Dr. Ashley Mears is a former fashion model turned academic sociologist. Her new book Very Important People looks at how clubs and restaurants pay promoters to recruit beautiful young women to their venues to get men to spend big.

Friends John Middleton, Zac Roberts and Kyle Sutcliffe are playing every open mini golf course in the entire country, in a bid to raise money for the Mental Health Foundation. 'Par four' kicked off their nationwide tour in Auckland yesterday.

This week Mediawatch looks at how the media lifted the lid on startling failures in Covid-19 quarantine.Also: new developments in a major review of Maori media - and claims its critics have misunderstood it.

China is never out of the news, and in the past week the stories there have been big ones. Nathan van der Klippe is joining us, our China correspondent, and the Asia correspondent for the Globe & Mail, based in Beijing.

New Zealand's new Covid-19 cases and the troubles at our borders, the police shooting in West Auckland, health reforms and taxes are on the agenda for our Sunday Morning panellists Linda Clark and Richard Harman.

Dr. Graham Hill is a criminologist and child protection expert who was sent to Portugal only days after British toddler Madeleine McCann went missing. He says the entire investigation was fundamentally flawed from the onset.

Caroline Barron embarked on a search for her father's birth family in her new book, Ripiro Beach. She wanted to find out more about where she came from and who she is. But some of what she discovered was harrowing, to say the least.

Tom Sainsbury is adding yet another string to his considerable bow by taking on an ambassadorial role during Men's Health Week, which kicks off tomorrow. He joins the show to discuss men's health and the art of unscripted comedy.

It's been 50 years since Dunedin Craig Scott was on top of the New Zealand music charts and just about as famous as you can be in this country. His smash hit, Star Crossed Lovers spent four weeks at No 1 in June 1970.

Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by Atlanta police on Friday evening during an incident in a Wendy’s drive-thru.. Greg Bluestein is the political reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He's with us from Atlanta for a live update.