Australian journalist Trent Dalton's best-selling 2018 novel Boy Swallows Universe is based on his own tough childhood in seedy '80s Brisbane. He talks to Kim Hill about his love of diving deep, the myth of altogether 'bad' people and his upcoming book Shimmering Skies.

This week Doug Wilson addresses our typical level of happiness as we age. Why is this so important, how does this fluctuate through life, and what can we do to change it?

Motown legend Gladys Knight will perform with a nine-piece band at a sold out show at the Civic Theatre in Auckland on Thursday 13 February, and at Christchurch's Town Hall on Saturday 15 February.

Op-shops and second hand shops are full to bursting, thanks to a rising cultural obsession with decluttering and minimalism. Adam Minter's first book Junkyard Planet (2014) examined the US$500 million global waste industry. He's well qualified, having grown up in a junkyard in Minnesota.

Are you a leg-jiggler, doodler, hair twiddler or pen clicker? If so, you're not alone. Dr Kat Arney is a science writer and broadcaster who has interviewed academics, neuroscientists and fidgeters for her BBC podcast Fidget On Four.

With more than 200 deaths and at least 9,000 confirmed cases, countries currently unaffected (including New Zealand) are bracing for the arrival of the disease. Dr Chris Smith, consultant virologist at Cambridge University and one of BBC Radio 5 Live's Naked Scientists, joins us for an update.

Kim Hill reads listener feedback for Saturday Morning for 25 January 2020.

Poet and writer Kate Camp returns for the latest instalment of Kate's Klassics. This week she reviews Elizabeth Bowen's 1948 novel, The Heat of the Day.

Australia-based Nelson-born creative Anton Thomas is putting the art back into cartography with beautiful hand-drawn maps. His giant (1.2 metre by 1.5 metre) map North America: Portrait of A Continent took an estimated 4000 hours and nearly 5 years to complete. It covers the continent from Greenland in the North to Panama in the South and contains delightfully detailed miniature portraits drawn from each state and region's culture, geography and history. It was recognised as one of the best maps of 2016 by National Geographic.

Since 2003, Renwick School principal Simon Heath has been involved in developing the Mistletoe Bay Eco Village and Camp Ground, an outdoor activity centre in the Marlborough Sounds. Thousands of people now flock there every year to kayak and to experience the great outdoors. School groups make up about one fifth of the numbers and a charitable foundation's also been set up, offering scholarships to disadvantaged children so they can experience it too.