Self-confidence is the most important asset when you're alone on treacherous seas, says world-record-holding solo sailor Lisa Blair. In May 2022, she became the fastest person in the world to sail non-stop and unassisted around Antarctica.

Amor Towles, the best-selling author of A Gentleman in Moscow, has a new book of short stories Table for Two.

Massey University's School of Veterinary Science have taken home an international prize for their work replacing live animals with models in the classroom.

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is often used as an example of how overexploitation of limited resources can result in a catastrophic societal collapse. But new research from the Columbia Center for Archaeology is challenging the long-held idea that islanders chopped down palm trees at an unsustainable rate leading to an 'ecocide'.

Millions of UK voters will be heading to the polls in the coming week to cast their votes in the July 4th general election.

Our US correspondent Caroline Malone discusses the implications of the latest Biden-Trump US presidential debate.

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Mike joins Susie to chat about his new role, the changing face of the media, and to play a few favourite tracks.

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Beatles historic - and hysterical - visit to Australasia. When We Was Fab: Inside The Beatles Australasian Tour 1964 is the culmination of a lifetime's research by Beatles experts, Andy Neill and Greg Armstrong, and features many previously unseen photographs and never before shared stories from the time.

New Zealand actor Temuera Morrison says making the historic film Ka Whawhai Tonu "woke him up" to his Māori ancestors' strength and suffering.