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3:14 PM.Kara Rickard joins Perlina to tell us what's happening on Music 101 on RNZ this Saturday afternoon. Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Alice Taylor is a trained pastry chef & former Masterchef contestant. She shares her Nana's recipe for Fijian Chicken Curry. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Weekly music sessions from New Zealand performers. Today, Jude Kelly. Read more Audio

2:06 PM.Our film regular Dom Corry reviews Australian shark and serial killer thriller Dangerous Animals, romantic drama Materialists starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal, and live action… Read more Audio

1:53 PM.Each week, we ask you the listeners to tell us about your strange, unexplainable, and coincidental experiences. 2101 is the text number if you have a story of your own, or if it requires a bit more… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Who knew that the world's only artificial gut manufacturer was based in Auckland? When we found out, we just had to learn more. Garth Sutherland is CEO at The Insides Company and tells Perlina Lau all… Read more Audio

1:22 PM.Daniel Rankin runs one of New Zealand's most successful baking Instagram pages - Man Can Cook. He takes an Only Fans approach...Mixing recipes with shirtess photos, pouring stuff over his abs, and… Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Sixteen-year-old Tyler Parkinson was always going to be a firefighter. Throughout his childhood, Tyler would spend time admiring his firefighter parents Nicole and Tony and their colleagues at… Read more Audio

3:31 PM.Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, artificial intelligence has gone from strength to strength. We are now at the point where it is threatening to displace whole occupations and take over… Read more Audio

3:16 PM.It's another instalment of Solving the World's Problems, where Dave Armstrong gives their reckons on the issues of the day in today's edition. Read more Audio

2:33 PM.New Zealand rugby lost another great this week with Stu Wilson dying at the age of 70. For most of his career, Stu served as a winger, playing 85 games for the All Blacks and almost 200 for… Read more Audio

2:15 PM.RNZ newsreader reviews Lost Boys and Bush Deep! Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Rather than being cognitive extensions of our minds, our smartphones are parasites devices designed to steal our, money and data - says a team of Australian philosophers. A recent paper in the… Read more Audio

1:26 PM.South Westland Salmon Farm on State Highway 6 is surrounded by mountains, rivers and valleys. Whoever buys the farm from the Monk family will get an off-the-shelf salmon farm business complete with… Read more Audio

1:09 PM.Yesterday morning, the National Library of New Zealand began the process of destroying half a million books and says they're going to be shredded and fed back into the recycling system. The library… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Late last year an unprecedented number of green sea turtles, or honu, washed up on New Zealand’s coastline.

Many were nursed back to health and released back into the wild – and some were returned… Read more Audio

3:08 PM.Revenge is front and center in American politics as the world witnesses the bitter break up of Elon Musk and US President Trump. Revenge is an addiction says Dr. James Kimmel Jr who knows the impulse… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.Violinist and musical director Peau Halapua talks to Jesse about her life, career, and favourite things.  Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Morning Report producer Katie Fitzgerald takes us on an overland adventure through South Korea & on to Japan. Audio

1:37 PM.A call has gone out to restaurants across the motu to buck up their ideas when it comes to their gluten-free dining offerings. More than 100,000 New Zealanders are estimated to be living with coeliac… Read more Audio

1:27 PM.Last year, Westlake Boys School headmaster David Ferguson left his job of 15 years to address a critical issue - a lack of teachers.  Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Broadcaster Sonia Gray has been on a journey to find out if psychedelics could be the answer to New Zealand's ongoing addiction and mental health crisis. Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Dr Greg Walton is a professor of psychology at Stanford University. He says a kind word, a tiny shift in thinking or a feeling of belonging can create big, lasting changes in people's lives. His new… Read more Audio