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Australian sporting journalist Shannon Byrne joins Bryan to discuss the reaction to the death of Shane Warne, the beginning of the Women's World Cup cricket tournament and Finals footy in Darwin.

Aotearoa artists turn out a staggering amount of work, of a consistently high quality. The Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare O Rehua Whanganui is celebrating ten years of that work in its region with an exhibition titled Whanganui Arts in Review: A Survey of Past Award Winners 2011-2021. It's a look back at the Whanganui Arts Review's main award winners from the last decade and includes the work of 23 local artists. Bryan is joined by the Sarjeant Gallery's Curator And Public Programs Manager Greg Donson and Whanganui based artist Glen Hayward.

Motoko Kakubayashi joins us from Tokyo with an update on the latest news from Japan and an introduction to the minefeild that is schoolbags for japanese children!

Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Professor of Film and Popular Culture at Auckland University of Technology joins us to chat about the true rise of streaming and SVOD (subscription video on demand ) platforms like Netflix, Apple TV, and Amazon prime as content producers.

University of Canterbury Ahorangi Professor Bronwyn Hayward, is a coordinating lead author of the 2022 IPCC report and co-leading the global chapter on Cities and infrastructure. She joins us to talk about how we might shape our cities in the future.

Professor Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh and the National Museums Scotland joins us to talk about the recent discovery on the Isle of Skye of a fossil of the largest Jurassic pterosaur yet known.

Over the last month or two, there has been a lot of press coverage of the new James Webb Space Telescope, and quite a lot of that coverage has mentioned the fact that the telescope is going to "sit at a Lagrange point". Dillon Mayhew talks us through this mathematical concept.

Zoe George is tonight's sportscaster.

NIWA's Craig Stevens is just back from another trip to the Ross Ice Shelf - discovering an under-ice river and some unexpected marine life.

Our overseas correspondent in Canada, Peggy Revell joins us from Medicine Hat, Alberta.