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Recent items from Summer Times
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Museum stop: Lakes District Museum and Gallery
10:45 AM.Our museum stop today is in the central Otago town of Arrowtown. The Lakes District Museum and Gallery tells the story of early Maori life in the region and outlines the pioneering days of the… Read more Audio
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Summer food ideas from Sarah Tuck
10:30 AM.On a wet summer day, food writer Sarah Tuck likes to make pasta with peak-season tomatoes, eggplant and zucchini. Read more Audio
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Summer walking
10:10 AM.While beaches, baches, lakes and relaxing might be on the top of your holiday list, there's nothing like a decent walk to discover more of an area's scenic highlights, history and wildlife. Shaun… Read more Audio
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Radio silence - Canterbury Mountain Radio ending service
9:40 AM.For almost 60 years the Canterbury Mountain Radio Service has provided a lifeline to trampers and hunters in some of the most remote parts of the South Island. But later this year the service will… Read more Audio
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History Never Repeats - 50 years of Split Enz
9:28 AM.It's 50 years since a little known Auckland art rock band - then called Split Ends - took to the stage and played at the country's first ever big music festival. The band later went onto be known as… Read more Audio
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World sheep shearing record broken
9:18 AM.A twenty year old world record for sheep shearing was finally broken this week in a Central North Island woolshed. Simon Goss and Jamie Skiffington have shorn a combined 1410 lambs in eight hours… Read more Audio
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Coromandel faces clean up but more bad weather ahead
9:08 AM.Conditions have eased on the Coromandel but the region will be moving into recovery mode after two days of wild weather. Heavy rain and high winds closed roads, cut power and brought down slips. The… Read more Audio
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Urban Jumble Daily Quiz
12:00 PM.We've come up with a daily quiz to test both your word and geographical skill. Every day we're giving you three words. Within each word are letters which spell out a New Zealand town or city. Each… Read more
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60th National Surfing Champs start this weekend
11:45 AM.Since 1963 the National Surfing Championships have been held around New Zealand in spots like Mount Maunganui, Gisborne, Dunedin and Taranaki and on Sunday it will start at Piha west of Auckland The… Read more Audio
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Designer hideaways
11:35 AM.Author Catherine Foster takes a look at 20 of Aotearoa's most unique and thoughtfully designed holiday homes in her new book Small Holiday Houses. It features homes in a variety of locations across… Read more Audio
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On the road with paediatrician Dr Jin Russell
11:08 AM.Auckland paediatrician Jin Russell has an intimate working knowledge of New Zealand's health system – and its inequalities – through her research and work at Starship Hospital. She chats to Anna… Read more Video, Audio
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Museum stop: Coromandel School of Mines and Historical Museum
10:45 AM.Today we're stopping in the small town of Coromandel and the local museumhoused in the historic School of Mines building. The museum traces the history of gold mining and kauri logging and their… Read more Audio
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Walking to the moon and back
10:30 AM.Last year a group of New Zealanders collectively walked to the moon and back over three times. . 'Walk 12-hundred kilometres' is the country's largest and fastest growing walking network and… Read more Audio
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Andy Cleverley: a single dad living his bus life
10:10 AM.After being trapped for hours on the 22nd floor of a hotel following the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, Andy Cleverley decided life had to change. Chucking in his corporate life, he bought an old… Read more Video, Audio
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Central Otago's soapbox stargazer
9:40 AM.Professor Brian Boyle is a retired astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner, who's passion for astronomy has led him to build his own private observatory in his backyard. But when he's not stargazing at… Read more Audio
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Beware of cyber crime
9:35 AM.Cyber crime is an increasing threat in New Zealand and with summer sales still underway the public is being urged to take extra care. Last year CERT NZ reported a jump in cyber fraud in the three… Read more Audio
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Whopping sea temps as severe marine heatwave hits
9:20 AM.A severe marine heatwave is due to peak today with sea surface temperatures around the bottom of the South Island and Stewart Island expected to be a whopping four degrees or more above average. The… Read more Audio
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Coromandel bears brunt of wild weather
9:08 AM.It's been a wet and stormy night in many parts of the Upper North Island. Coromandel seems to have borne the brunt of the wild weather - power is out to several hundred homes, and heavy rain has… Read more Audio
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Urban Jumble Daily Quiz
12:00 PM.Every day we're giving you three words. Within each word are letters which spell out a New Zealand town or city. Each letter can only be used once. While some words may have more than one answer, the… Read more
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UB40's Robin Campbell on touring New Zealand
11:35 AM.The British band UB40 first toured New Zealand in 1981 and are currently in the country performing a series of six concerts. Guitarist Robin Campbell has been there from the beginning, when what would… Read more Audio
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On the road with actor, comedian and teacher Karen O'Leary
11:08 AM.Wellington-based actor, comedian and teacher Karen O'Leary takes us on today's summer roadtrip and plays her favourite summer tunes. Karen found fame as officer O'Leary in the cult classic What We Do… Read more Audio
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Museum stop - The Kauri Museum Matakohe
10:46 AM.About 90 minutes drive north of Auckland on the way to Dargaville, the Kauri Museum is Northland's largest undercover attraction. It houses the world's largest collection of kauri gum and kauri… Read more Audio
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Summer BBQing with Sharp Black Riki Kerekere
10:32 AM.Riki Kerekere is a man who likes to sharpen up his knives and slap some meat on the BBQ. He's the captain of the Sharp Blacks - our national butcher team. He joins Anna to share some of his top summer… Read more Audio
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Rugby research promises safety gamechanger
10:14 AM.A group of Otago University researchers are about to release their initial findings from a ground-breaking study into the effects of head-knocks and concussion among rugby players at all levels of the… Read more Audio
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Summer reading picks from a Wellington bookseller
9:40 AM.Relaxing with a good book is a real summer treat. Melissa Oliver from Wellington's Unity Books recommends a few top page-turners and upcoming releases. Read more Audio