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David Robson is an award-winning science writer specialising in the extremes of the human brain, body and behaviour.

Tonight on The Panel Wallace is joined by panellists Kirsty Cameron and Phil O'Reilly discuss the increase in the average age of retirement since 2000. Also, they discuss table manners and whether it's okay to bring a baby to a comedy show.

In the film THE WAY, MY WAY, film and documentary producer and director, Bill Bennett tells the true story of his 800-kilometre-long pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago route through Spain based on his best-selling memoir of the same name.

The Axis Chord Progression is a run of four chords named after Aussie music-comedy trio Axis Of Awesome.

New media minister rolls in after PM's surprise reshuffle; TV news and current affairs on the way down here, but highly competitive across the Tasman.

Mary Argue is back guiding us through the latest weird and wonderful headlines from the world of science.

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen joins us once again as our Sunday Morning question master.

American University's distinguished professor of history, Alan Lichtman has accurately predicted the US presidential contest since 1982.

Over the last six years, parliament’s clerks have had to vet about 40,000 written questions each year. So how are written questions used and what are the democratic benefits?

This morning's top stories and other headlines

A great rendition of William Kethe's hymn All people that on earth do dwell begins this week's programme. You can also hear harvest hymns, and hymns of thanksgiving.

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A wrap of the day's big stories

All the top stories and other headlines from the day

Mike Howie shares some of his favourite music with Charlotte Ryan.

Band member Corin Tucker speaks to Charlotte Ryan from backstage in Philadelphia.

DARTZ join Charlotte Ryan in the studio before they head off on their first UK and Europe tour.

The top stories and other headlines at midday

The arrival of photography to New Zealand in 1848 was more about business than art. A cumbersome kit meant photographers needed carriages or horses to lug their gear across unsealed roads to sell their wares. These early images provide a valuable insight to the country's colonial era, with stunning portraits and landscapes now being presented in a …

Former soldier Christian Lewis had hit rock bottom and was so severely depressed he would shut himself in his flat for weeks. But one day he made an impulsive decision, setting himself the challenge of walking the entire coastline of the UK. Christian joins Susie to talk about his new book, Finding Hildasay, which explores how with just ten pounds …

New Zealand's volcanoes are world renowned, and most Kiwis are familiar with our big ones such as Ruapehu, Taranaki and Tarawera. But what about our lesser talked about volcanoes? GNS Science principal scientist Graham Leonard joins Susie to chat about some of the volcanic areas around the country that people are less familiar with - from Northland…

You could hardly avoid the gruesome spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial - it made the nightly news, but it made a much bigger splash on social media. But was there something else at play? Was Amber Heard the victim of an orchestrated campaign of misinformation? Alexi Mostrous of Tortoise Media is a London-based journalist who has previou…

New Zealand poet and doctor Glenn Colquhoun has released two new books of poetry in te reo Māori, both accompanied by soundtracks. He tells Susie Ferguson about the legacy of Māori oral poetry and the long process of writing songs he could finally "take to the marae".

Kiwi scientist and champion épée-fencer Dr Matt Baker is representing NZ at fencing in the final Olympic qualifying tournament in Dubai later today. Sydney-based Baker is Scientia Research Fellow in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South Wales, where he studies the molecular motor that makes bacteria sw…

A first of its kind one-to-one support programme for pre-school children showing signs of autism is about to be trialed in Wellington, with aspirations of going nationwide. Professor Josie Barbaro pioneered the most successful tool in the world for the very early detection of autism. Known as Social Attention and Communication Surveillance or SACS,…

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The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

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Samoa's government organises mass clean-ups and fumigation missions to combat dengue fever outbreak; The race to form the next government of Solomon Islands could be a tight one with no single party emerging from the election with enough seats to govern; The Marshall Islands has ratified a United Nation's agreement to fight illegal fishing; and con…

Samoa cleans up to tackle dengue fever outbreak

There's a 'tight race' to form the next Sols government.

Marshall Islands ratifies UN agreement to fight illegal fishing.

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

Concerns raised as PNG fails to set up human rights body.

The latest news in Cook Islands Maori (Te Reo Maori Kuki Airani) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

On Great Barrier Island the media landscape is bucking the national trend - it's flourishing

Dengue in Samoa; a new approach to elections mooted in Solomon Islands; PNG to look to Africa on how to contain illegal guns; and containing emissions from plastics.

Featuring new music from New Zealand band Ha the Unclear, a 2022 track from Adelaide-based band Workhorse, and the debut album from artist Mandy, entitled Lawn Girl.

Wellington NZ commissioned the creation of 20 bronze pigeons statues to celebrate the city's business community. But now, two of the statues have disappeared, leaving some Wellingtonians all aflutter.

Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin is back with Short-Cuts for another week.

This Saturday, in the village of Waimauku, hundreds of guinea pigs will be gussying up to be named Mr or Ms Auckland at the Auckland Guinea Pig Show.

ABC Wantok Program for 26 April 2024.

One of the last rehab soldier farms in Wairarapa has been sold for forestry, and the farm gear is going under the hammer. Gianina Schwanecke is at the on-farm sale and finds out why the owner is selling up.

The latest news from Melanesia.

Steve Muggeridge's beloved Clydesdales have returned to Taranaki. Not far from the original family stud, at the base of the maunga, he chats about the changing use of the heavy horse and hitches a pair up to a vintage wagon for a ride along the mountain's flanks.

A round-up of the week's agricultural news.

Panadda Chittock is the pastoral care co-ordinator at Thomas Brothers Orchards in Riwaka. She supports about 80 Recognised Seasonal Employer or RSE workers from Vanuatu and Samoa who work on the orchard.

This week Country Life is behind a team of Clydesdale horses on a vintage wagon, finding out about the increasingly rare breed, and heads to a sale of farm gear in Wairarapa, where one of the last local rehab soldier farms has been sold into forestry.

Latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.