Wallace Chapman
Summer Star Trek
One of this summer's outdoor theatre highlights could be Summer Star Trek. It's the second annual outing for this fresh-air rendition of a classic Star Trek episode, with venues in Lower Hutt and… Audio
Jesse Greenslade - Bully Blues
Jesse Greenslade was bullied on his first day at primary school - and this continued for the next 11 years. Jesse talks to Wallace about his experience, and about the book he has written for young… Audio
Chris Maxworthy
Maritime historian Lieutenant Chris Maxworthy, Engineering Officer in the Royal Australian Navy tells how he discovered the incredible story of a Spanish plan to oust the Brits from Australia, New… Audio
Aboriginal Mithaka people take battle against fracking to UN
Yesterday's state election in Queensland was watched closely by the Mithaka people - Aboriginal traditional owners of some of the iconic landscapes known as Channel Country in south western… Audio
Climate refugee
Climate refugee Ioane Teitiota is seeking asylum in NZ. His case is a step closer to being heard by the Supreme Court and it's garnering further international attention. Audio
Helen Razer - The Decline of Reason
Helen Razer and Bernard Keane were going mad over the deteriorating quality of public debate and the dwindling of common sense in media, politics and culture. So they wrote a book about it: A Short… Audio
Blake Harris - Console Wars
Console Wars is a David and Goliath showdown of two companies battling for dominance - the goliath that was Nintendo and the scrappy upstart called Sega - a fascinating chronicle of the culture wars… Audio
Dave Luddy - Australian Open
Tennis correspondent Dave Luddy is in Melbourne covering the Australian Open. Audio
Bravo Figaro!
Comedian, and master storyteller Mark Thomas has created an opera about his larger-than-life builder and opera-loving father called Bravo Figaro - opera meets life, comedy, death. He's bringing the… Audio
Richard Ford - Frank's Back
Let me be Frank with you, is Richard Ford's latest book - a series of four interlocking stories, heralding the return of Frank Bascombe on the universal subjects of ageing, loss, faith, marriage, and… Audio
Erik Poppe - Battlefield Photography
Reuters war photographer and celebrated Norwegian film director Erik Poppe talks about A Thousand Times Goodnight, winner of the Grand Prix at the 2014 Montreal film festival. Audio
New President for Sri Lanka
Samanth Subramanian is a New Dehli-based journalist. Last year Samanth's new book, This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War, was published. Audio
Academic calls for payment for organ donors
Should we be paid for donating our organs? New Zealand has one of the lowest rates of organ donation in the world, and postgraduate researcher at Canterbury University Elizabeth Prasad is calling for… Audio
Evicted protestors continue battle against homelessness in UK
The group Love Activists hit the headlines on Christmas Eve when around 20 of them were evicted from squatting in an unused Royal Bank of Scotland building in London. All were homeless, and occupied… Audio
Fears continue in Paris after terror attacks
More than 1 and a half million people took the streets of Paris following the murder of 17 people by terrorists earlier this month. Audio
No end in sight for New Caledonia's political crisis
Our nearest neighbour, New Caledonia, has started the year with a political crisis. Audio
UNICEF fears for refugees fleeing Boko Haram violence
UNICEF says Nigerian children are losing homes, schools and lives as result of violence. Audio
African nations respond as Boko Haram expands zone of operation
With the ABC's Africa correspondent Martin Cuddihy. Audio
A History of Student Radio - Episode Three
Student radio stations tap into the 'youth market' to generate advertising revenue; the 'alternative' becomes mainstream; and we hear about some of the non-musical exploits of student radio, including… Audio