Kathryn Ryan

A new drug testing regime of our waste water will reveal what drugs are being used in our towns and cities, and in real time. Wastewater testing is set to be rolled out across New Zealand, with the… Audio

Garth Gallaway, who's a partner at Chapman Tripp, looks at the increasing legal focus on mental well-being at work. Is it possible to prove a work place causes an employee stress? And are more… Audio

For the 12-year-old in all of us, and with his two young sons in mind, New Zealand comedian and actor, Rhys Darby has penned his first book for children. Audio

Graeme Downes reviews the music of legendary Kiwi band Straitjacket Fits ahead of their four-city reunion tour starting at the end of next month. Audio

Stella Chrysostomou from Volume Bookstore in Nelson reviews Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, which is published by Text Publishing. Audio

A life-long love of boats and the sea turned into the perfect way for British journalist Jonathan Gornall to express his overwhelming love for his daughter Phoebe, who has given him a second chance at… Audio

Australia correspondent, Bernard Keane has details on the Government's attempts to delete references to phasing out coal in the IPCC report; the Sydney Opera House billboard protests and the… Audio

Do we need a copyright collective that protects the rights of visual artists in the same way that musicians' rights are protected by APRA? Caroline Stone who has set up the rights management… Audio

The Financial Markets Authority's annual report into Kiwisaver is out, revealing more than 32-thousand New Zealanders withdrew nearly a billion dollars, between them, in the year to March, to help buy… Audio

Media commentator, Gavin Ellis says journalists play a risky game when they put themselves at the centre of a story but occasionally they produce a winner. Audio

The first scoring All Black in history, Tom Ryan was also a prize-winning artist and sailor, married the daughter of a Ngāpuhi leader and spearheaded the tourism and troutfishing industries for Lake… Audio

What is happening in business with commentator Rod Oram ; NZX rejects demands from an activist shareholder, Fletcher Building bids for Steel & Tube and Queenstown Airport to invest in Wanaka Airport.

Quentin Johnson reviews The Incurable Romantic by Frank Tallis, which ispublished by Hachette. Audio

Jessica Fellowes, has delved into the golden age the roaring 1920s with her murder mystery series books, The Mitford Muders. She got hooked on the 1920s after writing detailed companion books to the… Audio

US correspondent Susan Milligan on the impact of Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court, and a look at the changing demographic of Texas and how that is likely to affect voting, red or… Audio

New Zealand's reliance on volume-based commodities - currently dairy and tourism - and their environmental impact is a problem tackled in a new research-based book that goes to the industry for… Video, Audio

Kiwis think of New Zealand as a small, relatively minor polluter, but its reliance on agriculture and tourism make it a "huge player" that can make a difference on climate change, despite political… Audio

Latest migration figures show more people left New Zealand than came last year. Demographer Paul Spoonley joins Kathryn to discusses the impact on the economy of those latest migration statistics and… Audio