Alcohol

Dr Lindsay Squeglia is a leading researcher on alcohol and marijuana and their effect on the adolescent brain (University of California San Diego). She is visiting New Zealand for a symposium on… Audio

Director, writer and producer Rolf de Heer has been involved with the creation of many Independent Australian films. His latest production, Charlie's Country won David Gulpilil the award for Best… Audio

Entrepreneur behind the long-running underground New Zealand music entity A Low Hum, which has involved him putting out magazines, CDs, DVDs vinyl and cassette releases, touring bands around the… Audio

New Zealand journalist who deciding to stop drinking alcohol and started the anonymous blog, Mrs D is Going Without, which is also the title of her new memoir. Audio

Auckland is set to be the first major New Zealand city off the block to toughen the licensing around liquor sales. Audio

100 year old Auckland Rugby league club bans booze - Richmond Rovers in Grey Lynn no longer serving alcohol. Gus Fepuleai is the club's chairperson. Audio

Massey University researchers are looking at how young adults use Facebook in relation to their drinking activities Audio

Massey University researchers are looking at how young adults use Facebook in relation to their drinking activities Audio

Tennessee Williams, F Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cheever, Carver, Berryman… Six giants of American literature - and all addicted to alcohol. In her new book 'The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers… Audio

In Ideas, we address the issue of lowering the blood alcohol content limit for driving. Chris talks to Palmerston North MP Iain Lees-Galloway about his Land Transport (Safer Alcohol Limits for… Audio

When alcohol was banned in Southland in 1902 moonshine flowed illegally from the Hokonui Hills west of Gore. Most of it was made by the McRae family, a Scottish clan who had been driven off their land… Audio

In the light of recent government moves to raise the drinking age, Spiritual Outlook looks at the temperance movement of a century ago. Audio

New Zealand's booze culture, the vested interests that promote it, and the tendency of far too many of us to binge drink has been much in the headlines lately. So what, if anything, can be done to… Audio

Karen Brown investigates efforts to counter binge drinking in the UK Audio

Karen Brown visits Britain to look at some of the innovative ways being used to tackle the country's binge-drinking culture Audio