Kathryn Ryan

Think of a corset and your mind probably settles on something tight and uncomfortable. Almost the antithesis of the stretchy pants we've all got used to in the pandemic! Kathryn speaks to Dr Sarah… Audio, Gallery

Italy will go to the polls for a snap election in September after the government of Mario Draghi - the country's sixth Prime Minister in 10 years - collapsed. Seamus talks to Kathryn about why so much… Audio

Amid a skills shortage, there's concern more needs to be done to increase the number of women working in construction. As of mid last year, 2.6% of building roles and 8% of trade and technical roles… Audio

There's disarray in the fishing industry with massive under-staffing affecting the processing of wet fish. It's hoki season and despite efforts to hire more people, the labour is just not there One of… Audio

Film and TV reviewer James Croot looks at the film adaptation of Delia Owens' novel Where the Crawdads Sing (cinemas), a new and controversial adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion (Netflix), and… Audio

Neuroscience educator Deb Rewiri returns with why it has never been so important to get on board with traditional Maori parenting practices, and what help is at hand to support struggling whanau to… Audio

Tech correspondent Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about new Australian research into how much data is being collected about users of Chinese-owned TikTok and why it's concerning, what's behind a… Audio

Phil Vine reviews No Other Place to Stand: An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand, Edited by Jordan Hamel, Rebecca Hawkes, Erik Kennedy and Essa Ranapiri, published by… Audio

High Performance Sport has released an action plan following a critical independent inquiry finding the organisation's high performance model is broken and needs to be "reimagined". Commissioned after… Audio

A multi-millionaire octogenarian widow and her two children who have kept tight control of the Tour de France despite numerous hostile takeover bids, are the focus of a new book. The world's most… Audio

UK correspondent Harriet Line touches on the Tory leadership race and the heatwave raging across the country which led the Fire Service in London to have its busiest day since World War II. Harriet… Audio

Credit reporting agencies gather and sell information about individual's credit histories to get a sense of how risky you are in relation to money. This information can be used by lenders, landlords… Audio

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are the last candidates left standing following the final vote by Conservative MPs on who will replace Boris Johnson as their leader. Sunak, the former Chancellor, topped the… Audio

Concerns the high cost of day-to-day living is seeing people taking an eye off their financial future, threatening the ability to afford to retire. This week we saw a thirty-two year inflation high… Audio

The popular ilabb brand started out fifteen years ago, in a garage in Picton. It's expanding, again, into Europe and further into Canada. It has teamed up with the world's largest mountain bike… Audio

The term Bubblegum pop is sometimes used to describe any pop music that may seem metaphorically "sickly sweet", but Bubblegum is actually an official genre itself. Bubblegum was a type of rock 'n'… Audio

Louise O'Brien reviews Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, published by Penguin Random House NZ. Audio

Best-selling British author Fiona Barton's new who-dunnit is Local Gone Missing. A cast of characters keep secrets and the reader guessing when a charismatic local man vanishes without trace from a… Audio

Australia correspondent Chris Niesche joins Kathryn to talk about the death of a Sydney teen in a Syrian jail and whether it might spark renewed interest in the plight of Australian families stuck in… Audio