It's been a big week for New Zealand TV director Jessica Hobbs following her breakthrough Emmy win for her work on The Crown. The London-based filmmaker was born into the industry, having joined her mum, director Aileen O'Sullivan, on set for a role in local mini-series The Governor as a child. After becoming an assistant director on films like Dame Jane Campion's An Angel at My Table, Hobbs went on to Australia, where she directed shows like Heartbreak High and The Slap, which got her invited to the UK to work on Broadchurch. The rest, as they say, is history. Jessica's Calling Home this morning.

New York Times bestselling author Jessica Lahey is a mother, a teacher in a drug and alcohol centre for adolescents, and a recovering alcoholic with a strong family history of addiction. Jessica wanted to develop a better understanding of why she had become an alcoholic and yet her sister could drink without having a problem. And she wanted to know what she could do to ensure her own children didn't follow in her own footsteps. Her latest book, The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Kids in a Culture of Dependence, is part memoir, part parent manual -- offering parents evidence-based advice for keeping children away from addiction.

In her former life, Martinborough-based author Rosy Fenwicke was a doctor who wrote books on the side. She's been a fulltime writer for a year now and won't be going back anytime soon. Her latest book, Cold Wallet: Locked. Loaded. Gone., tells the story of Jess, a lonely young woman who marries the man of her dreams, Andrew, only to have him die tragically on their honeymoon at a resort in Fiji. And that's where things start getting interesting. Andrew, a cyber genius, leaves his former business partner, Henry, out of his will and leaves Jess his cryptocurrency exchange. However, when the passwords to his cold wallets holding millions in cryptocurrency can't be found, Jess falls under suspicion. Rosy joins the show to discuss Cold Wallet and how her life has changed since she became a fulltime writer.

Magic, luck, schools, Twitter, creativity, social skills, illusions, magician, David Copperfield, Houdini, chance, casino, gambling, addiction, lottery, anxiety, Internet, social media, Professor Richard Wiseman, intuition, emotion, confirmation bias, weather

University of Otago epidemiologist and regular Sunday Morning guest Professor Michael Baker returns to the show to answer your Covid-19 questions and ours.

Covid complications confuse the media; Collins' snubs startles media - but it cuts both ways; confused claims of Covid-compromised cancer care; Collins' snubs startles media - but it cuts both ways.

Among other topics this morning, our Weekend panellists will be discussing the first morning of daylight saving, vaccine resistance and tolerance of the unvaccinated, controversy over James Shaw's overseas travel and ageism on social media.

Too much time on your hands may be almost as bad as too little, psychologists are discovering.

The results were overwhelming when Research New Zealand asked Kiwis about what we should be doing to manage Covid-19, with nearly three-quarters of people (70%) saying they support lockdowns to eliminate Covid-19. For many people, however, that willingness only extends to when the vaccination target has been reached. Half the respondents of Research NZ's latest survey said they supported the idea of restaurants and bars only serving vaccinated people, while only 7% want to return to life as it was before Covid-19, with no rules around mask wearing, testing and quarantine. Research NZ Managing Director Emanuel Kalafatelis is with us to discuss.

Wellington actor Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie has been described as "dazzlingly talented" in Vogue, and has worked alongside such movie stars as Benedict Cumberpatch, Scarlett Johansson and Kirsten Dunst, to name a few. She was predicted to dominate the screen in 2021, and with four major movies out this year -- including Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho, which has just premiered at the Venice Film Festival -- those predictions have been on the mark. Indeed, IndieWire film critic Nicholas Barber wrote that Harcourt Mckenzie's performance as Eloise in Last Night in Soho was "so delightful and versatile that there doesn't appear to be anything that she can't do". Thomasin joins the show from the capital to discuss her latest movie projects, life and work in lockdown and what she would like to be if she wasn't an actor.