Labour Day Podcast Options

8:10 AM.Peace-loving, egalitarian and wealthy: could the utopian environment of the ancient Indus Valley civilisation have been what caused its downfall? British science and history writer Andrew Robinson… Read more Audio

8:00 PM.A panel discussion about the media now and in the future. Read more Audio

11:10 AM.New music for a day off your labours with Australian music station Triple-J's content director. The expat Kiwi DJ Ollie Wards and host Colin Peacock bring us tracks from A$AP Rocky, Jamie XX, Leisure… Read more Audio

10:48 AM.Top Canadian magician and comedian in New Zealand for the Wellington Magic Convention. Audio

10:30 AM.American writer Walter Brasch on how Labor Day in the US is just another day off, its meaning lost in the past. Audio

10:20 AM.New Zealand journalist freelancing in Brazil, which is gearing up for the Olympics. Audio

10:10 AM."I'm talented. I'm hard-working. I'm blonde. So why can't I find a job in London?" Expat would-be broadcaster Alex Hazlehurst went public in August about not being able to find a media job there. She… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.Naomi Arnold is a Nelson-based freelance writer. At Featured.org.nz she collates outstanding feature articles from New Zealand and around the world and sends them out in a handy weekly email. We asked… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Expert in modern medical history undertaking the first major academic study of facial hair. Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Food sharing social media site set up in Wellington which is taking off around the country. Audio

8:30 AM.The BBC's North America Technology correspondent who has a grandstand view of the hot bed of innovation that is Silicon Valley. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Swiss futurist who is among many experts warning that machines are taking over our jobs. Audio

11:06 AM.Triple J content director Ollie Wards picks some tunes from New Zealanders (and a few Australians) doing well across the ditch. Read more Audio

10:38 AM.New Zealand is facing a housing crisis, but one solution could be to build and live in tiny homes. Andrew Morrison explains thinking big on keeping it small. Read more Audio

10:07 AM.The magazine is celebrating 25 years by looking forward another 25 to the big issues. Editor James Frankham on why we are not 100% pure. Audio

9:45 AM.What if you were able to take as many days off work as you feel you need - or deserve? Mark Gilbert analyses what Richard Branson's suggestion might mean. Audio

9:31 AM.Which country was the largest exporter of wine in 1960? We have the answer. Audio

9:30 AM.Author of "Socialism is Great!" Lijia Zhang has written about her own experience of working in a rocket factory back in the days of China under Chairman Mao - right through to today's fast growing… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Is giving up your job to help human-kind the right thing to do? Kiwi journalist Kim Vinnell did just that. Audio

8:50 AM.The All Blacks take on USA next weekend. Will this one-off game be a watershed moment for rugby in the US or might some Americans actually resent the intrusion of this foreign version of their own… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.This year there's been tensions in the Ukrane, IS has become more prominent and Ebola is spreading. But according to journalist Simon Kuper the world is in fact getting safer. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Wellington folk musician Peter Dyer on the life and legacy of the "father of folk" Pete Seeger. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Musician and academic Dr. Graeme Downes talks to Richard Langston about the legacy and influence of Lou Reed. Audio

11:10 AM.Eighty-six-year-old Irish poet Richard Murphy joins us from Sri Lanka, to reminisce about his time with friend, and fellow poet Seamus Heaney who recently passed away. We celebrate Heaney's… Read more Audio