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The pandemic is having a huge toll on all of us - you might find you're stuck in a state of feeling 'meh', uninspired and stagnant, and largely joy-less and we can do about it. Psychologists call it languishing - and clinical psychologists Gaynor Parkin and Dougal Sutherland, join Bryan to find out how to get from languishing back to a much better mental state.

Peggy Revell joins us from Medicine Hat, Alberta.

A few dozen New Zealand superannuitants who are stuck in Australia having travelled there during the travel bubble, are being told the Government is working through whether the bubble closing, that's left them in limbo, could have been foreseen. Because once you've been out of the country for more than seven months, you lose your pension. The Associate Health Minister - Dr Ayesha Verrall told Checkpoint - The National Party's spokesperson for seniors, Ian McKelvie joins Bryan to discuss whether that's fair

Aran Warren, Canturbury University phD student working with MacDiarmid Institute investigator Maan Alkaisi - speaking to me about the potential for Lux/Relux - a solid material made out of light, as imagined by the Sci Fi writer John W Campbell back in the 1930s - to occur in the real world.

The mother of three children who have been missing since the weekend with their father at a remote Waikato West Coast beach has released a statement. King Country man Thomas Phillips and his three children Jayda, Maverick and Ember aged 8, 6 and 5, have not been seen since a family gathering on Saturday. Their car was found on the remote Kiri-te-here beach on Sunday

Back in 2016, Bryan spoke to Birgit Krippner on travels on a container ship. Her upcoming photo exhibition 'HORIZONT' (meaning horizon in german) opens at the Suite Gallery in Wellington on the 13th of October.

Stranded Kiwis desperate to get home have a glimmer of hope from the MIQ system from next Monday. The Government stopped opening up rooms in MIQ following the Delta outbreak - only those in emergencies could apply for a spot. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has confirmed the pause will end on Monday morning. Three-thousand rooms will be released over the September to December period - in a new online lottery system. Alexandra Birt from the Grounded Kiwis group tells Bryan Crump how Kiwis overseas are responding.

An Auckland restaurateur has written an open letter to the city's Mayor, Phil Goff, asking him to show stronger leadership. Tony McGeorge, who with his wife Krishna Botica employs more than 100 staff runs Café Hanoi, Saan, Ghost Street and Xuxu has called on Mr Goff to advocate more strongly on behalf of the city.

Nina Mingya Powles joins us to talk about her new book Small Bodies of Water - a collection of essays exploring the bodies of water that separate and connect us taking us from London to New Zealand, Shanghai to Malaysia.

If you're a Kiwibank customer, you might have been finding it a bit tricky to do your online banking since Saturday. MetService and Kiwibank have both been battling cyberattacks in the past week. The're among many organsations to be hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Those include ANZ, New Zealand Post and the Ministry for Primary Industries - and the Waikato DHB was also hit by a cyber attack. The chief executive of the Telecommunications Forum, Paul Brislen, joins Bryan Crump to understand why it happens and who's to blame.