Lockdown made Auckland comedian Chris Parker an Instagram sensation. He talks to Kim Hill about his recent wedding and new book Here For a Good Time: Organised Thoughts From A Disorganised Mind.

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As a fashion maker and curator Doris de Pont's career has been dedicated to what we wear and why. And it's in the blood: both of her grandfathers contributed to the garment industry in the Netherlands, where her parents emigrated from just before her birth. After a fabulous career in design and business in 2010 Du Pont founded the innovative New Zealand Fashion Museum. Now she is organising Aotearoa's contribution to Global Fashioning Assembly, a hybrid event moving around different far-flung places in the world, October 21-23 with a kaupapa of decolonising fashion.

'Relentless Attrition' and 'Infernal Assault' - the names of guitarist Sally Gates's early '00s bands betray her beginnings in the Auckland death metal scene. Since, she has moved to the United States and become a regular in New York's experimental musical scene, playing and composing with guitar with strong stylistic elements from both metal and jazz.

Belgian-American psychotherapist Esther Perel talks to Kim Hill about the modern religion of romance and the "relationship accelerator" that is Covid-19.

In a remarkable literary feat Catherine Chidgey's seventh novel The Axeman's Carnival is told entirely from the perspective of a magpie on a high country farm. T

After 39 days in office the UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has done a dramatic U-turn on her tax-cut plans in an effort to reassure financial markets. She has also dropped her close ally Kwasi Kwarteng as UK finance minister, replacing him as Chancellor with former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

When the Chinese Communist Party elite gather in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday 15 October for the 20th Party Congress, all will not be as it seems.

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