Noel Hyde is one of New Zealand's most respected wildlife taxidermists, but it's with live birds as a falconer he's now making his mark, helping save karearea, ruru and barn owls.

Auckland nurse Doron Semu is using a traditional Sāmoan art form to bring together LGBTQ+ Pasifika youth. In his mid-20s, feeling disconnected from his Sāmoan heritage, Doron learnt how to make the barkcloth panels known as siapo. He now runs siapo-making workshops as a safe space for fellow LGBTQ+ Pasifika youth to do the same.

Ocham winner Chidgey has a new novel Pet, set in New Zealand in 1984 and 2014, which follows a 'teacher's pet', wrestling with her admiration for that teacher.

Listener feedback 13 May 2023.

Known for his contemporary takes on Shakespeare, Aotearoa theatre director and scholar David Lawrence believes the bard's intentions have been long compromised by being organised into the genres of Comedy, History and Tragedy. I

The Yanomami people of the Amazon rainforest are one of the last Indigenous groups living as hunter-gatherers and small-scale farmers. They also have the most diverse gut microbiome of any community studied in the world.

From performing on street corners in India to the National Theatre in London, comedian, actor, writer, and blues singer Sameena Zehra has spent her life telling stories and, in her own words, holding power to account.

Aotearoa's fungi are fascinating, freaky and fantastical according to Otautahi based forager and food writer Liv Sisson. We have 22,000 species, including one that hunts bugs, a lichen named after Jacinda Ardern, the famous bright blue mushroom, and a couple that even glow in the dark.

Mstyslav Chernov is part of a small team of Associated Press Ukrainian journalists who this week won a Pulitzer Prize for their fearless reporting from Mariupol last year. For nearly three weeks they were the only international journalists in the port city, exposing the horrors of the Russian siege including an airstrike on a children's hospital and maternity ward.

Listener Feedback for 6 May 2023.