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Fun Facts about the game 'Hopscotch', Codi helps us learn how to say 'wait' in te reo Māori, and tamariki talk about holidays. There's a book review and heaps of jokes too!

We start a new series of time-travel adventures with Ali & Gab, there's a brain-teaser for you to solve, and Laura talks about the book Sleep Little Kiwi, Sleep. Plus, picnics, jokes, and Cool to Kōrero.

In this final episode, Shamubeel brings together all the things he learned about how struggling towns can get their mojo back. That involves 'playing to your strengths' - often the things a small town has that big cities lack - but also something that economists don't normally measure: community, self-reliance and a can-do attitude.

On today's First Up pod: protests around Europe, Monday's fruit and vegetable report, a leading vaccinologist on meningicoccal disease risks, and the voters of Manurewa share their concerns ahead of the election.

What happens when the abuse becomes so relentless that high-profile women start asking themselves: Is this worth it?

A wrap of the day's big stories

All the top stories and other headlines from the day

Karl Puschmann joins Perlina with his November TV picks. He starts with It Gets Worse, out on Neon and narrated by Zadie Smith. Three university friends in their twenties face eviction in London, and a hole one of them punches in the wall sets off the trouble. Karl calls it sharp and very funny, with plenty of cringe, and gives a content warning because sex is a big part of the show. Dead Ahead season two starts from 3 November, and Karl says the first episode is a cracking start. Miriama Smith plays a high-powered Maori lawyer whose ancestors come back to guide her, and Karl says it works like The Sixth Sense without the jump scares. Stick season two arrives on Apple TV on 4 November, and Karl says it has eased off the heavy-handed drama and gone back to the golf. Later in the month, Yellowjackets' final season arrives on 21 November, Blade Runner 2099 lands on Prime Video on 25 November, and 12 12 12 on Apple TV puts Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan in a European heist.

Painter Shane Cotton and writer Anthony Byrt talk about their book, a mix of history, biography and personal storytelling rather than a conventional art monograph. Byrt quotes his line that Cotton has been walking backwards into his own future for over 30 years. The two met in Brisbane in 2013 and spent the next decade in conversation, including at Cotton's studio in Palmerston North. Cotton grew up in Upper Hutt, drove trucks for his dad, and then went to art school in Christchurch, to the surprise of his family. He talks about his recurring image of preserved heads, and says there is something unsettled about them.

Kate Rodger reviews Primetime, directed by Lance Oppenheim and released by A24, which stars Robert Pattinson and Skyler Gisondo in an unauthorised biopic about Chris Hansen and To Catch a Predator. Pressure, directed by Anthony Maras, stars Brendan Fraser as General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Andrew Scott as meteorologist James Stagg, who is asked to forecast the weather for D-Day. Black Sheeps is the sequel to the 2006 New Zealand horror-comedy Black Sheep, with Nathan Meister returning as Henry.