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After five long years of restoration, Big Ben, Britain's most iconic clock, is back in business.

We're joined by our regular Forest Correspondent, Dean Baigent-Mercer.

Waitangi, the scrapping of the media merger and the nudist judge are on the agenda.

If you are looking for advice on what to do with all your summer produce, Kylee Newton is here to help.

Marketers are targeting teens with cheap and addictive vapes, says Janet Hoek.

Annette Howey and her partner Steve sold their home and business in Timaru a few months ago. They moved into a campervan to live life on the open road.. The last time we spoke to them they were in Bannockburn. It's time for an update from the intrepid travellers...

Puzzles come with varying degrees of complexity... But what about a puzzle with close to 2,500 pieces, measuring 30 metres and weighing 25 tonnes? That's the challenging facing archaeologists as they piece together the wreck of a 15th Century ship found in a south Wales riverbank twenty years ago. The project's curator, Dr. Toby Jones, joins us from Newport, South Wales.

The Young Jazz Band-it Competitions are back. Now in it's second year, the national competition for High School and Intermediate School Jazz Bands is looking for your entries. Last year, some 230 high school musicians from around the country took part. Here to tell us all about the competitions is New Zealand jazz legend Rodger Fox.

A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon was shot down in US airspace by military jets on Saturday amid allegations that it was being used for surveillance. China denied accusations of spying, saying it was monitoring the weather. What are spy balloons exactly, and what's the history behind them? Dennis B. Desmond, Lecturer, Cyberintelligence and Cybercrime Investigations, University of the Sunshine Coast joins Karyn on the show.

The semantic bleaching of the word 'woke' with Dr Julia de Bres, sociolinguist and senior lecturer at Massey University.