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Is the universal basic income the answer to inequality?
8:31 AM.Would you like to be paid a basic income, no matter what? In the UK, a proposed trial would see 30 people paid an unconditional sum of about NZ$3295 a month for two years to see what effect it has on… Read more Audio
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Vinod Balachandran: mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer
8:12 AM.New treatments for pancreatic cancer are urgently needed. Yet, results from a small study published recently suggest that bespoke messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines that prime a patient's immune system to… Read more Audio
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Organic gardener Kath Irvine: time to plant fruit trees
11:40 AM.Nomad gardener and The Edible Backyard author Kath Irvine has parked up the house truck and settled down for winter in Golden Bay. Read more Audio
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Suzie Miller: legal injustice against women centre stage
11:05 AM.Australian Suzie Miller's play Prima Facie has been called "one of the most electrifying pieces of theatre on Broadway" and this year won an Olivier Award following a Westend run. Read more Audio
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Adventurer Thor F. Jensen: circumnavigating New Guinea
10:35 AM.Danish adventurer, filmmaker and writer Thor F. Jensen completed a 6300km circumnavigation of the Island of New Guinea in a traditional outrigger sailing canoe.- a world-first achieved in… Read more Video, Audio
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Dame Penelope Wilton on her new film
10:05 AM.English actor Dame Penelope Wilton's warm smile will be familiar to fans of Downton Abbey, Doctor Who and the Ricky Gervais series Afterlife. Her new film The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a… Read more Video, Audio
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Samuel Mehr: thinking differently about music
9:35 AM.Do we hear music differently across cultures? What about between the sexes? And does singing to a baby improve their mental health? These are some of the questions The Music Lab's Principal… Read more Audio
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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: Using iconicism and satire to combat violence
9:05 AM.When a major league US baseball team recently picked a fight with a group of queer and trans 'nuns', they struck out. After announcing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence would be honoured with a… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Tom Barraclough: are your social media threads under threat?
8:45 AM.This week the government released a Safer Online Services and Media Platforms "discussion document" proposing to regulate online content the same way other media is regulated. Read more Audio
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Thomas Hertog: Stephen Hawking's final radical theory
8:10 AM. Once upon a time, perhaps, there was no time. Read more Audio
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Dr Rachel Zoffness: Managing chronic pain is about treating entire body
2:08 PM.About 1 in 6 New Zealanders live with chronic pain. Psychologist Dr Rachel Zoffness believes that medical treatment of chronic pain often fails because it is based on a flawed model of how pain… Read more Audio
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Listener Feedback for 27 May 2023
11:55 AM.Listener Feedback for 27 May 2023. Audio
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Supervolcano unrest under Lake Taupo
11:43 AM.About 1800 years ago a powerful super-eruption of the Taupo volcano resulted in a plume of ash that coated lakeside areas in tens of metres of pumice and ash and a lava flow that spread up to 90… Read more Audio
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Rachel Ward's farm: from climate despair to hope
11:06 AM.During Australia's "Black Summer" of 2019-20 a bush fire nearly destroyed the farm where actress Rachel Ward and her actor husband Bryan Brown had been raising cattle for 33 years. This head-on… Read more Video, Audio
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The lives and times of musician Tim Finn
10:05 AM.New Zealand musician Tim Finn hasn't toured in a decade but something "clicked" when he played a small afternoon show in Sydney recently. This September, the Split Enz co-founder will perform some of… Read more Video, Audio
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Alison Ballance: the rediscovery and recovery of the takahe
9:40 AM.From being assumed extinct, to a healthy population of over 500 birds, the resurrection of the takahe is an incredible story. Read more Audio
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Sam Sachdeva: navigating New Zealand's relationship with China
8:42 AM.Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (who turns 100 the day we air) is talking about the potential for war between the United States and China. Increasingly, such talk about our biggest… Read more Audio
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Prof. Simon Chapman: What the history of smoking should warn us about vaping
8:12 AM.When smoking first became popular it was heavily marketed as being cool. We were even told it was healthy. The results have not been so good. Simon Chapman, an Emeritus Professor at University of… Read more Audio
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Dr Jonathan Howard: why US doctors spread Covid disinformation
3:00 PM.Dr Jonathan Howard says over 800,000 Americans would be alive today if the US had taken New Zealand's Covid approach. Read more Audio
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Danyl McLauchlan: Hannah Arendt and the loneliness of modernity
11:40 AM.Scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week, the life and work of influential twentieth century philosopher Hannah Arendt, whose books… Read more Audio
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Robert Bartholomew: what caused Havana Syndrome
11:05 AM.Between 2016 and 2018, dozens of North American diplomats stationed in Havana, Cuba, reported an array of health complaints which coincided with hearing strange sounds. Read more Audio
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Playing favourites: Stuart McKenzie & Miranda Harcourt
10:05 AM.Husband and wife duo Dame Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie have become central to the film and theatre world. It's all in the family: while Miranda's mother Kate is one of Aotearoa's most… Read more Audio
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Falconer Noel Hyde: rescuing karearea, ruru and barn owls
9:35 AM.Noel Hyde is one of New Zealand's most respected wildlife taxidermists, but it's with live birds as a falconer he's now making his mark, helping save karearea, ruru and barn owls. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Doron Semu: making siapo and a space for queer Pasifika youth
9:10 AM.Auckland nurse Doron Semu is using a traditional Sāmoan art form to bring together LGBTQ+ Pasifika youth. In his mid-20s, feeling disconnected from his Sāmoan heritage, Doron learnt how to make the… Read more Video, Audio