On Sunday, Orchestra Wellington will end 2020 on a high note with the Sugar Plum Fairy Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker making a special appearance. We speak to ballerina Kate Cockerton-Holmes about dancing the role.

RNZ Mediawatch's Hayden Donnell has a few bees in his bonnet about particular stories in New Zealand media from the last fortnight. He joins Karyn for a run through the headlines and to address some questionable calls.

An independent review of the police's response to the March 15th mosque attacks has called its response exemplary, but found it didn't have enough staff to deal with the number of inquiries from victims' families.

A number of commerative services have been held around Whakatane today to remember the 22 lives lost during the eruption of Whakaari White Island a year ago. Tonight Karyn recalls the reports today including an excerpt from the live broadcast from Mataatua Marae.

A recent study by The Lancet found that 30 percent of New Zealanders consider themselves vaccine sceptics. Karyn talks to professor of law at University of Waikato, Claire Breen about where vaccine hesitancy comes from and how to resolve it.

A Statistics NZ report released today has put data behind a lot of the anecdotal discussion around housing that has taken place this year. Senior economist from Infometrics Brad Olsen joins Karyn to go through the figures.

Fire crews will stay at Ponsonby Intermediate in central Auckland overnight to monitor a classroom, which has been gutted by fire. Our reporter Katie Doyle joins Karyn with the latest.

Neither security and intelligence agencies, the police or the Government could have stopped the Christchurch gunman a Royal Commission report has found.

Monoliths have appeared in Romania, Utah, Pittsburgh and California and they've sparked a bit of a conspiracy storm. Everything has been speculated about from alien intervention to dated marketing strategies.

It's time for our regular cross to the BBC world service to see what's going on in the rest of the world. Rich Preston joins Karyn from the UK and he has vaccines on his mind. He'll also be speaking about abortion legislation in Argentina and the upcoming climate summit.