As you've heard Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinbugh has died at nearly 100 years of age. So if you think he'd been around forever, he pretty much had! Victoria Arbiter who happens to be the daughter of long time royal reporter Dickie Arbiter, is herself a royal commentator based in the United States. The Prince, she says, had been ailing for a while now so his death comes as no great surprise.

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Scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week he's considering controversial Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, author of 2018's super-selling self-help guide 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Peterson has recently released a follow up Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life. McLauchlan regularly contributes essays to The Spinoff and released his first collection, Tranquillity and Ruin in February of this year. He's also author of comic noir novels Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley and Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley.

New York Times technology columnist and host of the podcast Rabbit Hole, Kevin Roose is the author of Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation, in which he lays out a vision for how humanity can live well in the age of machines. Roose says we don't need to become more like machines - hyper-efficient, data-driven workhorses - to survive. Instead, he says, we should focus on being more human and doing the kinds of creative, inspiring and meaningful things even the most advanced AI can't do.

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the late Sir Paul Callaghan's legendary 'vision' speech at the McGuinness Institute event where he presented the idea of New Zealand becoming a place where talent wants to live and that 100 inspired entrepreneurs could turn this country around. Sir Paul talked about lifting our activities in science, technology and engineering and he advocated sustainability. The McGuinness Institute hosted a public webinar to mark the anniversary, reuniting many who were present on that day. The CEO of Callaghan Innovation, Vic Crone, assesses how far Aotearoa has come with Sir Paul's vision.

In her book Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film Helen O'Hara explores the role of women - both in front of the camera and behind it - since the birth of Hollywood. The dawn of cinema saw women take the lead in many areas of film making, only to be pushed aside and their contributions written out of film history. Helen O'Hara sees the tide turning again with a new generation of women shaping some of the biggest films and demanding gender equality. Helen O'Hara is a film journalist who writes for Empire magazine and co-hosts The Empire Film Podcast.

Javier Blas is chief energy correspondent at Bloomberg News and coauthor of The World For Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources. The book aims to lift the lid on the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard and sell the earth's resources no matter how corrupt, famine-stricken or worn-torn the country they come from. Some traders also gain political power despite sanctions and regulations - helping Saddam Hussein to sell his oil, fuelling the Libyan rebel army during the Arab Spring, and funnelling cash to Vladimir Putin's Kremlin.

Lingering symptoms such as crippling fatigue, "brain fog", breathlessness, heart palpitations, chest pain and aching muscles or joints are a grim reality for a subset of people infected with Covid-19. Women are more likely to be affected than men and it can hit people whose infections were mild or who were asymptomatic. Many of these Covid "long haulers" feel they are not being listened to by their doctors and have had their distress dismissed. Dr David Putrino is the director of rehabilitation innovation at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and works with Covid-19 patients at Mount Sinai's Center for Post-Covid Care.

Dr Tom Doyle, who is a priest, canon lawyer and addictions therapist, this week gave evidence to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry faith-based redress hearing in Auckland, where he blamed the hierarchy and structure of the Catholic Church for abuse by priests. Since 1982, he has been involved in the issue of clergy sexual abuse, beginning with his work as the staff canon lawyer at the Vatican Embassy in Washington DC. His involvement includes pastoral care of victims and their families, canonical defence advocate for accused clerics, consultant to dioceses and religious communities and as an expert witness and consultant in civil and criminal cases throughout the United States and other countries. The Abuse in Care Inquiry will be publishing its Redress report (on abuse in the care of both state and faith-based institutions) and giving recommendations later this year. Its final report and further recommendations will be released in 2023. Information for abuse survivors can be found on the Abuse in Care website. https://www.abuseincare.org.nz/

Kim Hill reads listener feedback for 27 March 2021.