Linda Clark and Richard Harman offer their thoughts on the past week's news, discussing the revelations around Michelle Boag and the Nats, the closure of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, and the future of the NZ job market.

Eating Well For Less co-host Ganesh Raj has been setting up a new YouTube channel called The Humble Yum Yum. The channel borrows from the ethos of EWFL, and shares ideas for global food that doesn't cost the world.

The tourism downturn caused by Covid-19 has turned the ancient Thai city of Lopburi into a scene of raging warfare between roving gangs of thousands of monkeys. Photojournalist Mladen Antonov travelled there on assignment recently.

Right through the New Zealand lockdown and then the descending levels, Research NZ has taken the pulse of the public on its concerns, opinions and predictions. Emanuel Kalafatelis joins the show with the latest survey results.

Vitamin D has a limited lifespan in the body, so do we need a top up in winter? And if so, just how much do we need? Dr Pamela von Hurst joins the show to discuss how to get your daily dose.

It's July 4 in the US and while the beaches are closed in Florida due to a surge in Covid-19 cases, the Pentagon has given the green light to the involvement of 1,700 service members in the federal government's July 4 celebrations. American correspondent Karen Kasler joins the show with all the latest.

Tony Burrows, otherwise known as 'the man of 1000 voices', sang on around 100 top 20 hits during the 60s and 70s. But it was his novelty hit 'Gimme Dat Ding' with The Pipkins that made its way to the top of the NZ charts back in 1970.

Dr. David Abulafia's new book The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans is global history of humankind told through our relationship with the world's oceans. He joins the show to discuss his incredible 1075 page tome.

New research out of Germany suggests those who sleep next to one another have increased REM sleep and less disrupted sleep than couples who slept individually. Sleep expert Dr Wendy Troxel joins the show to offer her thoughts.

Breaking for the border; forcing the issue of race at the Herald; slippery slope of safety.