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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.

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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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.

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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.

Latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

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.

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.

Successive governments have claimed crack downs on youth vaping but retailers are flouting the law, with just one prosecution on the books. Retailers have until the end of the year to phase out single-use products, but academics say MPs' fears vape manufacturers will just adapt are justified. In this week's Focus on Politics, Political Reporter Ann…

Tonight on The Panel Wallace is joined by panellists Kirsty Cameron and Phil O'Reilly discuss Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction being overturned in New York. Plus, they discuss whether the fast-track approvals bills is taking us back to 'Muldoon era politics' or preventing an 'obstruction economy'.

Tonight on The Panel Wallace is joined by panellists Kirsty Cameron and Phil O'Reilly discuss Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction being overturned in New York. Plus, they discuss whether the fast-track approvals bills is taking us back to 'Muldoon era politics' or preventing an 'obstruction economy'.

In breaking news, the country's public hospitals have been given a target to save a total of 105 million dollars by July. Te Whatu Ora released this figure to RNZ this afternoon after a series of leaks about which health districts faced what targets.

Asia correspondent Per Elinder Liljas speaks to Lisa Owen about the US Secretary of State's visit to China, North Korea strengthening ties with Iran and extreme temperatures hitting parts of Asia.

News from the business sector, including a market report.

The Night-Mea is back for what may possibly be her last boxing bout in Aotearoa. Mea Motu will step into the ring tonight at ABA Stadium in Auckland tonight where she has gone up two weight classes for the non title bout. Sports reporter Jonty Dine speaks to Lisa Owen.