The solidarity Ukrainians are showing each other in the wake of Russia's attack has made for a kinder society, says Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov.

Roger Lentle can tell a lot from a hoofprint. He's spent half a century hunting, tracking and studying deer. and has just published Tracking and Finding Deer in New Zealand. Deer are known to cause damage to our native forest, but Lentle thinks there's a case for the maintenance of controlled numbers, as source of revenue to support conservation. When not in the bush, Lentle is a Professor Emeritus in digestive biomechanics at Massey University.

We check in with people dealing with the damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle.

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English hip-hop poet and playwright Kae Tempest talks to Kim Hill about their gratitude for the creative process and hard-won journey to self-acceptance.

The world's first test-tube baby was born in 1978, and in vitro fertilisation has made having a baby possible for millions of people since. New York based writer Jenni Quilter explores reproductive technologies and the complexities of becoming a mother in her new book Hatching.

Professor Huhana Smith, who heads Whiti o Rehua School of Art at Massey University, has spent the last 20 years focussed on the restoration of her ancestral coastal whenua and awa at Kuku Beach, near Levin. One of the tools she's using is Biochar, the carbon-rich remains of slow-burned wood.

Jemima Khan drew on her own experience of cross cultural marriage, to former Pakistani prime minister and cricketer Imran Khan, when writing her new film What's Love Got to Do With it.

Scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. Today he's untangling the somewhat slippery term 'Neoliberalism', which is used to describe the economic agenda embraced by New Zealand governments from the mid 1980's, which resulted in state asset sales and deregulation of key industries.

It's been a decade since New Zealand author Eleanor Catton's novel The Luminaries won the Man Booker Prize, making then 28-year-old Catton the youngest author ever to win the award. This week she released her hotly anticipated third novel Birnam Wood, a psychological thriller set in the South Island, with an ecological battle between good and evil at its heart.