Finlay Macdonald

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Pear Salad with haloumi, parmesan, slivers of date and toasted pine nuts. Audio

Warwick Heal of Pakawau Beach nominates 'These Days' by the Foo Fighters. Audio

Topics - The TAB is predicting record betting of nine million dollars in New Zealand on the Melbourne Cup. The Accident Compensation Corporation is asking people to take care around fireworks this Guy… Audio

Topics - A senior police officer has been brought in from outside Auckland to help investigate a group of young men who've been boasting online about sex with intoxicated girls. The police have been… Audio

In a session recorded in front of an audience at Te Papa, Craig Linkhorn, John Robinson, Amy Dixon and Duran Moy explore their very diverse perspectives on the current Constitutional Review. The… Audio

Topics - MPs in Britain are about to debate a big report commissioned into cycling, how to get more Brits on bikes and make cycling safer. At 9 this morning, the Marriage Amendment Act came into law… Audio

Topics - central New Zealand has had a flurry of earthquakes, the biggest a 6.6 at 2.30 on Friday, while we were on air. The latest shake has caused severe damage in Seddon and minor damage in other… Audio

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Topics - Andy Murray has praised the work of his coach, Ivan Lendl, following his historic win at Wimbledon this morning. We mentioned last week about the current fashion for home detention in… Audio

Topics - Experts are calling for compulsory cyber-education programmes in all schools from primary level to stem the impact of explicit material on young people. It's possible the first part of the… Audio

Topics - In the New Zealand Herald today, a young woman who asked three All Blacks fans at Eden Park not to use homophobic language says she was told that "it's just part of the game". A massive… Audio

Topics - Do we really want to see the emails between Peter Dunne and Fairfax reporter Andrea Vance? The senior lawyer appointed by the Prime Minister to investigate the GCSB wrote a report which was… Audio

Topics - Seven million adults in Britain have never used the internet, according to new figures from their Office of National Statistics. The New Zealand Herald is reporting that a flight from… Audio

Topics - The Finance Minister, Bill English, says the Government is on target to have its books back in surplus by 2014/15. Why GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is a 'Poor Measure of Wealth and… Audio

The BBC is likely to play 'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead' on the radio this weekend; controversy over smoking scenes in The Hobbit; and cheap new tablet computers. Audio

An anonymous blogger claims to have available for download a copy of a leaked EQC spreadsheet with details of 65,000 claims; and the Kiwiblog website is accusing the teachers' union of bullying… Audio

Topics - The cities that thrive in the 21st century will be those that put airports at their centre, according to the US academic John Kasarda. The Department of Conservation will no longer purchase… Audio

Topics - nine out of ten people in Auckland want the number of poker machines in the poorest parts of the city cut, according to a Curia poll. Today we learned that another thirty schools have been… Audio

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