The massive toll Cyclone Gabrielle has taken on Northland residents, roading, rail, businesses and infrastructure is now unfolding as most communication and power has been restored. Te Tai Tokerau Economic Development Agency, Northland Inc says the focus is on recovery, but in many parts of the region the damage and suffering is ongoing and intense. Northland Inc Chief Executive Paul Linton predicts the Government money already allocated to the Far North and Northland will be massively oversubscribed and they'll soon have to ask for more. Kathryn will also speak to Nancy Kareroa-Yorke, who is the Area council chair for NZ Red Cross in Northland about what communities are needing most and to Pera Paniora who is the Maori Ward councillor in Kaipara.

Ruapehu skiers will be able take to the slopes this winter - but many questions remain about how Whakapapa and Turoa ski fields will operate. Ruapehu Alpine Lifts remains in voluntary administration but administrator John Fisk has announced it will "soon" sell winter season passes for 2023. No precise date or cost has been outlined, nor has the status of life pass holders been clarified. RAL had received $10 million from the government, but administrator John Fisk says more is needed. A group of life pass holders and the Save Mt Ruapehu Skifields Group are soon to form an incorporated society, as part of a proposal for the ski fields to be community owned and not for profit. Kathryn speaks with PWC partner and RAL co-administrator Richard Nacey and Robert Krebs, from the Life Pass Holders Association, and member of the creditors committee.

Science commentator Allan Blackman joins Kathryn on International Women's Day to look at scientists who didn't receive recognition for their work because they were women - highlighting the case of astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell. He'll also talk about a recent decision in Scotland to stop its hospitals using the anaesthetic desflurane because of the threat it poses to the environment.

Welsh born, Matt Morgan is an intensive care doctor, researcher and author, currently working in Western Australia. Dr Morgan says we can look to nature to provide valuable lessons and solutions to solve some 21st century medical problems. During the early days of the Covid pandemic, while while working in intensive care, Dr Morgan wrote "A letter from the ICU" which has become one of the most read articles published in the British Medical Journal. His first book, Critical, has been translated into four languages, and his latest book One Medicine delves into how understanding animals can save human lives.

Kirsten joins Kathryn to look at the songs that have been turned into a rallying cry for people, or are more well-known than the official national anthems of a particular country. She shares some goodies from the US, Australia, Scotland, Korea - and the unofficial national anthem of New Zealand!

Hundreds of people have had their say in a survey on Marlborough's roading big fix, after extensive flood damage in weather events over the last two years. Stargazers are looking forward to the Omaka Observatory reopening after being closed over summer and a locally made gin has gone global, picking up a huge award and subsequently plenty of orders

Louise O'Brien reviews Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood, published by Penguin Random House.

Group singing is not only good for our health – it's also a powerful and peaceful way to raise a collective voice, says English singing therapist Julia Hollander. "The singing voice can reach out towards other people … and towards a kind of better world,'' she tells Kathryn Ryan.

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to look at calls for a royal commission into how the only producer of gold in Australia sold diluted gold to China and allowed a prominent gang member to by $27,000 worth of bullion without background checks. Perth Mint is owned by Western Australia and the situation gold bars could leave taxpayers with a $9b buy-back on their hands. Official interest rates were raised for the 10th consecutive time yesterday, PM Anthony Albanese heads to India today on an official state visit and Virgin Australia will become the first airline in Australia to dispatch a flight on which every job in the air and on the ground will be performed by a woman.

A new online menstrual health resource is being launched today to address the gap in adolescents' knowledge about menstruation and common conditions like endometriosis. More than 27 percent of young women miss school each month due to severe period pain, and more than 70 percent of under 24 year olds have bad periods. Endometriosis affects one in nine women and girls, but most experience lengthy delays, an average of 8.7 years, to get a diagnosis. The online platform called What About Me? has been developed by Deborah Bush, who founded Endometriosis New Zealand. It builds on a menstrual health and endometriosis programme which ran in schools from 1998 to 2019, and was a world first at the time. Deborah Bush is the director of What About Me? and has spent the last two years focused on getting her resource to reach a wider audience, by going online.