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Kate De Goldi, one of New Zealand's most celebrated authors, joins Perlina and Mihi to share some great books.

Actor Elizabeth Banks has taken a step away from her usual block busters to play the lead role in a New Zealand medical drama A Mistake.

A photo book paying tribute to 32 of New Zealand's indie book stores has hit the shelves, fittingly on New Zealand Bookshop Day. Bold Types - Indie Bookshops of Aotearoa New Zealand is a collection of crafted stories and quirky insights - with the booksellers describing their businesses, their communities and the joy of pairing readers with the right books. The shops' unique characters, their backrooms and even resident pets, have been captured by one of the country's most celebrated photographers, Jane Ussher. Jane and Masterton bookshop owner David Hedley - whose family has been in the book business since 1907 - join Perlina to discuss Bold Types, and the art of selling books.

From November 1st, Pharmac will fully fund Estrogel, which currently costs at least $40 a month. Professor Bev Lawton talks about the impact.

Susie Ferguson opens up about becoming a war correspondent at only 25, while taking 15 painkillers a day to cope with her then undiagnosed endometriosis.

Mark van Kaathoven has sent no more than four bags of green waste to the tip in the last 15 years - instead using that waste to make sponge gardens.

My Marae: in the latest in our occasional series Mihi visits Te Pai o Hauraki, a Ngati Tamatera marae to speak to historian and kaikorero Larn Wilkinson.

Australian "Living Treasure" Tim Winton's new novel Juice is a dystopian thriller mapping out a future so devastated by climate catastrophe it's nearly unbearable.

Artist and fashion designer Jeanine Clarkin who's transforming an invasive seaweed into something truly special.