Shakespeare & Co ran a lending library in Paris with a very famous clientele at a time English language books were hard to find in Paris. The shop closed in 1941, but now Princeton University has published the lending lists of borrowers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein.

Aroha Reriti-Crofts has spent her life involved with health initiatives in Maori communities, such as Tamariki Ora, Rapuora (the mobile nursing service), outreach immunisation, flu vaccinations for older people and breast feeding advocacy. Mrs Reriti-Crofts is now Dame Aroha, for services to Maori and the community.

2014 Masterchef winners Karena and Kasey Bird went online through Lockdown with live-streamed cooking demonstrations from their parent's Maketu kitchen. They talk Karyn through Pan-fried fish with paua and tuatua Sauce and Haloumi with balsalmic beetroot.

One in eight young Australians believe that Bill Gates is spreading coronavirus using 5G and that the pandemic is the Government's way of forcing them to be vaccinated. Journalist James Purtill has been researching this issue for the ABC, to find out how deep the nuttiness goes.

Ella Buchanan-Hanify has been awarded a Queen's Service Medal for services to music. She has been involved with community and young people's choirs, for more than 40 years. She was musical director of Artsplash for 12 years until 2017 and she has directed the Chilton St James School Seraphim and I See Red choirs for the past 25 years.

It seems we've been getting it wrong when we say sorry all this time. Evolutionary psychologists have spent years researching this topic and finding out how to apologise better. It seems there's a particular etiquette you should follow to make it clear you really mean it when you say you're sorry. Yohsuke Ohtsubo from Kobe University in Japan and Cindy Franz from Oberlin College in Ohio explain how an apology should be made.

Decades of neglect has left the US in a state of disrepair and it is now too poor to halt economic and social decline, economic commentator Umair Haque says.

Bluff poet Cilla McQueen has been named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in today's Honour's list. She joins Karyn to talk about a life of words and writing.

The Formary is a Wellington research and development company looking at a long-term solution to waste created by fast fashion. Its co-founder is Bernadette Casey.

Wainuiomata PE teacher Bill Sharp, has been awarded the Queens Service Medal. For 24 years, Bill has been running a breakfast club for boys who needed help to stop them going off the tracks. The Futures Programme has mentored dozens of young men including Tana Umana and Piri Weepu.