Award-winning British playwright Dennis Kelly's work is both funny and confronting. His play Girls and Boys is being performed by the Auckland Theatre Company and opens next month.

Journalist Sarah Catherall has written the book she wishes she had when her own long-term relationship imploded.

Does music have the power to make a cities economy, tourism, and quality of life better? Shain Shapiro is a leading music and cultural policy thinker. In his book This Must Be The Place he examines the impact music can have on how cities are developed, built, managed and governed.

A severe outbreak of a new variant of mpox with a death rate of 10% triggered the WHO to declare a global health emergency last week. Cambridge University clinical virologist and naked scientist Dr Chris Smith - who was our go-to guy as the Covid pandemic unfolded.

Zoological correspondent and author Jules Howard on the revolutionary story of eggs.

When playwright and performer Ihaka Martyn (Ngati Tuwharetoa, Te Arawa) took an Introduction to Maori Culture course at University he was a pakeha identifying young man named Isaac who was "respectfully learning about the indigenous culture". Despite some knowledge of his whakapapa he felt "not Maori enough". His autobiographical one man show He Maori? weaves together stand-up comedy, waiata and theatrical performance to explore the evolution of his identity.

Lonneke Botello Hernandez is touring New Zealand with her book The Food Fountain of Youth, which offers advice about 'nutrients with science-based benefits for anti-aging beauty'. Lonneke and Colin discuss whether there is such a thing as anti-aging, and if you can really look more beautiful from the inside out.

With Spring on the horizon, there's plenty to be getting on with in the garden. Kath Irvine joins Colin to share her August to-do list. Kath is the author of The Edible Backyard, a practical guide to growing organic fruit and vegetables all year round.

Hamilton is playing host to an outstanding lineup of darts talent this weekend as the NZ Darts Masters takes place at Globox Arena. Refereeing the special event. Russ Bray, who is otherwise known as 'The Voice', due to his unique style of calling. Bray, who hails from the UK.

The dream of writers the world over is a debut novel turning into a worldwide publishing sensation - and that's exactly what's happened for Amy Neff, a first-time author from Connecticut.