It's a subject that many find uncomfortable, but is a necessity - how to handle the end of life. Kathryn is Treza Gallogly, she's the chair of the End of Life Doula Alliance Aotearoa.

Around the motu: Piers Fuller reports from the Wairarapa

Lisa Adler from Unity Books Wellington reviews Flashlight by Susan Choi, published by Jonathan Cape.

Librarians say since fines for overdue books were ditched visitors are flocking back to public libraries - whose role in a community now extends far beyond issuing books.

In his latest book, investigative reporter Jared Savage explains how the illicit drug trade, depicted in big budget movies or television like Netflix's Narcos, is happening here. Underworld is the third in his series delving into organised crime and the drug trade.

A warning proposed moves to shake up who gets to make all decisions on the conservation estate would be hard to undo.

A New Zealand owned cloud data storage firm is sceptical about the scale of investment in New Zealand claimed by the tech giant Amazon Web Services.

The Mental Health Minister has announced a funding boost for eating disorder services of $4 million a year - a 20 percent lift on current funding levels.

It's the start of a big week for the All Blacks, can they defend their Eden Park record having not lost a rugby test there since 1994. Sam continues to discuss rugby as Portia Woodman-Wickliffe sets the Rugby World Cup alight, and back home the Ranfurly Shield changes hands two weeks in a row. Ultramarathoner Ruth Croft makes history, and how will New Zealand's athletes go at the World Athletic Championships in Tokyo?

Manapouri is the largest hydro power station in New Zealand. Located on the edge of Lake Manapouri's West Arm in Fiordland National Park - construction began in 1964 and over eight years, 1800 workers toiled on it in punishing conditions - constructing the power station 200 metres below a granite mountain in an underground cavern. Oral historian Dr Rosemary Baird has interviewed 18 workers who were part of the project - she's written a book about them - called The Middle of Nowhere - published by Canterbury University Press. She joins Kathryn with excerpts her interviews, who bring the story to life.