Nine To Noon

UK correspondent Matthew Parris joins Lynn to talk about how England plans to tackle Covid this winter, the dinner invitation from Boris Johnson that no former PM - except Theresa May - accepted, the big jump in food prices, a ban on the Chinese ambassador visiting Parliament and plans to introduce jet-ski patrol in the English Channel for illegal migrants.

A new mapping app has been launched by Ara HÄ«koi Aotearoa the New Zealand Walking Access Commission which hopes to open up new tracks for Kiwi hikers. Pocket Maps is a mobile app which puts charts and information about publicly accessible land in your hand.

New research finds over-breeding is causing some puppies' health to fail. The study from Sweden suggests some dogs carry a large amount of potentially harmful genes. Of those studied the Cavalier King Charles spaniel is most at risk.

What needs to be done to shore-up our hospitals if, and when, we open up our borders and stop having lockdowns? The government has indicated a change of direction in how we respond to Covid-19 - moving from lockdowns to relying on the health system.

Arts commentator Nina Tonga joins Lynn to talk about how galleries around the country have reopened their doors at level two - and got creative online. She'll look at Dane Mitchell's installation Post Hoc, which he reimagined as a new daily radio show, which listeners can tune into here at 5pm NZ time. Tai Moana Tai Tangata is a solo exhibition by Brett Graham which opened at City Gallery in early August, and If you're stuck in Auckland you can take the virtual tour of his exhibition at Govett Brewster, which launched late last month. Nina will also share her wish list of events happening around the country for the rest of the year.

Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi plays the main role of Will Ilolahia in the The Panthers' TV show. Set in 1974, the six-part series tells the story of the activists, the Polynesian Panthers during the infamous Dawn Raid era. The Panthers is on TVNZ on demand and it has just screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, where 20 year old Dimitrius was selected as a 'TIFF Rising Star'.

Melanie O'Loughlin of Lamplight Books reviews The Book of Difficult Fruit by Kate Lebo, published by Picador.

If the brain's 86 billion neurons were all randomly connected, the brain would have to be more than 20 kilometres wide to fit all those connections. Luckily, they're instead organised through brainscapes, or brain maps. Rebecca Schwarzlose is a cognitive neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and has just published Brainscapes: An Atlas of Your Life on Earth. She explains how the brain is full of maps; of the body, our senses, how we move, and crucial sources of information. And Rebecca isn't being metaphorical or using artistic license - these are actual maps in your brain. And it's not just a few of them; there's a whole atlas of them. Lynn asks Rebecca Schwarzlose what a brain map actually is.

Correspondent Karen Middleton joins Lynn to talk about the Covid divisions growing in Australia, even as vaccination rates rise. Anonymous donors have paid the legal fees of former Attorney General Christian Porter in his defamation case against the ABC over a rape allegation, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is off to meet US President Joe Biden and Quade Cooper has finally been allowed to become an Australian citizen.

The University of Canterbury's outreach programme UCMeXL aims to help Pacific students achieve higher results in all NCEA levels. It's been going for 10 years and Riki Welsh from the University's Pacific Development Team says the extra tuition study sessions are increasingly popular and are open to all high school students.