Author and art writer Megan Dunn joins Kim to talk about two current shows with very different approaches to displaying public art collections.

In his new book Pathogenesis Dr Jonathan Kennedy offers a radical new frame to view human history. He argues that infectious diseases have been a decisive force in shaping humanity, from the development of agriculture to the global rise of religion, and that they are not just something that happens to us, but a fundamental part of who we are.

This weekend live American late-night shows - The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live plus those hosted by Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers - go off-air and turn to repeats as more than 11,000 television and film writers strike for the first time in 15 years.

Award-winning writer Dr Emma Espiner (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou) talks to Kim Hill about her unconventional upbringing, ditching her recruitment job for med school and how New Zealand can improve healthcare for Māori.

Dr George Gross, a visiting research fellow at King's College London and co-founder of the British Coronations Project, says the crowning of William the Conqueror in 1066 set the tone for future coronations. While his reign was widely considered a success, the coronation itself was a disaster.

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to head to central London this weekend to celebrate King Charles's Coronation. We catch up with the BBC World Service's UK Political Correspondent Rob Watson after a day of preparations.

Listener Feedback for 29 April 2023.

Reflecting on what makes a place home, Alie Benge's collection of essays Ithaca takes us to wildly different places from her past: from Ethiopia as a child to time spent in the Australian Army and Bible school, and on to a 800-kilometre trek along the Camino De Santiago.

In Australian author and broadcaster Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms he delves into the life of medieval wanderers who travelled to the outer edges of the known world during Islam's fabled 'Golden Age'.

Romantic comedy or rom-com, is often used as shorthand for something shallow and lacking in substance, but Minneapolis author Curtis Sittenfeld loves them.