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This week Nicola Toki and Jesse discuss the Green Sea Turtle - they are large marine reptiles found globally in tropical and subtropical waters but are also regular visitors to, and recently discovered residents of, Aotearoa.

Bella Donnachie, Custom Service Team Leader at Auckland One Rail, talks with Bryan Crump about the public piano at  Waitematā Station and the positive effect it has on commuters when it's played. 

Martin Bosley, renowned chef and owner of Yellow Brick Seafoods shares his recipe for Japanese-stye poached chicken salad with smashed cucumber. Recipe below! Serves 4 For the chicken 2 large skinless chicken breasts, around 500-600g 3cm piece of ginger, sliced 2 spring onions 1 tsp salt For the smashed cucumber 2 Lebanese or one telegraph cucumber 1 tsp salt 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar 1 tsp sugar ½...

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NZ Live is your chance to enjoy an intimate music session with songs and chat. This week Jesse is joined by Tim Mahon and the Kerfuffle.

Afternoons Film Critic Dominic Corry is with Jesse in the Auckland Studio to share what he's been watching; The Social Reckoning and NAZA (both in cinemas now)

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Why New Zealand's youth unemployment is surging; Health and Disability Commissioner still faces complaint backlog; Wrapping the week in politics with Paddy Gower.

Time for freaky Friday ...this is our home for your tales of the unexpected. We're talking ghosts, premonitions, the spooky, and the unexplainable. If you have a story to tell, then get in touch on 2101 or Jesse@rnz.co.nz.

In 1995, 18-year old American Christa Pike was sentenced to the death after murdering 19-year old Colleen Slemmer. For the last 31 years she's been on death row, until last month when she was set to become to the first women executed in Tennessee in 200 years. But, after surviving two lethal injections - Pike is reportedly now up and walking in hospital, and while a bit muddled is also talking. So...

We want to start today's show with some good news .. it's Friday after all and we love celebrating New Zealanders doing great things. Dr Dominic Moseley is one such New Zealander .. last night he won a big award at the KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards .. for his work turning superconductivity research into technology that can be used in fusion energy. Dominic chats to Jesse.

An update on the latest news and results from RNZ's sports team.

Patrick Gower joins Guyon Espiner to discuss the week in politics.

An update on the latest news from RNZ's rural team.

The latest news from RNZ's business team.

A growing number of New Zealanders are making complaints to the Health and Disability Commissioner. The Health and Disability Commissioner says it's finally getting on top of a huge backlog of complaints, but more than 1,300 are still waiting to be assessed, and its funding has been cut again. Health and Disability Commissioner, Morag McDowell spoke to Guyon Espiner.

New Zealand's youth unemployment rate has climbed to levels last seen around the Global Financial Crisis, and economic recovery alone may not solve the problem. The unemployment and underutilisation rates are being driven by a perfect storm of a sluggish economy, business uncertainty, AI and unhelpful policy responses, according to the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, which has just rel...

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Bledisloe test week, New Zealand Rugby's legal battle with their Australian League counterparts, and Bathurst this Sunday.

Te Radar and James Nokise with a lighter take on some stories of the week.

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Samantha discusses plans to revitalise Nelson's waterfront, calls for Sam's Creek to be included in Kahurangi National Park, the selection of a site for a weather radar to fill in a black spot at the top of the south and a local community raising funds to help a Nepalese woman fund cancer surgery.

Stella Chrisostomou of VOLUME Books reviews The Box: A Novel by Mandy-Suzanne Wong (Pan Macmillan), Spent Light by Lara Pawson (Text Publishing), Olivetti by Allie Millington (Pan Macmillan).

The journalist, broadcaster and writer's spent much of her career finding the humour and sharp observations about the chaos of modern life - embracing social media to do so. But then it all got too much. 

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