This week chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt called out the government on its lack of progress in implementing its Healthy Homes Standards, saying it puts New Zealand in breach of our international law obligations. Back in February 2020 those standards were commended by Leilani Farha, who was visiting at the time in her former role as UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing.

Descending deep down into the waters off the west coast of Ireland, to where there is no light, underwater chemist Sam Afoullouss has a robot collecting marine organisms in his search for new medicines.

Captain Robert Scott's last diary entry, as he lay freezing and starving to death on an ill-fated South Pole journey, concludes: "for God's sake look after our people". Uppermost were the three women who would now be widows: his wife Kathleen, Oriana Wilson, and Lois Evans - the Welsh working-class wife of a Petty Officer.

Egyptian veterinarian Amir Khalil is widely known as 'the war vet', having spent years rescuing animals from disaster areas and war zones.

Feedback for Saturday Mornings with Kim Hill September 24th

After 17 years hosting Nights, RNZ presenter Bryan Crump heads over to our fine music network RNZ Concert this month. He joins Kim Hill to play some favourite songs and chat about his career.

Robbie Burton has been at the helm of independent publishers Potton & Burton since 1990, when it was called Craig Potton Publishing. Having published countless non-fiction titles over the decades, Burton has finally put pen to paper to write his own.

At 85 years old, Helen Dew is a sustainability legend in Carterton.

The life and work of Sylvia Durrant, otherwise known as Auckland's Bird Lady, is celebrated in a new book which is part graphic biography part environmental handbook authored by Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing.

Psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick explores the intriguing world of mind-control in his book Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control.