Irene Pink and Donna Brookbanks highlight some of the funnier stories of the past week.
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Sports commentator Dana Johanssen
Sports commentator Dana Johanssen
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Around the motu: Jared McCulloch in Queenstown
Jared updates on the storm damage to Fiordland's Great Walks, a new record average asking house price in Central Otago and Southern Lakes, an arrest over cell tower damage in Wanaka and the solar lights in Queenstown's skies.
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Book review: Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith
Holly Walker reviews Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith, published by Penguin Random House.
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The pair of donor lungs powering Kath Cross
The 52 year old Rotorua woman is a keen mountain biker - prior to her surgery she would spend hours in the Redwoods forests.
From nine to noon every weekday, Kathryn Ryan talks to the people driving the news - in New Zealand and around the world. Delve beneath the headlines to find out the real story, listen to Nine to Noon's expert commentators and reviewers and catch up with the latest lifestyle trends on this award-winning programme.