Nine To Noon

Film and TV correspondent Tamar Munch joins Kathryn to look at The Responder (TVNZ OnDemand), in which Martin Freeman plays a cop under pressure forced to work with a rookie on Liverpool's streets. Under the Banner of Heaven (Disney+) is based on a book by John Krakauer in which a devout detective investigates a murder at an esteemed Utah family and a new series of NZ Today (Three) with Guy Williams kicks off next week.

Neuroplasticity educator and parenting expert Nathan Wallis talks with Kathryn about the advantages of children starting school at six years old. He says while it goes against the norm in New Zealand, in most countries across the world, the starting age is six, often seven. He says those children who start school when they are older than five may be doubly advantaged - by having more free play when their brains need it most, and by being older than their peers when they do start school.

Technology correspondent Peter Griffin looks at the action taken by former NZ Privacy Commissioner John Edwards against Clearview AI, now he's the UK's Information Commissioner. What was Clearview doing wrong and what precedent is being set for the UK and beyond? And where there any tech wins out of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's mission to the US, or has New Zealand been left out of some strategic collaborations because we're not in the right club?

Carole Beu of the Women's Bookshop in Ponsonby reviews The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn, published by Penguin Random House UK.

Nury Turkel was born in a Chinese re-education camp in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, managing to flee China in 1995 to attend university in the United States. Becoming the first Uyghur to receive an American law degree, Nury Turkel went on to become a human rights attorney and activist for Uyghur people. In recent years, China's repression of Uyghur Muslims has intensified, most visibly through the construction of a series of re-education centres in Xinjiang. This was further exposed last week, when a cache of hacked data and photographs from police computers, now called the Xinjiang Police Files, were published online. It revealed in unprecedented detail, China's brutal use of re-education camps and prisons as a system of mass detention for Uyghurs. It's estimated between one and two million Uyghurs are detained in the Xinjiang facilities. The documents also uncovered a "shoot to kill" policy for those who try to escape. Nury Turkel is a co-founder and chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. He's just published No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs. He tells Kathryn how the unfolding Uyghur crisis is turning into the greatest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century.

UK correspondent Matthew Parris joins Kathryn to talk about the mounting number of letters expressing no confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson, with some Tory MPs openly calling for him to go. There's been travel chaos across the country with one in five flights disrupted and claims some travel firms have oversold holidays. As the UK gears up to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this weekend, who'll be on the balcony at Buckingham Palace?

There is constant volatility across the crypto currency spectrum, with values often fluctuating quite markedly over short periods of time. Two of the more popular, so called, stable coins, Terra and Luna recently crashed. University of Auckland Associate Professor Alex Sims teaches commercial law and is an expert on crypto currencies and their regulation, and she is a member of the executive committee of Block Chain NZ. She says the failure of Terra and Luna are not indicative of the stability of others, but it does highlight the increasing use of stable coins, adding the crashes are not the first and won't be the last. Dr Sims says greater regulation is desirable but is not necessarily the panacea and investors need to always be wary.

People over 50 are "dating dangerously" while under-30s frequently have rough sex with people they meet on apps, according to a new study.

Science commentator Dr Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn to talk about a new UK study which shows people infected with the omicron BA.2 variant reported more symptoms and experienced a great disruption to their daily activities than those with the BA.1 variant. She'll also look at what hiding poison in sugary bait to kill cockroaches is actually doing to their sexual behaviour and two new studies suggest we may be able to identify and track wildlife by sampling DNA from the air.

A new Canadian film follows four musicians on the autism spectrum as they record and release an EP. OKAY : The ASD Band Film is a feature length documentary with four people at its heart: lead singer Rawan Tuffaha, guitarist and vocalist Jackson Begley, piano player Ron Adea and drummer Spenser Murray. The four Toronto musicians came together through an Autism spectrum charity, drawn to each other through their shared love of music. Award winning documentary and commercial director Mark Bone made the film, follows them as they branch out from singing covers to wirting original music, and recording and releasing their album.The film is playing here as part of Doc Edge, screening online from today til July 10. Kathryn speaks with drummer Spenser Murray and director Mark Bone.