Nine To Noon

In her latest book novelist and screenwriter Delia Ephron chronicles a time of extreme loss in her life: the deaths of her beloved sister and her husband of 32 years, both to cancer.

UK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Lynn to talk about the increasing pressure Boris Johnson is facing over Partygate, despite his apology.

Lynn talks to Dr Vickie Shim at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute about how the data will be used in a simulation model she's working on and Dr Samantha Holdsworth, CEO and director of research at Matai who explains why they hope to set up a gold standard - and objective - test for concussion.

Lynn speaks with Professor Jim Secord, a world authority on Darwin, and Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project at the Cambridge University Library.

If you're over 65, New Zealand is a good place to be but it's a different story if you're under 25, according to new research. On average, younger Kiwis are more lonely and less wealthy than their elders, says Dominick Stephens, Chief Economic Adviser to the NZ Treasury.

Science commentator Dr Allan Blackman joins Lynn to look at new reseach into how the sun's energy can be converted into electricity more efficiently. At the moment silicon solar cells can only manage 10 - 15 % conversion, so the hunt is on for more efficient materials. And April 20 marks a big day for science: in 1862 Louis Pasteur demonstrates the process we've come to know as pasteurisation and in 1902 Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolate radioactive radium salts. Allan Blackman is a Professor of Chemistry, School of Science, Auckland University of Technolog

When Glenda Kane saw a small boy run up to talk to a veteran who'd been standing alone and staring out to sea after an Anzac Day event, it made her curious.

Music reviewer Jess Fu joins Lynn to share a new track with a sci-fi theme from Automatic, one from electronic-soft-rock artist Jack J and a song from relative newbie Hanbee, a Korean-New Zealander indie-pop artist based in Tamaki.

Shaun Barnett reviews The Boy from Gorge River by Chris Long, published by HarperCollins NZ

His recipes are hardy, traditional and heavy on the booze -  and they've made the self-styled Hebridean Baker, Coinneach MacLeod, an international culinary sensation.