Its time for Do It Yourself where we celebrate a new form of DIY! Josie Campbell is a music publicist by day and an enthusiastic newcomer to gardening and preserving, pickling gherkins at least 3-4 times a week during the summer, as well as experimenting with various recipes to use up tomatoes and courgettes. She joins Karyn to explain how you can deal with the glut of produce in your backyard!

Jess Mazengarb decided it was time to do something epic. She had survived cancer and a serious bike crash (on her birthday!) Tour Aotearoa Brevet seemed like just the thing. It's a cycling tour that runs the length of New Zealand and Jess has turned her training and tour into a fundraiser for the Cycling Action Network (CAN). She talks to Karyn about why she's chosen this charity to focus on

This week we're going back to 1542 and the death by beheading of Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry the Eighth, which happened this week.

The last time MPs looked at a radio station for young people Marian Hobbs was in the House.

The country's top performing sports people are being honoured at the Halberg Awards at the Spark Arena in Auckland tonight.

The shortage of GPs in Northland is one example of a nationwide issue affecting doctors.

This week on Midweek Mediawatch Hayden Donnell teases out the voluminous response to RNZ's plan to cut jobs and restructure RNZ Concert.

Kauri dieback disease is threatening the survival of our kauri trees - it's well known about in West Auckland where a rahui has been in place over the Waitakere Ranges for more than two years since December 2017.

Radio New Zealand has withdrawn a proposal to cut jobs and restructure RNZ Concert. The backlash was severe - a petition of 26-thousand signatures was presented to RNZ this afternoon.

When writer Long Litt Woon's husband, Eiolf died unexpectedly at the age of 54, she was adrift with grief. And so, she signed up for a course on mushrooming, something she and Eiolf had planned to do together.