Author Interview

In his new book, For the Good of the World, English philosopher Professor A.C. Grayling outlines the biggest challenges he believes the world faces right now - climate change, technology and justice -… Audio

British ultra-athlete Rob Pope left his job to recreate Forrest Gump's fictional run, traversing America five times.The English veterinarian is the first person to complete the epic run covering… Audio, Gallery

Night time for Waitakere-based author Annette Lees, is magical and beguiling. It transforms the senses and the landscape. But most of us miss out on it most the time. It's when the nocturnal world… Audio

Roland Ennos says humanity owes a huge debt to the most humble of materials; wood. His book The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History takes us on a sweeping ten-million-year… Audio

The clean start of a New Year can lead to a start of a good clean for homes. Today's expert is author, journalist and editor Wendyl Nissen who has spent the past two decades promoting sustainable… Audio

The US prison system amounts to a modern-day form of slavery based on lies about the underclass it is exploiting, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says. Audio

In her new book Don't Sweat It, Nicky Pellegrino gets real about her own experience of menopause and suggests lifestyle changes that can help with the symptoms. Audio

Most people, were you to ask them, would say they love animals. Yet it's also statistically likely those same people, and I include myself in this, also eat the flesh of animals, wear their skin… Audio

What three things would you want for a prison escape? Would a ouija board, a strong imagination and a credulous captor be on your list? They were key tools in 1916 for two prisoners of war in the… Audio

After years of research, food writer and tech inventor Nathan Myhrvold has produced a gigantic three-volume guide to the world's most beloved food - Modernist Pizza.   Video, Audio

The damaging domination of Australia's right-wing media has weaponised climate change, says Malcolm Turnbull, who was Australian prime minister between 2015 and 2018. Audio

Claire Nelson has had long road to recovery after a near fatal hiking accident in the Joshua Tree National Park. The New Zealander set off on a day long expedition and ended up surviving four days… Audio, Gallery

After 31 years in politics - 16 of them as Germany's leader - Angela Merkel's successor finally took over the country last week. It ended quite a swan song for Merkel, who announced back in 2018 that… Audio, Gallery

Following your passion is a popular mantra for career decision-making throughout the world. But does passion have a dark side? Erin Cech is author of The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for… Audio

Five years ago the world's media was abuzz with allegations about incoming president Donald Trump and some - pretty salacious - details of what he'd got up to while in Russia. The so-called Trump… Audio

Author of Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide Dylan Thuras talks to Jesse about finding weird and wonderful gastronomic phenomena around the world. Audio

It sounds like every teen or tween's worst nightmare: mum and dad drag you off to an uninhabited island for the summer with no wifi or Netflix. And it's the premise of Elizabeth Pulford's new book, a… Audio

Harvard professor of human evolutionary biology and author of the new book, Exercised, Daniel Lieberman explains how we evolved to be physically active, but we never evolved to do physical activity… Audio