Since the 2020 lockdown the way we view each other from afar has changed dramatically thanks to technology. FacingTime: Portraits of Geoff by Euan Macleod at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery is a series of 346 portrait paintings recording Macleod and Geoff Dixon's daily catch-ups on FaceTime.

As te reo becomes widespread, does Maori learning for Maori need to be prioritised? That's one of many pesky questions posed in the first episode of new Spinoff web series 2 Cents 2 Much. Answering them is Tamaki Makaurau kaiako and musician Jordyn Rapana aka Jordyn with a Why.

In their new book The Big Myth, Professor Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway document the rise of "market fundamentalism" over the 20th century, outlining Big Business's push to equate the free market with freedom and instil fear of government intervention.

Earlier this month Australia's most decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith lost his defamation case against three newspapers who reported he had murdered civilians in Afghanistan. While not a criminal trial, the court judged him responsible for the deaths of four Afghans while deployed during 2009-2012. Investigative journalist Nick McKenzie brought the allegations to the public eye and has spent five years working on the story.

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Author and art writer Megan Dunn joins Kim to talk about the pros and cons of having prizes for art.

There's strong hope this winter that the ice will be right for the Baxter Cup, New Zealand's oldest sporting trophy. The cup is for outdoor curling, yet bonspiels (curling tournaments) are increasingly threatened by climate change. They're no longer even held in the sport's birthplace of Scotland and the last Baxter Cup was held here in 2017.

Are humans really the smartest animal? Animal cognition expert Dr Justin Gregg thinks maybe not. In his new book If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal, he examines our exceptional brain power and finds it wanting.

Last month it was reported that children in the UK had been born using mitochondrial donation, eight years after the technique was regulated. The IVF procedure uses genetic material from a mother and father and a tiny amount from a third female donor, with the aim of preventing the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases.

Best-selling Latin American author Isabel Allende's new book The Wind Knows My Name reveals the brutal reality and lasting trauma caused by forced immigration and family separation.