more than 25 million copies in just 10 years. As well as being a writer, he's an actor, comedian, talent show judge, and a long-distance swimmer: so is there anything… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Crew members on giant container ships crossing the world are singing karaoke to combat homesickness and loneliness. Richard Scott checks out a recent BBC programme that allows listeners rare access to… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:01 PM.Karaoke battles on giant container ships, David Walliams wants to get more kids into classical music, a show that's just one guy going for a walk, a Parisian podcast telling the French capital's… Read more Audio

12:55 PM.From the outside, it looked like the perfect marriage. Dan was an Ivy League-trained lawyer and academic who seemed to be on the fast track to success when he met Wendi, another bright and… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Long, long ago, in a time before bagless vacuum cleaners and Marie Kondo, sweeping with a brush was the best way we had to tidy up the places we work, rest, and play. To this day, some people still… Read more Audio