One woman who knows all about banned books, and the attention they inadvertently draw, is Dr Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare studies at Oxford University. She's the author of Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers.

Set on a single day in 2016, Cliff Taylor's novel, The Spanish Garden tells a story of memory and loss, the fatal history shared between two families, Pakeha and Maori, and a man's enduring obsession with love.

Was the artist Andy Warhol the first influencer of our age? The curator of 'Andy Warhol & Photography: A Social Media', a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, reckons he would be all over social media if he were alive today.

Falepipi He Mafola Niuean Handcraft Group (Falepipi He Mafola) will celebrate their 30 years with an exhibition at Ma¯ngere Arts Centre - Nga Tohu O Uenuku over eight weeks. Susana Lei'ataua took some time this week to visit the exhibition and learn about the work of the group with one of their founding members, Molly Pihigia.

Calling Home this week is ex-Dunedin and Lyttleton fiddler and bootmaker Flora Knight who now calls Guthrie, Oklahoma home.

Safe or sorry? Some still shrugging off storm warnings; an offshore outfit rating reliability of our news - and trying to train the AI chatbots; angst over not-so-Super Rugby on screen.

As the nation watched the King's coronation last weekend, one personality shone out from our screens - Suzanne Paul, New Zealand's infomercial queen.

As the Eurovision song contest reaches its auto-tuned crescendo in Liverpool, comedian Laura Daniel cast a discerning pop-diva eye over the proceedings and looks ahead to her and her husband Joseph Moore's show at Auckland's Q Theatre Til Death Do Us Hearts as part of the NZ International Comedy Festival.

Mother and daughter, Annabel & Rose Langbein are two of our most-loved cooks and celebrated food writers. We reunite mother and daughter for Mother's Day and they share their perfect Mother's Day recipe for Pear, Nutmeg and Walnut Cake.

Pipiwharauroa Campbell , lead singer of the popular Aotearoa group Corrella joins us to talk about their new Te Reo Maori waiata 'Ko Au'.