Big declines in numbers of forest birds and native moths, revelations that kiore ate moa, and the discovery of Asian as well as European house mice in New Zealand are amongst the latest ecology news Read more Audio

Financial Economics Professor Stephen Haber argues that banking crises are not the product of 'unforeseen shocks', but rather of politics, and we get the banking systems that our political systems… Read more Audio

Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. His book… Read more Audio, Gallery

Have you ever had an affair? Have you ever thought about having an affair? Trust, the first novel by screenwriter Mike Bullen, explores the lives of two couples falling in and out of love. Mike Bullen… Read more Audio

There are just 3,200 tigers left in the world, compared with 100 thousand, a hundred years ago.  A team of Oxford University scientists is calling on fellow academics around the world to come up with… Read more Audio

Nobody told Philip Wells he would never walk again. He was 15 and in the Otara spinal unit following a rugby tackle that had gone badly wrong. It was 1979. Read more Audio

George Nepia's whanau are happy one of the jerseys the rugby great wore is to return to New Zealand. Audio