Jesse Mulligan

Red, White and Brass have just joined that elite group of New Zealand films earning more than 1 million dollars at the box office. Director Damon Fepulea'i talks to Jesse. Audio

The University of Canterbury are the latest to make plans to re-wild fifteen hundred (1500m2) square metres of campus grounds to increase biodiversity. Dr Matt Morris talks to Jesse. Audio

 If you read the fine print of your smoke detector it might recommend very specific battery replacements, something many don't do. To clear things up, Adrian Nacey from Fire and Emergency New Zealand… Audio

This week's critter is the rare and elusive banded Bounty Island spider, Pacificana cockayni. This spider only lives on the Bounty Islands - a remote and rugged collection of rocks far off the east… Audio

This week we've got an amazing recipe that you can probably alter to suit - but the base of it is guaranteed winter comfort food. Audio

Wellington-based Māori musician AJA (aka Aja Ropata) performs four songs with her band, including her 2022 Silver Scroll-winning waiata 'Te Iho'. Video, Audio

From this weekend large dogs will be welcome on Auckland buses. They must be on a lead and wearing a muzzle. It's an eight week trial and if all goes well it may become permanent. Audio

For thirty years, caulerpa seaweed has been known as the single worst marine weed pest. Northland Regional Council is determined to keep it out of Te Tai Tokerau due to the risks to local environment.

This week we've got something a bit spooky, but also very sweet. First, we speak to Rita in Tauranga, who tells us the story of her late husband's childhood home that kept following them! If you've… Audio

A pair of brother-in-laws have turned a run-down hydroponic farm into a flourishing business, producing thousands lettuces. Before taking on the huge task they had never grown a lettuce before.  Audio

"Miracle is not a word we use very often in science, but it was an accidental miracle" - Dr Divya Adhia of the Dunedin School of Medicine on Lynley Hood's restored eyesight. Hood, an award-winning… Audio

A renewable energy source is to be established on the Chatham Islands, with funding announced in the budget yesterday.  Noel Brown, CEO of the Chatham Islands Enterprise Trust, talks to Jesse. Audio

As they prepare to attend a prestigious American music school, young Christchurch singers Will Luhrs and Monet Schutte have released a beautiful soul ballad. Video, Audio

Every day paramedics deal with some of the most intense, traumatic, and bizarre situations imaginable. Mark Belchamber has ended up with a book of his tales from the frontline. He talks to Jesse. Audio

Te Awamutu college student Jacob Chetwin talks to Jesse about the game he's developed and how he hopes to help others learn more about business. Audio

Each year 25 volunteers in Gore recycle 650 tonnes of paper and cardboard. The Gore Pakeke Lions Club started the operation about 30 years ago - all the the volunteers are between 70 and 90 years old.

The internet as we know it is over. It's Amy Webb's job to look at where technology is taking us as head of the Future Today Institute. She says we are in the middle of a perfect storm of advances in… Audio