Film and TV correspondent James Croot.

Ben Sedley a clinical psychologist on latest book is called Holding the Heavy Stuff - a self help guide for anyone who has struggled with low mood, self doubt, worries or mean thoughts about themselves.

Technology commentator Bill Bennett looks at Amazon's acquisition of Bee AI which makes a Fitbit-like device that listens in on your conversations. The UK's move to age verification  has led to a  spike in the downloads of Virtual Private Networks or VPNs and the worsening data breach at Tea, a women's dating safety app.

Last week film and TV reviewer Tom Augustine shared his picks of the New Zealand International Film Festival - this week James Croot joins Kathryn with his choices. With so many films on offer, no wonder there's no overlap! James Croot is film and television reviewer for Stuff

Louise O'Brien reviews Strong Words 4: The best of the Landfall Essay Competition, published by Otago University Press.

Huw Kingston and Laurence Mote are half-way through their 90-day, 4000-kilometre fund raising journey from the north to the south of the country, which will also seem them tackle the slopes of 24 ski areas.

UK correspondent Rob Watson joins Kathryn to talk about reaction to Prime Minister Keir Starmer's announcement Britain is ready to recognise Palestinian statehood and new talks to help avert any further industrial action by resident doctors and the mighty Lionesses.

Landslides are among this country's costliest natural hazards. Auckland Council has completed a detailed region wide study to map landslide susceptibility, the first since 1997. Kathryn is joined by Ross Roberts, the chief engineer at Auckland Council.

Another regional airline - Air Chathams - says it is considering cutting back its services, because of mounting cost pressures. Air Chathams' boss Duane Emeny and Cath O'Brien is executive director of the Board of Airline Representatives NZ (Barnz)

Science correspondent Allan Blackman joins Kathryn to discuss how a 15-year-old study claiming that a microorganism can thrive on the toxic element arsenic has been retracted by the journal Science - why did chemists and biologists have their concerns about it? A new study turns claims of eggs' effect on cholesterol on its head and a start-up energy company Marathon Fusion claims it can turn an isotope of mercury into gold, while creating clean energy via nuclear fusion... Allan Blackman is a Professor of Chemistry, School of Science, Auckland University of Technology.