In 1966 Robert 'Skip' Gardner hopped the Tasman and brought a small group of grifters with him to run a company that was looking distributors to sell its cosmetics through dairies and milk-bars. The story of New Zealand's biggest swindles, by true-crime author Scott Bainbridge - who's also written Without Trace and Still Missing.

Sonja de Friez reviews The Crown in Vogue by Robin Muir and Josephine Ross, published by Hachette

Australia correspondent Chris Niesche looks at efforts to recoup millions from victims of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick, plans to restrict digital streaming services from having access to certain live sports and more rain is forecast for a flood-weary New South Wales.

A New Plymouth based freight trucking and warehousing business is entering the coasting shipping market - with a cargo ship capable of running on methanol - if and when the biofuel is available. Kathryn speaks with MOVE executive director Chris Dunphy.

A group of Ruapehu shareholders and life pass holders says appalling governance by the board of Ruapehu Alpine Lifts is to blame for the company going into voluntary administration. Kathryn speaks to Sam Clarkson spokesperson for the Ruapehu shareholders and Life Pass Holders group, and owner of the Skotel at the foot of Whakapapa ski field also John Fisk - of PwC, one of two appointed as the voluntary administrators and Leigh Berry, who runs Ruapehu Mountain Lodge.

Media commentator Andrew Holden joins Kathryn to look at attempts by Canada to introduce legislation similar to Australia's that would compel the likes of Google and Meta to negotiate deals with publishers. Select committee hearings have continued into the TVNZ/RNZ merger and Stuff's online video about foetal alcohol spectrum disorder has won an international award. Andrew Holden is a journalist for more than 30 years including five as Editor of The Press (in Christchurch) and four as Editor-in-Chief of The Age in Melbourne.

He's been the face of, and driving force behind, kids' television in New Zealand for decades. But Jason Gunn is turning over a new leaf - literally - with the release of a book he's co-written with his brother Andrew. It's called Jason Mason and the World's Most Powerful Itching Powder. Kathryn talks to him about the elements of a good children's book, his time creating and presenting children's television and how he's been helping adults to conquer their fear of public speaking.

Business commentator Nikki Mandow has been looking at the big issues from the Agri-food-tech 2035 Oceania Summit, including a focus on alternative food proteins and difficulty getting funding for innovation in the agriculture. Nikki Mandow is Newsroom's business editor

Stella Chrysostomou of Volume Books in Nelson reviews Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie, published by Penguin Random House.

Journalist-turned-author Jane Harper's first novel The Dry was published in 2016 and quickly snapped up and turned into a movie starring Eric Bana. Her second novel Force of Nature, a sequel to The Dry, is also set to get the big screen treatment with filming recently completed in regional Victoria. Jane followed up with two more novels, The Lost Man and The Survivors. Her fifth novel, Exiles, has just been released... this time her detective Aaron Falk is in South Australian wine country investigating the disappearance of a mother whose 6-week-old baby is left behind at a pram at a festival. She joins Kathryn to talk about how her signature settings have helped to kickstart a whole genre of Australian back-country crime. If you're keen to hear more from Jane - and you live in Auckland - she'll be doing an event at the Takapuna Library tonight.