What if Dr Frankenstein's monster had been cast away in a fjord in Aotearoa's deep south? This is the proposition explored by Vincent O'Sullivan in Mary's Boy, Jean Jacques, and other stories out next month.

On the islands off the coast of Iran in the Strait of Hormuz there's an ancient belief the winds can possess you, causing illness or disease.Hoda Afshar has been visiting the islands since 2015 and recently published her photobook Speak the Wind. Raised in Tehran during the war between Iran and Iraq, Afshar is interested in finding new ways to approach documentary image-making.

Ezra Hirawani is the co-founder of the country’s first kaupapa Māori electricity retailer Nau Mai Rā.

With a full-scale invasion of Ukraine now underway, Putin has claimed the attack is “a special military operation” to defend the populations in the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk from a “genocidal” regime. Marples is a professor of Russian and East European history at the University of Alberta.

Twenty-five years since the creation of her work Nothing™, artist Fiona Jack is sharing a massive new LED light work entitled Everything on the Auckland waterfront.

In 2018, the whole world was captivated by the story of Wild Boar football team that had gone missing in Thailand.  Civilian cave divers Rick Stanton and John Volanthen were the first people to find the team alive and well, after diving further into the Tham Luang cave than anyone had managed before. The incredible story is now told in the BAFTA-nominated documentary The Rescue, now screening on National Geographic.

Professor Kurt Krause from the Department of Biochemistry at University of Otago says we should be looking to manufacture and develop our own anti-viral treatments and vaccines in New Zealand.

Stefan Wolff, a professor of International Security at the University of Birmingham, says diplomacy has failed to deter Putin and pull Russia back from the brink - and it is unlikely to be useful in the current situation.

. Kyiv correspondent Jessica Golloher joins the show with the latest developments.

Between panic buying and violent protests, the global pandemic has highlighted some of humankind's worst behaviours. But Dutch writer and historian Rutger Bregman insists that despite being painted as a selfish species, humans are hardwired for kindness.