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8:09 AM.The Calabrian Mafia is now a “monstrous global organization”, eclipsing Cosa Nostra in Sicily and Camorra from Naples, author Alex Perry says. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Kate Camp is the author of six collections of poetry published by Victoria University Press, the most recent of which is The internet of things (2017). She's won the New Zealand Book Award for The… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Peter Wells is a fiction and non-fiction writer, and a filmmaker. His first book, Dangerous Desires, won the Reed Fiction Award, the NZ Book Award, and PEN Best New Book in Prose in 1992. His memoir… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Australian writer Joanna Murray-Smith has written more than 20 plays and they have been translated and performed in 30 countries around the world. Her play, Honour, has been produced in more than… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Professor Larissa Behrendt is an Eualeyai/Kamillaroi woman, Professor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney, and is admitted to the Supreme Court of the ACT and NSW as a barrister. Behrendt… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.This week, the first physical memorial to a New Zealand veteran of the Spanish Civil War will be unveiled in Cromwell. The plaque, which has been funded by a group of practicing and retired NZ… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Sir Lloyd Geering, the controversial theologian famously charged with heresy, has turned 100, and finds he’s a lot more optimistic about the human race. Read more Audio

8:40 AM.A bioplastic modelled on the nest material of a tiny native Australian bee could replace some regular plastic in aviation, electrical and construction products. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Kapka Kassabova was born and raised in Bulgaria, emigrating with her family to New Zealand in the late 1980s. In her late teens and twenties she published two poetry collections: All Roads Lead to the… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Alex Fegan is a documentary filmmaker who has made two features with wide release - Older Than Ireland (2015) and The Irish Pub (2013). Older Than Ireland won Best Documentary at the Galway Film… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Dame Carol Robinson is a chemist who has pioneered the application of mass spectrometry techniques to problems in chemical biology. Her groundbreaking research on the three-dimensional structure of… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Cartoonist, graphic novelist, writer and illustrator Mimi Pond started at National Lampoon magazine in the late 1970s. She writes for television, and penned the first full-length broadcast episode of… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Historian and academic James Belich has a large body of work, focusing particularly on the New Zealand Wars and Maori and Pakeha relations. His book The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Poet, performer and game-maker Harry Josephine Giles grew up on Orkney, Scotland, and now lives in Edinburgh where they founded spoken words platform Inky Fingers, co-directs the quarterly performance… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) is well underway, with two expeditions completed and one in progress. At this trip's half-way mark, the expedition ship JOIDES Resolution called in at… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Londoner Lydia Syson is an award-winning author of historical and political fiction for young adults. After an early career as a BBC World Service Radio producer, she turned from the spoken to the… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Kim catches up with NZ Festival artistic director Shelagh Magadza about how the 2018 festival - her last - is shaping up. Audio

11:04 AM.Feminist Zoe Coombs Marr is described as one of Australia's weirdest and wildest comedians. In her award-winning show, Trigger Warning, she becomes her alter-ego, Dave, a sexist, second-rate stand-up… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Nina Tonga is an art historian and Curator Pacific Art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongowera. She joins Kim to talk about the exhibition, Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists, opening this… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.What makes a house a home? During Geoff Sobelle's show, Home, a house appears and the audience watches as generations of residents move in and live their lives. We witness them as they experience love… Read more Audio