Kathryn Ryan

Bill celebrates Matariki and our mid-winter new year with some ideas about community gardens close to inner city density. Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at… Audio

Kathrine Lynch is the founder of meal planning service, The Daily Menu. She shares a range of budget tips and recipes for cutting your grocery bill, including cooking meals in bulk for eat half now… Audio, Gallery

Kathryn, Ben and Shane discuss the Cabinet reshuffle and the expectations on Ministers in their new portfolios. Also, Parliament's getting a new Speaker in Adrian Rurawhe, could there be an… Audio

Quentin Johnson reviews The Flame of Resistance by Damien Lewis, published by Hachette NZ Audio

In 1975, Dame Whina Cooper led a land march from Te Hāpua in the far north, to Parliament in Wellington, demanding action on the loss of Māori land. "Not one more acre" became the movement's rallying… Audio, Gallery

The European Commission has recommended Ukraine be granted EU candidate status. an important step towards EU membership. The final decision will depend on the 27 EU member countries. This announcement… Audio

The introduction of higher insulation standards designed to make homes not only warmer, but more energy efficient, could be delayed even longer. The building code changes were announced last year by… Audio

A mountain biking expert who grades trails for city councils is warning that many of the country's tracks are undergraded, meaning they're actually harder than the signs suggest. Simon Noble has… Audio

Comedians Te Radar and Irene Pink finish the week with a few laughs, including news of a cat cafe opening in Lower Hutt.  Audio

Dana looks ahead to the Super Rugby final, Blues versus Crusaders at Eden Park tomorrow night. It's a sell-out so does this signal a return to the glory days of Super Rugby or is it an anomaly?. Also… Audio

Today we'll hear two tracks from a killer collection spotlighting "The Lost Queen of New Orleans Soul" Betty Harris, followed by raucous power pop action from Rangiora's Best Bets and some prime UK… Audio

Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books reviews The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini, published by Myriad Editions UK Pub by: Myriad Editions UK, RRP: paperback, $30 Audio

Candice Carty-Williams had a smash hit with her first novel, Queenie, which she decribed as the black Briget Jone's Diary. She was 26 when she wrote it, and it sold more than 500,000 copies, winning… Audio

The Prime Minister of Samoa has confirmed her government is looking at halting the open recruitment process for RSE workers. In her address to horticulture industry leaders in Hawke's Bay, Fiame Naomi… Audio

Thirty years ago three children disappeared from the same street in a small town in New South Wales. They became known as the Bowraville Three: Sixteen-year-olds Colleen Walker-Craig and Clinton… Video, Audio

A team of four students at Christchurch's St Andrew's College have won an international mathematics award for their work modelling the most time-effective way for passengers to board and disembark a… Audio

The economy has shrunk, interest rates are on the rise, house prices down, and the cost of living soaring. Are we in store for a recession ? Gross Domestic Product fell 0.2 percent in the March 2022… Audio

Author and parenting coach, Maggie Dent, talks to Kathryn about her new book Girlhood: raising our little girls to be healthy, happy and heard. She says it is vital that parents enable young girls'… Video, Audio

Tech commentator Paul Matthews joins Kathryn to look at why one of Google's Artificial Intelligence chatbots hit the news this week. One of its engineers went public with big news: he thought it could… Audio