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10:18 PM.Butter, cheese and milk are the biggest drivers of the rise in food prices, with butter alone soaring 65%. NZX dairy analyst Rosalind Crickett tells us why. Read more Audio

9:35 PM.Antti Tuomainen writes grisly crime novels from his home in one of the happiest countries on Earth: Finland -- only he makes them funny. Deeply, darkly funny. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.The use of the C-word has sparked quite a debate this week. Language expert, Andreea Calude explains the evolution of swearing.   Read more Audio

10:50 PM.A bus service with a difference has been breaking records for patronage down in Timaru and it's now set to become a permanent feature of the city's transport system.

MyWay by Metro the city's on… Read more Audio

10:40 PM.It is the biggest night in New Zealand literature -- the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

We will be crossing live to the winner of the General Non-fiction category. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.New Zealand's pay equity claim system has been cancelled -- and all thirty-three claims will be started again from scratch.

The goal of pay equity legislation was to give deals to work forces that… Read more Audio

10:18 PM.
Te Pāti Māori MPs will be temporarily suspended from Parliament for "acting in a manner that could have the effect of intimidating a member of the House" after performing a haka during the first… Read more Audio

8:30 PM.It is getting colder but the cold does not dissuade people who swear by the restorative powers of open ocean swimming. 

And hey, it might just work for you.

Simon Olliver is the president of the… Read more Audio

10:45 PM.On Sunday, the failed Soviet Cosmos 482 crashed back down to earth fifty-three years after it was launched into orbit. But this isn't the first time pieces have crashed through the atmosphere ... even… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.CAR T-cell therapy is giving hope to cancer patients around the world. While not currently available in New Zealand, a clinical trial is underway at Wellington's Malaghan Institute. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Private helipads are becoming more common. In 2019, New Zealand's civilian helicopter fleet was six times bigger per capita than that of the U.S.
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9:35 PM.Yes, we write programmes to instruct computers but how do we get them to "understand" those instructions in the first place? Read more Audio

9:25 PM.What changes to immigration rules might mean for Kiwis, the expected appointment of MI6's first female chief and how Pink Floyd are sitting top of the charts. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.The Cannes Film Festival says it will no longer tolerate nudity on its red carpet but what about closer to home? Turns out being nude in public is NOT illegal in New Zealand. Not by itself, anyway ...

10:45 PM.BBC World journalist Jonathan Frewin joins Emile Donovan to explain the big events making headlines internationally, including Donald Trump's first major foreign trip of his term to Saudi Arabia… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Sports writer Richard Irvine joins Emile Donovan to debrief the weekend in sport. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.With Air New Zealand prices soaring, aviation commentator Irene King joins Emile Donovan to explain all the different components that make-up the price of a flight: from dynamic inputs like demand to… Read more Audio

9:35 PM.Professor Anina Rich from Macquarie University in Sydney joins Emile Donovan to take a scientific journey through synesthesia: a phenomenon where ordinary interactions with sounds and symbols can… Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Award-winning author Emma Hislop (Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, Kāi Tahu) joins Emile Donovan to share a whakataukī close to her heart. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.Former NetSafe CEO Martin Cocker weighs in on a Palmerston North company taking social media site Reddit to court over anonymous posts made blasting their business. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.The University of Otago is putting both The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship for visual arts and The Mozart fellowship for music on hold due to budgeting concerns. Read more Audio

9:35 PM.Our resident screen critic Dan Slevin casts his expert eye over Thunderbolts (in cinemas), Flintoff (Disney+) and The Grey (Māori+). Read more Audio

8:30 PM.The New Zealand Orchid society is putting on their Annual Autumn Orchid Show with hundreds of rare and unique flowers being judged, including some for sale! Read more Audio

10:45 PM.Kate Curtis is a PhD student at Lincoln University and native jumping spiders are her passion. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.The winner of the Prime Minister's Macdiarmid Science Prize, Dr Olivia Harrison, leads a lab combining neuroscience with fields like physiology and computational modelling to learn more about what is… Read more Audio