Lisa Glass

The heavy rain warning for Bay of Plenty was lifted early this morning after thunderstorms caused slips, flooding and road closures across the region.

Civil Defence teams were on alert overnight… Audio

An orange heavy rain warning for the Bay of Plenty remains in place until early this afternoon. There is surface flooding and State Highway 2 is closed near Whakatane, at the Waimana Gorge, due to… Audio

An orange heavy rain warning for the Bay of Plenty has been extended until 11-o'clock on Wednesday morning. A slow moving front lies over the region and is expected to move westwards during tomorrow… Audio

A state of emergency was declared in the Bay of Plenty last night and hundreds of evacuations were made in Ōpōtiki, West End Ōhope, and Ōhiwa harbour,.

Further north Waihi Beach, Athernree and Maketu… Audio

Former cyclone Fili is expected to make landfall in Aotearoa today with heavy rain and severe gale warnings for much of the North Island. 

People in already flood-damaged regions such as Tairāwhiti… Audio

The Bay of Plenty has been lashed with heavy rain east of Whakatāne.

More than 200 millimetres of rain is expected to make landfall across the Bay of Plenty today.

MetService has warned this could… Audio

Reviewer Lisa Glass looks at three books with the theme of someone faking their story. She talks about The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz , All My Colours by David Quantick and Fake Accounts by Lauren… Audio

Critic Lisa Glass reviews The Knowledge - how to Rebuild our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell; Ephemera by Tina Shaw and and The Burning River by Lawrence Patchett. Audio

Lisa Glass reviews Where the Crawdads Sing, The Marsh King's Daughter and Swamplandia! Audio

Lisa Glass has just read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. She joins us to review this classic and two spin-off novels. Audio

Lisa Glass reviews three dystopian reads. Audio