Jesse Mulligan

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If you've picked up an Oxford English Dictionary in the last 37 years, the chances are one of the definitions you read was written by John Simpson. Audio

Today's Bookmarks guest is an English born naturalised New Zealander who trained as a teacher before becoming one of our best known comedy playwrights. His break-through work depicted life in the… Audio

Dev Hynes is known as 'Blood Orange'. Music critic Kate Robertson says his album Freetown Sound is the best album of 2016. Audio

Taj Mahal's 1971 album "The Real Thing" the choice of James Brookman today. Audio

A "date that will live in infamy"  - that's how US President Franklin Roosevelt described the 7th of December 1941. Today is the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl… Audio

On Monday, it was literally a celebration of the ground we walk on - and had nothing to do with the resignation of John Key.It was World Soils Day and has been created to highlight the importance of… Audio

News website Stuff is attempting  to revamp their occasionally 'toxic' comment section.Admitting at times that the  section is overrun by trolls and partisans, Stuff has decided  TO rewrite its… Audio

On the same day Newsweek magazine featured a story about the women's liberation movement in 1970, a group of 45 women at the magazine filed a sex discrimination lawsuit. Audio

Bands in 1980s Dunedin took the anger of British punk and melded it with a Kiwi-DIY aesthetic to create the primitive, but powerful, ‘Dunedin’ sound – the sound of ‘making do’. Audio

Within the next 20 years more than half of jobs as we currently understand them will be under threat from new technology. Audio

Reports and footage of flashing lights during and before the recent earthquake, have emerged, but what causes the mysterious glows? Video, Audio