Catriona Ferguson reviews Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce, published by Penguin

Grace Tame was named Australian of the Year in 2021 for her advocacy work for survivors of sexual assault.  And she's now told her story -- in her own words -- in a memoir called The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner.  She speaks to Kathryn about her life, activism and the impact of speaking out.

There's been high drama in Beijing at the conclusion of the Chinese Communist party five-yearly party congress. Asia correspondent Ed White talks to Kathryn about how any hopes of reconciliation between the west and China now fading.

Our Short Story competition judges, writers Harry Ricketts and Rebecca Reilly, announced the five winners of the 2022 Nine to Noon Short Story competition.

Anti-smoking groups are sounding the alarm at the growing number of vape shops in the country, with 300 new stores opening up since February alone. Kathryn speaks to Letitia Harding, chief executive of the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation and Janet Hoek, a professor of Public Health at the University of Otago.

There's growing concern for the mental health and wellbeing of doctors and medical specialists navigating a stressed health sector. In an editorial published in the NZ Medical Journal today, burnout, depression and anxiety are increasingly common diseases amongst doctors, impairing their ability to perform at work and home and cope with life stressors.

Film and TV reviewer Chris Schulz joins Kathryn to talk about the second season of The White Lotus (Neon), new Netflix series The Watcher - which is based on a creepy true story, and The Stranger (Netflix) a film also based on a true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.

Leaving home for the first time as a young adult can be a daunting prospect - not only for the leaver, but for anxious parents left behind. Joining Kathryn today to talk about the life skills parents can teach their kids is comedian, dad and Parenting Place pou tangata Pio Terei.

Technology correspondent Peter Griffin joins Kathryn to look at the hefty fines being introduced to the Australian parliament this week for repeated or serious privacy breaches, tech company earnings what do their results say about the health of the economy and what are some of the key tech takeaways from China's 20th Party Congress?

Quentin Johnson reviews The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman, published by Penguin Random House