Anna Thomas
Building up: recruiting more women into construction
The push to attract more women into construction jobs is ramping up. With the sector suffering a serious skill shortage and its biggest recruitment period approaching, advocates say more needs to be… Audio
Midday News for 28 January 2020
Further calls to get New Zealanders out of Wuhan province. Law changes limit how much wheel clampers can charge. Audio
Midday News for 27 January 2020
NBA superstar Kobe Bryant killed in a helicopter crash; Airport screening for the Wuhan virus begins. Audio
Midday News for 24 January 2020
Testing for the coronavirus is expected to be set up by the end of next week and two fatal car accidents occur within hours of each other near Taupo overnight. Audio
Midday News for 23 January 2020
National says the Government needs to do better in its response to the deadly Coronavirus, Labour looks ahead to its re-election campaign at the annual caucus meeting. Audio
Midday News for 22 January 2020
The Kiingitanga flag at Ihumatao comes down, indicating a resolution has been met, the World Health Organisation gears up its response to a deadly virus. Audio
Midday News for 21 January 2020
Chinese New Zealanders reconsider travel after the outbreak of a deadly virus in China. Northland farmers prepare for drought conditions. Audio
Midday News for Monday 20 January 2020
Three laptops are stolen in a robbery of National's headquaters . Confusion over why a tsunami siren was triggered in the Bay of Plenty last night. Audio
2020 Heart Kids Camp
This week children with congenital heart defects are attending a camp in Auckland. Audio
Long Range Weather Forecast for 24 December 2019
Long Range Weather Forecast for 24 December 2019 Audio
Midday News for 24 December 2019
Napier councillors' social media won't be monitored without their knowledge. An Orca whale gets tangled in a crayfish line off Northland. Audio
Midday News for 23 December 2019
The Whakaari White Island death toll reaches 17. A cartoon joking about the Samoa measles epidemic is judged gratuitously hurtful and discriminatory. Audio
Randy Newman to tour NZ for the first time
Randy Newman has won almost everything there is to win over the course of his storied musical career, but has never toured New Zealand before. He'll add that to his list of accomplishments when he… Audio
The evolution of climate change media coverage
Visiting Canadian professor Robert Hackett is currently in the country as a short-term Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury's Erskine program. He is an expert on media coverage… Audio
How daydreams help shape our sense of self
Psychologist Eve Blouin-Hudon is an expert on creativity and imagination at Carleton University in Ottawa and has studied daydreams at length. Audio
Keith Quinn on the Rugby World Cup
Celebrated New Zealand rugby commentator Keith Quinn joins the show to look at the latest developments at Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan and the impact the All Blacks' cancelled pool match against… Audio
Kurt Cobain's Unplugged cardigan set to fetch $200,000
For the second time in four years, the iconic green cardigan worn by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana's MTV Unplugged concert will head to the auction block later this month, with the pre-auction minimum… Video, Audio
The rise of Germany's new ultranationalist intelligentsia
The far right in East Germany has long been associated with the disaffected masses, but there is a growing intellectual class helping to change the narrative. Julian Göpffarth's work focuses on the… Audio
Behind the lens with a Kiwi Pulitzer Prize winner
Norway-based former West Coaster Mel Burford didn't pick up a camera until she was 19, but in 2006 she became the first New Zealander to win a Pulitzer Prize for photography, for coverage of Hurricane… Audio
Should hypnosis be used to convict criminals?
US law enforcement has been using 'forensic hypnosis' for decades to help solve crimes and also send people to death row, despite claims that it is nothing more than junk science. Dr. David Spiegel… Audio