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1:25 PM.A portrait Ngati Manawa tohunga (or priest) Wharekauri Tahuna by Charles Fredrick Goldie has sold at auction for just over $3.75 million dollars. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.According to the Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Trust, our current funding model for conservation is "broken". Read more Audio

3:30 PM.Katy Gosset talks to financial mentors about navigating Christmas on a budget. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Dr James Rilling is a neuroscientist and a father himself whose been studying the biology and evolution of fatherhood for 15 years.  Read more Audio

2:30 PM.City-pop is a mix of American/UK influenced pop music that emerged in Japan in the late 1970s eventually giving way to J-Pop and the idol groups of the 90s. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Our Aussie correspondent looks at the fallout from the social media ban and there's an update in the Molly the Magpie saga. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Anna Rankin reviews Caroline Crampton's new book, a fascinating mix of memoir, history and literary criticism.  Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Vertech managing director Dan Watson has had enough of rubbish Christmas gifts. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Jesse chats to Tourism Ireland Executive Vice President Alison Metcalfe about Ireland as a travel destination. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Global sales have slowed, and recently prices for new EVs have been slashed again and again after sales fell off a cliff at the start of the year. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.It's been a dream start for Auckland FC. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.There is real art in capturing a life in one thousand words. For more than 20 years, that's what Ann Wroe has done for The Economist magazine as the obituary editor. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Kathryn Burnett is an award-winning screen writer based in Tamaki Makaurau. She answers audience questions about screen writing. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Every week we call a random Information center in New Zealand Aotearoa. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Brooks Alexander joins Jesse to discuss and review the latest TV out there. He also talks about Silo and Arcane. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.A survey conducted by Public Trust has found that 57% of Kiwis are uncomfortable, fearful, or reluctant to talk about death. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.The University of Auckland and two Chinese universities have begun a three-year collaboration on caring for coastal wetlands as sea levels rise. Read more Audio

1:15 PM.The celebrated photographer has a new book called Woolsheds. Read more Audio

3:35 PM.This week's critter is one of the most intelligent animals in the ocean. Te whai rahi, the giant oceanic manta ray, has a brain to body mass ratio similar to our own and is one of the only fish that… Read more Audio

3:25 PM.Are you looking at the garden and thinking 'I need to get stuck into that'? And is it so daunting a task, that you don;t know where to start? Well, relax. Gardening expert Lynda Hallinan is here to… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.This delicious salad is straight from Nic's new restaurant, Canting in Commercial Bay, Auckland. It's a fresh, modern Chinese inspired salad. Get the recipe here. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.The Queen of Hollywood is in to review satirical Italian film There's Still Tomorrow and the sequel to Disney's mega hit Moana. Read more Audio