The Third season of the award-winning podcast Conversations with my Immigrant Parents is out. Co-creator Julie Zhu joins us to talk about the series.

The 11th International Urban Sketchers Symposium is taking place in Auckland next week. We're joined by keen sketcher and one of the Symposium organisers, Eric Ngan.

After being overwhelmed with queries earlier in the week, Tony Murrell joins us again to take your autumn gardening questions.

Auckander Jono Rankine is calling home from Hong Kong

Considered one of the greatest conductors in the world, Sir Donald Runnicles makes his New Zealand debut this month. He talks to us about his life and career as well as what he's looking forward to in New Zealand.

A group of New Zealand scientists working at the cutting-edge of electrical engineering hope to make inroads into the problem of getting electric planes into the air. One of those scientists is Professor Rod Badcock from Paihau-Robinson Research Institute He joins us to talk about his area of expertise - superconducting engineering - and whether New Zealand could be at the forefront of electric aviation.

Auckland flood response review finds arms-length Council didn't use media effectively; media droning on about flying pizza - again; a fake news backflip.

If you think men today are too feminine, kids today are spoiled, and we need to get back to teaching the basics, Paul Fairie's says we've seen it all before.

Barbara Else has written award-winning fiction for decades, but didnt think her life story had enough "drama" to make an interesting memoir. But after starting to write down memories of the "little incidents" that seemed to deeply affect her life, Else realised her own experiences were as interesting as anything she could make up. The result is Laughing at the Dark.

On Monday, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission in more than 50 years. The space agency hopes to establish the first long-term presence on the moon and, using knowledge gleaned from those efforts, send the first humans to Mars. Joining us to discuss the new is the chair of Women in Space Aotearoa, Space sector consultant and Aerospace Engineer, Kate Breach.