Jesse Mulligan

The University of Auckland's History department has been gifted $500,000 to establish a History Innovation Fund. Audio

An Auckland'based youth mentoring charity is taking some innovative steps to adapt in the wake of Covid-19. Audio

Dr Elana Curtis is calling for a "new recipe for pandemic management".   Audio

This week's critter is small but noisy. Doc's Nicola Toki today on Critter of the Week tells Jesse more about  the Chatham Island Snipe! Audio, Gallery

Free range cook Annabel Langbein shares her delicious recipe for fish tacos that was inspired by a visit to Tulum in Mexico.  Audio

Producer and book man Robert Kelly - went through the hundreds of entries with the editor of the 2020 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, Jo Emeney and together they whittled them down to a shortlist and our… Audio

If you live in Wellington you might have seen a bearded man sitting in a parking space in Wellington's CBD, eating his lunch. That was likely Alex Dyer who's part of the grassroots movement Picnics In… Audio

Funeral celebrant Timothy Giles hopes his podcast At A Loss will help people navigate the difficult emotions we all must face, including those related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Audio

The editor of the 2020 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, Jo Emeney joins Jesse to help announce our annual competition to mark National Poetry Day.  Audio

Even a dictator has to eat. And Polish journalist and trained chef Witold Szablowski has tracked down the cooks for notorious leaders from Saddam Hussein to Pol Pot to get their views from the… Audio

Our Bookmarks guest today is Tex Houston has worked and toured with most of the bands on the Flying Nun label, and developing his own line of speakers called Tex Tone.

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RNZ's Executive Editor of Longform Journalism Veronica Schmidt has shared on our site today her harrowing experience of being filmed by a man while trying on clothes in a Kmart changing cubicle and… Audio

Today Nga Taonga's Kahu Kutia (who is also from Ngāi Tūhoe) shares excerpts of the one of RNZ's Spectrum programme made in 1982 from the sound archives. Audio, Gallery

While mulling over whether to get weight loss surgery, Newsroom columnist Anna Rawhiti-Connell wondered if she was being influenced by oppressive beauty standards. She joins Jesse to discuss her… Audio

Jann Hurley's a Pukekohe based architect trying to run a project just down the road from her, but in northern Waikato. She explains to Jesse how the travel limitations are affecting locals on both… Audio