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Book review: Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Craig Gamble
Anne Else reviews Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Craig Gamble, published by VUP Audio
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Book Critic: Catherine Ross
Catherine Ross believes that books start conversations. She reviews her latest picks with Jesse. Audio
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Book review: Too Much Money
Paul Diamond reviews Too Much Money: How Wealth Disparities Are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand by Max Rashbrooke, published by Bridget Williams Books. Audio
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100 things we have lost in the Internet age - Pamela Paul
Audio 29 Nov 2021Pamela Paul, the editor of the New York Times Book Review, tells us about the ways the Internet has changed us. Audio
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Book review: Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee
Louise Ward of Wardini Books in Havelock North reviews Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee, and Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket. Audio
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Judith Collins: 20 years of the Crusher in Parliament
Colourful and controversial, with a killer eyebrow raise - she may be best known as "Crusher" but Judith Collins' nearly 20 years in politics cannot be summed up so succinctly. Audio
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Broadway's 'greatest lyricist' Stephen Sondheim dead at 91
One of the most influential composers of the 20th century, Sondheim wrote classics such as West Side Story, Gypsy and Sweeney Todd. Audio
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Book review - Crocodile Tears by Alan Carter
David Hill reviews Crocodile Tears by Alan Carter, published by Fremantle Press. Audio
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In brief: News from around the Pacific
Mass vaccination events planned in American Samoa, an excluded by-election candidate in Samoa wants a legal review, and a project to foster women in leadership.
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Book review: Rick Stein at Home by Rick Stein
Audio 25 Nov 2021Louise O'Brien reviews Rick Stein at Home by Rick Stein, published by Penguin Random House. Audio
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Movie Review - A Boy Called Christmas
Audio 24 Nov 2021A boy called Christmas is based on a popular children's book, and stars Dame Maggie Smith, Sally Hawkins, Jim Broadbent and Toby Jones. Audio
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Book review: Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters
Elisabeth Easther reviews Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters, published by Allen and Unwin Audio
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Book Critic: Claire Mabey
Claire reviews Nicky Pellegrino's latest, To Italy, With Love, Lynda Hallinan's, The Joy of Gardening and The Fortnight in September by R C Sherriff. Audio
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Businesses test vaccine pass to see if it makes the cut
Shaggy-haired Aucklanders can finally get a haircut this week as they get ready for life out of lockdown. Audio
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Book review - Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
Phil Vine reviews Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas, published by Allen & Unwin. Audio
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Today's sports news: What you need to know
In today's sports news - A good year for Lydia Ko, Sophie Devine honoured for her Big Bash season and Pochettino open to Man U job.
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Book review: The Family by Naomi Krupitsky
Audio 22 Nov 2021Laura Caygill reviews The Family by Naomi Krupitsky, published by Penguin Random House. Audio
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Fergus Barrowman: Giving writers a sporting chance
Preeminent literary magazine Sport was founded by writers Damien Wilkins, Elizabeth Knox, Nigel Cox and their Victoria University Press (VUP) publisher Fergus Barrowman in 1988. Sport folded in 2020… Audio
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Alina Chan: finding the origins of Covid-19
The origin of Covid-19 still remains a mystery that may never be solved. Was it the result of a spillover from animals to humans, or the result of a lab leak? The idea that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could… Audio
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Exactly 100 years after the birth of radio in NZ, Sarah Johnston looks back at its early decades
Sound historian Sarah Johnston explores 100 years of radio in a talk at the National Library, focusing on the early decades and the innovative World War II radio Mobile Unit recordings. Audio
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Unity Book review: 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next by Jeanette Winterson
Ash Davida Jane from Unity Books Wellington reviews 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next by Jeanette Winterson, published by Jonathan Cape. Audio
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Book Review: Out Here: An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQU+ Writers from Aotearoa edited by Emma Barnes and Chris Tse :
Michelle Rahurahu reviews Out Here: An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQU+ Writers from Aotearoa edited by Emma Barnes and Chris Tse, published by Auckland University Press. Audio
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Queen of Muck book so popular, release date is brought forward
Audio 17 Nov 2021Isaac Thackray talks to Jesse about his first book for children and why it's become so popular. Audio
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Book review: Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Bel Monypenny from Scorpio Books in Christchurch reviews Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout, published by Penguin RandomHouse. Audio
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Book review: Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
Leah McFall reviews Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020 by David Sedaris, published by Hachette Aotearoa NZ Leah says: A second astringent instalment of diaries from America's foremost humorist… Audio
