Waves are reported to be just starting to top the roads on Wellington's South Coast where residents have been ordered to leave ahead of predicted storm surges.

Kennedy recounts highlights from a recent National Geographic expedition cruise around the outer islands of Britain and Ireland. He'll cover the Staffa, an island in the Inner Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland, famous for its stunning columnar basalt formations, a sea cavern called Fingal's Cave (popularised in music by Felix Mendelssohn) and ... puffins.

One for the cheese lovers - a dinner consisting of a cheese tasting menu. Even the cocktails have a cheesy influence - think a blue cheese martini. It's the brain child of Pierre Fenoux from Wellington's Jano Bistro and will be held in Zealandia as part of the Loemis Festival.

Tracey, Liam and Kathryn discuss recent events in politics including the post-Budget mop-up.

Tom talks to Kathryn about Wellington's rates being restricted to 5.8%, questions over the behaviour of security guards at the Ultra music festival, the publicity spending by Wellington's new water entity, Tiaki Wai and a cat survival story form the Berhampore floods.

Stella Chrysostomou of VOLUME Books in Nelson reviews Frank the Monster by Mats Strandberg, published by Gecko Press.

Best-selling British author Matt Haig is set to release a sequel to his multi-million-selling novel The Midnight Library.

As investigations continue into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, British historian and biographer Andrew Lownie updates his groundbreaking book on the former Duke and Duchess of York.

Iran has fired multiple waves of missiles at northern Israel.

A new book out today says warning signs were missed ahead of the terror attacks in Christchurch on March 15th 2019.