Wallace Chapman
The New Torchlight List: Ireland
Jim Flynn and Wallace Chapman discuss modern Irish literature. Jim rates John Banville's "wonderful style", but is less enamoured with John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The sex in Edna… Audio
The New Torchlight List: Britain
Some of Jim's favourite writers feature in this episode - V.S. Naipaul and Kazuo Ishiguro who, he says, is "perhaps the greatest novelist of our generation. His work is going to make him one of few… Audio
Chris Kraus - loving Dick
Chris Kraus is the author of I Love Dick which was recently made into a pilot by Amazon. The pilot is directed by Jill Soloway who's responsible for the hit Transparent. Chris Kraus is a graduate of… Audio
The New Torchlight List: South America
Jim and Wallace discuss South American writers, including the politics and the passion reflected in the great writing of Gabriel Garcia Marquez - recommending the memorable Love in the Time of Cholera… Audio
Local Body Elections -West Coast
Each week we will visit a region in New Zealand to find out what the big issues are in the upcoming local body elections. This week we speak to Brendon McMahon, from The Greymouth Star. Audio
David Norman - The Maori Economy
Economist David Norman joins Wallace to talk about his new report which shows Maori are facing a period of incredible economic growth. With more than $43 billion in assets, Maori are a growing… Audio
Emily Rapp Black - Paralympic Blues
Writer Emily Rapp Black was born with a congenital defect which led to the amputation of her left foot at age four. She tells Wallace Chapman that in reality people with disabilities are more ordinary… Audio
Mark Engler - Non Violent Revolts
Mark Engler is the co-author, with his brother Paul, of This is an Uprising: How Non Violent Revolt is Shaping the 21st Century. He's a contributing editor at Yes! Magazine, and author of How to Rule… Audio
Fiji opposition leaders detained
The leaders of Fiji's two opposition parties and a prominent trade unionist were being held at separate police stations in the capital, Suva, last night after an afternoon of questioning over an… Audio
Petra Bagust and Ido Drent - Witnessing Human Trafficking
Television presenters Petra Bagust and Ido Drent have been in Thailand and Cambodia getting a first hand experience of one of the world's fastest growing criminal industries: Human trafficking. They… Audio
The new culture of narcissism
Narcissism is on the rise says author Anne Manne, and her new book looks at our culture that celebrates the ‘I’. Audio
The New Torchlight List: North America
Jim Flynn discusses North American authors and tells Wallace Chapman that everyone must read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. He also highly rates Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, but Wallace and Jim… Audio
Douglas Osto - Psychedelic Spirituality
Massey University's Dr Douglas Osto joins Wallace to talk about how the pursuit of enlightenment has often intersected with mind-altering drugs. His new book, Altered States - Buddhism and Psychedelic… Audio
Local Elections - Coromandel
Each week we will visit a region in New Zealand to find out what the big issues are in the upcoming local body elections. This week we speak to editor of the Mercury Bay Informer, Stephan Bosman. Audio
Karl Kane and Richard Bartlett - E-Democracy
With voter participation at an all time low among digital natives is there a digital fix to a growing crisis of democratic participation? Richard Bartlett is a co-founder of group decision making tool… Audio
Tina Ngata - The Non-Plastic Māori
Back in May Tina Ngata travelled to New York to make a submission to the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues. Tina, who blogs under the name the non-plastic Maori, condemned Helen Clark's… Video, Audio
John Waters - Through a Glass Onion
Australian actor and director, John Waters, talks to Wallace about his upcoming stage-show, Through a Glass Onion, a play set in the last moments of John Lennon's life. Audio
Report From Rio
Calling in from Rio; Gael Woods from the RNZ sports team joins Wallace Chapman with the latest from the Olympic Games. Audio
Zana Fraillon - Growing up in Detention
Author Zana Fraillon discusses her young adult novel, The Bone Sparrow, about a boy born to a refugee in a an Australian permanent detention centre and who, by the age of 10, has never been beyond the… Audio
Drew Philp - Walking to the Republican National Convention
Earlier this month journalist Mike Carter told us about walking from Liverpool to London and being struck by a deep well of discontentment fuelling the Brexit vote. Journalist Drew Philp has made a… Audio