Sports commentator Sam Ackerman is in the Auckland studio.

The cultural, historical, environmental and educational significance of the plants and trees gracing the University of Auckland's campuses is explained by Jason Fell. He's the University's Horticulturist Team Leader and talks to Kathryn about the planning, planting and maintaining of trees and plants across different sites. The City campus alone has more than 400 trees.

Activist and Iwi leader Mike Smith has been given the go-ahead to sue seven New Zealand companies for climate-related damage. Victoria discusses what this means.

One year on from Cyclone Gabrielle's devastating effect on Hawkes Bay, Lauren examines where recovery is at.

Ralph McAllister reviews Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward by Oliver Soden published by Orion Publishing.

Last year Yoson An starred in Plane alongside Gerard Butler where he tried to prevent a passenger jet crashing into a Philippine island overrun by murderous rebels. He speaks to Kathryn.

Danielle discusses former President Donald Trump's scathing comments about NATO countries at a recent rally in South Carolina, which drew little surprise from the crowd. And President Joe Biden has hit back at a special counsel report which scrutinises his memory, and claims he can no longer remember major milestones from his life. Danielle Kurtzleben is a political correspondent assigned to NPR's Washington Desk.

Bridgette Toy-Cronin, an associate professor from Otago University's faculty of law, warns if cuts impact the courts, it could become a constitutional issue.

There's frustration at the rate of progress to enact a national action plan for managing invasive weed species.

As more people work remotely New Zealand is seeing a hollowing out of inner cities which poses questions over how to sustain central area populations and the use of commercial buildings and carparking buildings.