RNZ producer, Ayana Piper-Healion, has been reading all the headlines - so you don’t have to.

Lucy Prebble, the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Emmy award-winning writer behind HBO's drama Succession, talks about her play, The Effect.

We talk to an editor keeping an eye on where public money for public services ends up and the government’s new political action plan gets the media’s attention.

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen joins us once again as our Sunday Morning question master.

Nearly 1000 British sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted or convicted of theft, false accounting and fraud, due to a faulty computer system. The story of the scandal is told in the TV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. Alan Bates joins Jim.

Habituation is a neurological process which helps us to adapt to new environments keeping ready to reap any benefits or negate any hazards. Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London and the co-author of Look Again: The power of noticing what was always there. She believes there are benefits to seeing the things we are used to in a fresh light

With steep mountains, wild rivers, and swift weather changes, Aotearoa is a place where people can easily get lost. Although Kiwis are fortunate to have NZ Search and Rescue, these skilled and brave volunteers can't always perform miracles. To better predict what people tend to do when lost on land – and improve chances of a successful rescue – search-and-rescue scientist  Dr Robert J Koester has studied thousands of cases. He talks to Jim Mora about his life's work.

International best-selling author Stacy Gregg has just released two new books for children and pre-teens. 'The Easter Bunny Hunt' is inspired by the adventures of her own cat and dog. And for pre-teens 'Nine Girls' is based on Gregg's own upbringing in Ngaruawahia, set in the political tumult of the 1980's. Stacy chats with Jim about the inspiration behind her new works and what she has planned for her Easter Sunday.

While there's no denying our lives have become better in many ways thanks to the internet and smartphones - genuine human interaction has dropped drastically, leaving society at large in an epidemic of loneliness. Dystopian sci-fi classic 'The Matrix' came out 25 years ago, yet Dan Weijers argues its themes are more relevant now than ever before. Dan Weijers is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Waikato.

Gabrielle review lessons for media; Dolphin drama fires up media.