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Bryan reads texts and emails received from listeners.

Resident Astronomer Alan Gilmore joins Bryan to discuss scientist's latest discovery, an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that wiped out our reptilian friends 66 millions years ago.

Peter Lampp is our sports commentator this week. He is with Bryan to chat about the fall out of the Mankad controversy, the end of the Sunwolves and the Hurricanes' inability to compete under pressure.

In 2018 Laura Morrison began her epic odyssey, driving her 1958 Morris Minor from Aberdeen to Capetown and thus fulfilling her late father's dream. Laura joins Bryan to discuss how it all came together.

Desiderata (which is latin for - ("things desired") written by the American Poet: Max Erhmann Max Ehrmann of Terre Haute, Indiana, wrote the work in the early 1920s, starting in 1921, but he did not use any title. He registered for his US copyright in 1927 via its first phrase. In 1933 he distributed the poem in the form of a Christmas card, evidently entitling it "Desiderata" because a few days later he wrote in his Journal that a Kansas editor criticized his "Desiderata". Several years before 1942 a depressed woman gave psychiatrist Merrill Moore a copy of the poem without the name of the author, allowing him to hand out over 1,000 unattributed copies to his patients and soldiers during World War II. After Ehrmann died in 1945, his widow first published the work in 1948 in The Poems of Max Ehrmann. The Reverend Frederick Kates handed out about 200 unattributed copies to his congregation at Old Saint Paul's Church, Baltimore, during 1959 or 1960.

They're putting a piano back on Karekare beach: You might be familier with the last time a piano ended up on that wonderful piece of coastline on the other side of the Waitakere Ranges from Auckland city - it had a starring role in an Academy Award winning movie directed by Jane Campion. The good news is Jane Campion is making a sequel - but Rebecca Tansley has made film about the making of the ballet adaptation of the original film - and that film is going out on general release - so -= why not put a piano back on the beach. Well - Rebecca's on the line now to explain..

This week's cultural ambassador is celebrating the electronic dance music of Detroit's 3rd wave, DJ B-low - a k a Paul Berrington shares with us the latest generation of 'dad' music.

Bryan reads texts and emails received from listeners.

The first of this year's Songs of the Spirit - with the Palmerston North methodist lay preacher, John Thornley.

Bryan reads texts and emails received from listeners.