Our comedians Te Radar and Irene Pink bring some levity the end of the week

Sports commentator Sam Ackerman

Around the motu: Jesse Archer in Taupo

Kiran Dass reviews Universality by Natasha Brown, published by Faber.

Beijing's military spectacle, which brought together leaders of China, North Korea and Russia, has drawn global attention; Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto is in China amid protests at home, and it is "sleep week" in Japan,

The search is on for boomers this weekend. Not the human kind, but the Matuku or Australasian bittern - an elusive heron-like bird native to wetlands, with a distinctive booming call.

A young entrepreneur is hoping to make New Zealand a more accessible place for people with physical disabilities.

NZ Rugby Chair David Kirk joins Kathryn to discuss the state of the national game and the business that runs it.

Film and TV reviewer Perlina Lau joins Kathryn to talk about the second season of The Buccaneers (Apple TV), which features a group of young American women who take on the London aristocracy in the 1870s - one for lovers of The Gilded Age and Bridgerton. Little Disasters (TVNZ) stars Diane Kruger as a mother whose best friend and A+E nurse calls social services on her over her baby's head injury. And The Roses is a satirical black comedy starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman - but does it measure up to the 1989 film The War of the Roses? Perlina Lau is co-host of RNZ's Culture 101 programme

What are the pros and cons of handing out awards to children?