The Show Must Go On - today's edition of The Country is brought to you with the sound of Freddie Mercury and Queen. On this day in 1991 Mercury died.
But on with the show - Prime Minister John Key ponders the economic and social fallout from the earthquakes and he suggests interest rates may have bottomed out.
We catch up with former Fonterra chairman and newly appointed chairman of Rabobank New Zealand Sir Henry van der Heyden.
Today's panel Doug Avery and Shane McManaway grapple with cost - financial, physical and emotional - of the earthquakes to the rural communities of Kaikoura, North Canterbury and Marlborough.
And we take our monthly look at the rural real estate market with the GM of PGG Wrightson Real Estate Peter Newbold.