Our Listener feedback for 18 December.

To most people Scrabble might seem a fun game to break out during the summer holidays, but for Alastair Richards it's serious business. Richards is the second New Zealand player to take the world's premier Scrabble title.

Arthur Brooks is a Harvard professor, social scientist, bestselling author, and the 'happiness correspondent' for The Atlantic. His weekly column, How To Build A Life helps point people towards creating more meaningful and fulfilling lives, and has spawned a spinoff podcast entitled How To Build A Happy Life.

Organic gardener Kath Irvine returns to share some tips around gardening this summer and to answer your questions.

The start of the 1920s was a traumatic time in New Zealand's history. Former chief of staff for the Prime Minister, Mike Munro brings together the story of an eagerly-anticipated rugby tour, and the troublesome memories of its time in his new book 1921: Rugby, Race and Empire - the result of hundreds of hours spent poring over newspapers from the time.

Writer and environmental advocate Tim Higham is trying to live, as he puts it from fish to fish in a house in the bush on Aotea Great Barrier Island. That's where we find him in his book Island Notes in which, Robinson Crusoe-like, Higham considers his sense of place while building a simpler life off-the-grid for his family.

As we head into the third year of the pandemic, a group of distinguished international scientists has published an opinion piece arguing that vaccine strategies need to shift focus from trying to stop infection, and move towards the prevention of severe disease and global equity in achieving high adult coverage. Professor Peter McIntyre from University of Otago is the lead author for the piece, and says New Zealand needs to get its objective straight as it heads into 2022.

The start of the 1920s was a traumatic time in New Zealand's history. Former chief of staff for the Prime Minister, Mike Munro brings together the story of an eagerly-anticipated rugby tour, and the troublesome memories of its time in his new book 1921: Rugby, Race and Empire - the result of hundreds of hours spent poring over newspapers from the time.

Listener Feedback for 11 December 2021.

Megan Dunn joins the show to discuss the intersection of art and life, looking at the ways art is and isn't good for our wellbeing. This week: Megan visited an art therapist, and liked it.