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5:28 PM.Chess is the most popular it has ever been in New Zealand new players are picking up the pieces every year. It's hit somewhat of a sweet spot in popular media with the success of Netflix series The… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Musician, journalist and icon Moana Maniapoto joins Emile to play some of the favourite artists she has joined on stage around the world over her career. No part of the musical globe will be left… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.An initiative aimed at wiping out possums once and for all the Eastern Bay of Plenty is reaching the end of its first year. The Korehaha Whakahau project, run by Te Runanga o Ngati Awa, is Predator… Read more Audio

10:37 AM.Very few people have seen as much news unfold in front of them as journalist, correspondent and editor Jon Sopel. Jon joined the BBC in 1983. He's been the chief political correspondent for BBC News… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.New Zealand offers many opportunities for "energising" bush adventures, says Helen Clark. In the second episode of Lady and the Tramp, Clark reflects on her experience walking Marlborough's Queen… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.What happened to all the jokers?, asks writer and columnist John Summers in North and South last year. And he has a point. When my dear-departed great-grandmother Georgie Morrissey was alive every man… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.The Omicron variant has cause chaos across the world, plunging many countries who thought they were on the cusp of controlling Covid-19 back into full public health response mode. The transmission… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.The date January the 6th picked up a new resonance in the United States Capital last year. The demonstration taking place outside the Capitol in Washington DC turned violent quickly and hundreds of… Read more Audio

5:51 PM.Aotearoa has one of the world's richest troves of marine fossils, but we're still just finding out exactly what it is we're sitting on. A recent research project in Canterbury used medical CT imaging… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Wordle. If you know, you know. For the uninitiated, Wordle is a very simple, brainteaser-style word game. You can only play once per day. Every player is trying to guess a word - the same word, for… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.The news cycle the week of Christmas is always dominated by something unexpected. But did any of us really have "DJ controversy" down on our last week of 2021 bingo cards? But that's what we got. UK… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.We're going on a journey into Aotearoa's past now! We're continuing our series 'Who Lived There'. It's based on a book of the same name which came out last year. Jane King took the photographs and Nic… Read more Audio

10:33 AM.New Zealand offers many opportunities for "energising" bush adventures, says Helen Clark. In the first episode of Lady and the Tramp, Clark reflects on her experience walking Fiordland's Milford… Read more Video, Audio

10:09 AM.News broke this week that Italy is returning a fragment looted from the Parthenon in Athens to the Greek Government. The piece of marble is part of a carving of a draped figure from the eastern side… Read more Audio

9:53 AM.Peter Bogdanovich, the US film director known for films such The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon has died aged 82, his agent confirmed on Thursday. Film critic Dan Slevin joins Emile to discuss the… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.News broke earlier this morning that cinema legend Sidney Poitier has passed away. Poitier is one of the most important figures in film history. The Bahamian American actor was the first black man to… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.In October last year state and federal officials confirmed vaccinations would be mandatory for any athletes participating in the tournament, leading to speculation the world number one, Novak… Read more Audio

6:42 PM.David James Shearer .. spent over 20 years working for the UN, managing the provision of aid to countries including Somalia, Rwanda, Liberia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iraq. He was a member of… Read more Audio

5:10 PM.New Zealand is the seabird capital of the world! We also have more than twice as many threatened species of seabirds than any other country. Our seabirds are more threatened than our land birds and… Read more Audio

11:28 AM.Because we've just taken a trip into Dunedin's past, and specifically The Empire Hotel, we thought it would be appropriate for our music feature this morning to be focused on of course, the Dunedin… Read more Audio

11:14 AM.We're going on a journey into Aotearoa's past now, and a very special hotel. We're continuing our series 'Who Lived There' this morning, it's based on a book of the same name which came out last year… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Have you been out in the waves yet this summer? It can often be a real mark of the begining of the summer holiday, that first submerging in freezing ocean water. It's even the case in Te… Read more Audio

10:33 AM.We're talking gardening now, and specifically the ubiquitous fern. Found all over the country, it is a plant that just loves our temperate climate. In NZ alone we have about 200 species, and around… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.We tend to associate the Middle Ages with plagues and pestilence. Author and historian Dr Eleanor Janega lectures on medieval history at London School of Economics at the University of London and has… Read more Audio