Charlotte Graham Mc Lay

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

The missing piece of New Zealand's firearms reforms falls in place this weekend – a long-called for registry which will tell us who owns what, and where guns go when they're sold.  Audio

Charlotte Graham-McLay shares her picks for the best books of 2018: Less by Andrew Sean Greer, He's So MASC by Chris Tse, and Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. Audio

Noha Ibrahim moved to New Zealand with her family from Egypt in 2016. She brings recipes for Sahlab, an Egyptian winter drink; Mediterranean Squid Tagine; and Qatayef, a Middle Eastern dessert. Audio

Comedian James Nokise is a veteran performer in both New Zealand and overseas, and the host of Eating Fried Chicken In The Shower, an RNZ podcast in which he interviews people about their mental… Audio

Bernadette Vine is a Research Fellow on the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project in the school of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University. She collects and analyses… Audio

Nigerian-American author Tomi Adeyemi's debut novel, Children of Blood and Bone, is the first in her young adult fantasy trilogy. It's tale infused with west African mythology, magic and power… Audio

Dr Paul Morland is associate research fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and a renowned authority on demography. In his book, The Human Tide, Dr. Morland explains the influences of… Audio

2019 marks 150 years since construction began of the periodic table of chemical elements by the Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev. Just 62 chemical elements were known then, but scientists have since… Audio

The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, says all countries around the world should be concerned about the death sentence handed to a Canadian national accused of drug smuggling in China. Also… Audio

After the defeat of her Brexit withdrawal deal in the House of Commons this week, British Prime Minister Theresa May has until Monday to come up with a "Plan B" for Britain's exit from the European… Audio

Nilufar Allayarova and her daughter Hanifa Kodirova came to New Zealand from Uzbekistan when Hanifa was four (now she's 18 and about to head off to university). They explain how Uzbeks prepare and… Audio

Angella Dravid took home the Billy T. James award at the 2017 New Zealand International Comedy Festival, and her gentle, awkward brand of comedy has also featured on Funny Girls, Jono and Ben, and The… Audio

Adrian Sutherland runs a Facebook page called One Minute Gardening, where he gives tips to readers from his home in Gisborne. He is also a talented artist. Send in your questions for Adrian to answer… Audio, Gallery

Piers Steel is one of the world's leading thinkers on the science of motivation and procrastination. His book, The Procrastination Equation lays out a toolkit for "how to stop putting things off and… Audio

The Chinese government sees the women's movement as a threat so it's a huge triumph that feminism is on the rise there, says academic Leta Hong Fincher. Her latest book is Betraying Big Brother: The… Audio

Eddie Beetham is an Auckland University wave scientist who has co-designed a simple calculation that predicts when and where Pacific Islands will be inundated by the ocean. The calculation was… Audio, Gallery

As a Democratic majority took charge of the U.S. Congress this week, President Donald Trump dug in his heels over a partial federal government shutdown that has lasted a fortnight so far. While… Audio

Wellington food writer Laura Vincent brings us recipes for toasted sunflower seed and garlic dip, black salted caramel ripple ice cream, and almond butter toffee. Audio

Shihad frontman Jon Toogood <https://twitter.com/JonToogood>, who also leads The Adults… Audio