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1:15 World Wheel Chair Rugby qualification tournament underway in Wellington

Eight wheel chair rugby teams from around the world are in Wellington to play for a spot at the Paralympics in Paris later this year.

There are just three spots available for qualifiers and the battle for those got underway yesterday.

The tournament began with the New Zealand team versing the Netherlands.

We check in with Event Director Dr Catriona McBean on day two.

The Wheel Blacks playing Australia in Tokyo.

Photo: RNZ / Joe Porter

1:25 Climate change changing the way farm animals are cared for

Air conditioned indoor enclosures may well become the norm for beef and dairy herds in Australia as the temperatures keep rising across the continent.

It's predicted that by 2030 more than a third of Australia's cows will need to be housed indoors to protect them from the extreme heat

Karen Romano is National Feeding and Farm Systems Lead at Dairy Australia, and has been looking at the move to 'containment farming' for the future.

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Photo: RNZ / Alexa Cook

1:35 The Food Bowl of Plenty exhibition to open this weekend

This weekend the Western Bay Museum in Katikait is launching a new exhibition paying homage to the Bay of Plenty's food production.

Aptly named "The Food Bowl of Plenty", the exhibition coincides with the third annual 'Flavours of Plenty Festival' which showcases culinary highlights in the Bay of Plenty.

Paula Gaelic has spent the last six months scouring her region to find the stories and history behind lesser known growers and makers, all innovating in their chosen fields. She speaks to Jesse.

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Photo: RNZ/Carol Stiles

1:45 Great album: Knucklebones by Strawpeople

Today's link 3 winner will get a copy of Knucklebones by Strawpeople, who just last weekend were performing at WOMAD in Taranaki.

Knucklebones was released last year, a bit of a reunion for Paul Casserly and Fiona McDonald who originally formed Strawpeople in the late 80s  along with Mark Tierney.

Fiona McDonald and Paul Casserly of the electronic music duo Strawpeople

Fiona McDonald and Paul Casserly of the electronic music duo Strawpeople Photo: Strawpeople / Facebook

2:10 Music Critic: Zac Arnold

Today Zac talks to Jesse about Delaney Davidson's new track, Out of My Head and Easter At The Rsc from Jim Nothing, a project from James Sullivan.

2:30 NZ Sporting History: Emma Twigg

For today's NZ Sporting history we speak to one of Aotearoa's rowing greats, Emma Twigg.

She's one of our most successful women's rowers claiming gold in Tokyo 2020 for the single scull event.

It was not just a decisive win but also an Olympic record.

The podium finish was the culmination of years of hard graft and came after a run of disappointing results, and stepping away from the sport. We speak to Emma about her career and where her qualification for Paris is at.

Emma Twigg NZ Women's Single Scull. World Championships, Austria, 2019.

Photo: PHOTOSPORT

3:10 Link 3

3:15 Your Money with Mary Holm 

Today Mary Holm talks to Jesse about the great year Kiwisaver has just had.

She talks about how there's a lot of talk when the funds are not doing well, but it's pretty quiet when the Kiwisaver investments are on the up.

3:35 Spoken Feature BBC Witness

In 1992 off the coast of Ireland, a Swiss geology student accidentally discovered the longest set of footprints made by the first four-legged animals to walk on earth.

They pointed to a new date for the key milestone in evolution when the first amphibians left the water 385 million years ago. The salamander-type animal which was the size of a basset hound lived when County Kerry was semi-arid, long before dinosaurs, as Iwan Stössel explains to Josephine McDermott.

Artwork of a primitive tetrapod.

Artwork of a primitive tetrapod. Photo: Christian Jegou/Science Photo Library

3:45 The pre-Panel