'Face, accept, float, let time pass' – that's the six-word prescription for anxiety devised by Australian doctor and self-help pioneer Claire Weekes (1903 - 1990). Yet despite her international bestsellers and rich contribution to how anxiety is understood and treated, Weekes has never quite got the credit she deserves. In her new biography The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code, journalist Judith Hoare tells Weekes' extraordinary story and tries to set the record straight.

Photographer Paul Conroy was with The Sunday Times' war correspondent Marie Colvin when the pair illegally crossed the border into Syria in February 2012. They were there to document the plight of civilians trapped in the besieged city of Homs, but it was to be Colvin's final assignment. In Under The Wire (Rialto Channel, Thursday 5th December) Conroy recounts what happened to him on the fateful mission and how he survived it. He also describes his friendship with Colvin, and a career spent working in some of the world's most dangerous trouble spots.

A man has been shot dead by police after several people were stabbed in an attack at London Bridge in the UK. The Met Police has declared the stabbing attack a terrorist incident. The suspect, who died at the scene, was believed to have been wearing a hoax explosive device, police said. Our correspondent Holly Hudson has an update from the scene.

Kim Hill reads listener feedback from Saturday Morning 23 November 2019.

Doug Wilson is a medical academic, former pharmaceutical executive, writer and the author of Ageing For Beginners. He takes an active interest in how we age, and what people are doing about it. He assesses two new drugs showing promise in the fight against Alzheimer's disease. And in Japan the country's ageing population is putting it at the forefront of R&D designed to make life easier as we age. So what can New Zealand learn from this glimpse into our own demographic future? Doug Wilson's new book Zeke Battle: Earthquake Boy is published by Erkel-Erkel Publishing.

Wendy S. Walters' early career majored on poetry but as her writing career continued she found herself getting drawn more and more towards non-fiction. Her 2015 collection Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal asked questions about how we can look at our present when we have so much trouble understanding our past. She's still looking for answers, particularly in an age of competing narratives that sometimes seem to have only a fleeting relationship with the 'facts' they claim to be based on. Walters is an associate professor of writing and design at Parsons, The New School, in New York and this year is a visiting associate professor of writing at Columbia University. She's currently in Wellington as an International Visiting Scholar at Massey University. She's also here for a fact finding trip for the NonfictionNOW conference taking place in Wellington in December next year and doing some preview events.

Nuclear Free. Ihumatao. Universal Suffrage...through history New Zealanders have been staunch about standing up for what they believe in. In Protest: Tautohetohe (Te Papa Press) curators Stephanie Gibson, Matariki Williams and Puawai Cairns present a hardback showcasing objects of resistance, persistence and defiance over the last 150 years. Assembled from items in Te Papa's own collection, and those sourced from other museums, activists and curators, the book contains everything from ploughs to placards, to dresses, banners, and a pair of very special anti-nuclear protest undies! And according to the authors, it's the stories behind the objects that are every bit as important as the items themselves.

She entered the popular imagination as the nameless 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets. But by all accounts, the poet, writer and teacher Emilia Bassano was a strong, passionate woman who deserved to be celebrated. The English playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm reclaims her neglected reputation in Emilia. The idea for her all-female play originally came from the artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe, and Lloyd Malcolm's third play (after The Wasp and Belongings) became her first major hit. It pushed theatrical boundaries with a deliberate policy of hiring people from groups often overlooked in the industry: it even became the first West End show to host a performance for parents and babies! Now, after a successful run on London's West End, New Zealand's about to become the first country to see Emilia internationally. And a film could be in the offing too. The play gets its international premiere at Auckland's Pop-Up Globe in March 2020.

The path to a vote over Bougainville's independence from Papua New Guinea has been bloody, long and circuitous. A brutal civil war through the Nineties on this group of islands some 700 kilometres east of PNG killed up to 20,000 people: that's 10 percent of its population. And New Zealand had strong ties to the peace deal brokered in 2001. RNZ Pacific journalist Don Wiseman has been covering events there for 16 years. And his colleague Johnny Blades is on the ground sampling views in the lead up to the historic vote taking place from tomorrow (Saturday). So- greater autonomy or independence- how will people vote? Are we about to see the formation of the world's newest country? And with a greater degree of autonomy from Papua New Guinea looking likely, how will this impact on geopolitical tensions in the region?

TV writer and producer Jenji Kohan is best known as the creator of the hit series Orange Is The New Black. Kim Hill caught up with her while she was in NZ to speak at a screen conference.