Author Interview

Our four-legged best friends are the subject of a new photography book; Dogs with Stories. The work of Mardo El-Noor, the book showcases one hundred adorable dogs and their owners, elaborately staged… Audio

A small fishing village in Portugal is home to the biggest waves in the world. Nazaré is known as the Mecca of big-wave surfing, attracting the world's most fearless surfers, all in pursuit of the… Audio

Ted Anton is a Professor of English, his new book tells the stories of people on the frontier of discovery and the policy makers trying to keep up with them. It's called Programmable Planet: The… Audio

Renowned chef Al Brown has just released Eat Up New Zealand: The Bach Edition, a collection of nostalgic recipes that celebrate seasonal ingredients, kaimoana, and the occasional sweet treat.  Audio

Claire Baylis is a fiction writer and legal researcher based in Rotorua. After 12 years as a law lecturer at Victoria University, Claire Baylis joined a trans-Tasman Jury Research project, and was… Audio

It's not just in the boardroom where women are paid less, penalised for having children and considered less capable of generating big bucks. "The most competitive FIFA Women's World Cup we've ever… Audio

Rachel Louise Snyder survived a harrowing childhood in an cruel, evangelical family to become a globally recognised journalist and author. She tells her story to Kathryn Ryan. Audio

From the moment Film Director Christopher Nolan read a Pulitzer Prize winning biography about the leader of the Manhattan Project laboratory, he wanted to tell his story. Now Oppenheimer is exceeding… Audio

Shortly after the birth of her first child in 2001 French writer Marie Darrieussecq developed insomnia, and she's not been able to get a good night's sleep since. She's spent some of her many waking… Audio

Knock-offs are big business, worth $600 billion a year on the world market: anything from whiskey and bags to footwear and hair care products. In her book Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a… Audio

A retired academic from Port Chalmers was surprised to discover a copy of his memoir makes an appearance in the Barbie movie. John Egenes's book Man & Horse, The Long Ride Across America - about… Video, Audio

We're looking at how a range of emotions that children experience can be addressed through age appropriate books.  Audio

Aiden Aslin spent a harrowing six months as a Russian prisoner of war, and was eventually freed in a prisoner exchange in September last year. Audio

Genevieve Mora has moved past shame to publicly share her own story of anxiety, OCD and anorexia in the new book Bite Back. Audio

Sam Irby lives in the real world and writes for the ones created in Hollywood. She's a writer and supervising Producer for And Just Like That, the Sex and the City reboot and Shrill. Audio

Dr Stephanie Dowrick is an award-winning writer, psychotherapy researcher and coach, public speaker, workshop leader, interfaith minister and the founder of The Women's Press in London. Her latest… Audio

When All Blacks great Dan Carter retired from the game in 2021, he found no obvious career move at his doorstep. His new book, The Art of Winning: Ten Lessons in Leadership, Purpose and Potential… Audio

Close to 70,000 people in Aotearoa New Zealand are currently living with a dementia diagnosis. And that number is rapidly growing as the population ages, with an estimated 100,000 more to be diagnosed… Audio

Most of New Zealand's prime ministers have had the inspirational abilities of an earthworm says Denis Welch, a political commentator and former deputy editor for The Listener. Audio

If you've ever felt awkward or tongue-tied in a conversation and maybe been a bit embarrassed, today's expert might be able to help you out. Debra Fine wrote 'The Fine Art of Small Talk' and is our… Audio