Kathryn Ryan

British art historian Catherine McCormack has been casting a critical eye over the way women have been portrayed in art across the ages. Her book, Women in the Picture: Women Art and the Power of… Audio

Moera has the latest on Fiji's Covid crisis, Samoa's Prime Minister criticises New Zealand and Australia for a lack of support; and the Pacific Islands Forum meets virtually. Audio

An Auckland man has donated 10,000 pairs of shoes to children in the Pacific. Frazer Mataitonga has been continuing the charitable work that his mother used to carry out in Tonga. Together with his… Audio

Air New Zealand has deferred its plans to raise capital until 2022, after the government says it is unable to support the equity raise in the current economic environment. Audio

A plan for New Zealand to gradually re-open to the world was outlined by the Prime Minister yesterday. The four phase approach starts with a ramping up of the vaccine rollout, to get first doses into… Audio

Imaginary friends - why do kids have them and what do they mean? We're still not quite sure, psychologist Sarb Johal tells Kathryn Ryan, but it's very common and usually nothing parents should worry… Audio

Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about a well-intended move that’s ended up being controversial for Apple. It was to enable the scanning of people’s photos for child sex… Audio

Harry Ricketts reviews What You Made of It by C.K. Stead, published by AUP. Audio

The Government has set out its plan to reconnect New Zealand with the world in the Covid-19 pandemic. It plans to speed up the vaccination roll out and prioritise getting first doses into more people… Audio

Tā Mark Solomon spent 18-years at the helm of Ngāi Tahu. He was elected to the role in 1998 just as the iwi was about to sign its $170 million historic Treaty of Waitangi settlement. Today Ngāi Tahu's… Audio

Matt Dathan discusses the British embassy worker in Berlin who has been arrested on suspicion of taking a cash bribe to pass sensitive documents to a Russian intelligence agency. Also 15-18 year-olds… Audio

A senior medical specialist says patients are losing out as insurance companies use heavy-handed tactics to control what they can and can't receive from providers. Dr Dean Corbett is an Auckland based… Audio

Federated Farmers says New Zealand's farm environment management system has been rocked to the core by the release of a report criticising the widely used farm nutrient modelling system Overseer… Audio

Technology commentator Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about the Commerce Commission's warning to telcos over the way they're marketing alternative broadband technologies as the copper telephone… Audio

Catriona Ferguson reviews Mrs March by Virginia Feito, published by HarperCollins. Audio

Erna Walraven is an Australia-based wildlife specialist and consultant who spent 12 years as a keeper at Sydney's Taronga Zoo before moving on to be a senior curator for the next two decades where she… Audio

UK correspondent Harriet Line joins Kathryn to talk about how 16 and 17-year-olds will be offered the Covid vaccine after experts recommended expanding eligibility. The UK's travel traffic light… Audio

An amendment to the Harmful Digital Communications Act is expected to create a new offence, making it a crime to share intimate images or recordings without the person's explicit consent. Labour MP… Audio