During Australia's "Black Summer" of 2019-20 a bush fire nearly destroyed the farm where actress Rachel Ward and her actor husband Bryan Brown had been raising cattle for 33 years. This head-on confrontation with the climate crisis triggered Ward with a neighbour to pivot away from conventional agriculture practices and embrace regenerative farming.

During Australia's "Black Summer" of 2019-20 a bush fire nearly destroyed the farm where actress Rachel Ward and her actor husband Bryan Brown had been raising cattle for 33 years. This head-on confrontation with the climate crisis triggered Ward with a neighbour to pivot away from conventional agriculture practices and embrace regenerative farming. She's now a champion for the movement which aims to lower the ecological impact of farming and increase the health of the soil. Her documentary Rachel's Farm screens in cinemas and online in the Doc Edge festival in June.

From being assumed extinct, to a healthy population of over 500 birds, the resurrection of the takahe is an incredible story.

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (who turns 100 the day we air) is talking about the potential for war between the United States and China. Increasingly, such talk about our biggest trading partner - China - is not uncommon in New Zealand. Newsroom's national affairs editor Sam Sachdeva examines what's in store for New Zealand in his book The China Tightrope: Navigating New Zealand's Relationship with a World Superpower.

When smoking first became popular it was heavily marketed as being cool. We were even told it was healthy. The results have not been so good. Simon Chapman, an Emeritus Professor at University of Sydney, believes history is repeating itself again with vaping.

Dr Jonathan Howard says over 800,000 Americans would be alive today if the US had taken New Zealand's Covid approach.

We hear from our listeners 20 May 2023

Scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week, the life and work of influential twentieth century philosopher Hannah Arendt, whose books include The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition.

Between 2016 and 2018, dozens of North American diplomats stationed in Havana, Cuba, reported an array of health complaints which coincided with hearing strange sounds.

Husband and wife duo Dame Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie have become central to the film and theatre world. It's all in the family: while Miranda's mother Kate is one of Aotearoa's most respected actors, their daughter Thomasin is forging a career in Hollywood While Miranda acts and directs, Stuart writes.