Mike Anstis might just take the cake as the Calling Home candidate with the most obscure vocation we've detailed this year. He's a cloud seed pilot in the United Arab Emirates and his role sees him intentionally seek out turbulence and cumuliform clouds so he can 'seed' them with chemical flares. He's Calling Home from Al Ain.

New Zealanders share brief thoughts on important topics to them. Here's the former CEO of World vision, Chris Clarke on a high number of prominent Kiwis who sadly left us in 2019.

Dr. Stanton Glantz has been tracking e-cigarette users for the last three years as part of the first study on the long-term effects of vaping, and the results are troubling, with vapers about 30% more likely to have developed a chronic lung disease like asthma or emphysema. And the news is worse still for 'dual users' who both smoke and use e-cigrarettes.If you're a smoker who is also using e-cigarettes, you more than triple your odds of developing lung disease.

3MM - succinct opinions from New Zealanders on a Sunday morning. With the work year ending, John Boyd has some thoughts on how our work weeks should be in the years ahead. John is a Wellington management consultant working in leadership development.

Dr. Hannes Gissurarson is a professor of political science at the University of Iceland, and he argues there is a systemic reason for the huge growth of smaller countries that are generally both richer and happier than their larger counterparts.

In 1914 there were only 13 properly functioning democracies in the world, and today there are 89. Dr. Hannes Gissurarson is a professor of political science at the University of Iceland, and he argues there is a systemic reason for the huge growth of smaller countries that are generally both richer and happier than their larger counterparts.

Jimmy Dennis was wrongfully convicted for a crime he didn't commit after a 17-year-old girl was murdered in 1991. He spent 25 years on death row, but eventually his conviction was overturned. And now he's relaunching his music career.

A new study set out to find whether people responded differently to the presence or absence of political hashtags in news stories in major publications. Study co-author Eugenia Ha Rim Rho is with us to share the study's findings.

Veteran sports commentator Keith Quinn joins the show to offer his thoughts on the once-in-a-lifetime New Zealand athlete Sir Peter Snell, who died yesterday at his home in Dallas, Texas at the age of 80.

Chris Eden was diagnosed with incurable lymphatic cancer in 2005. Then he came up with a simple(ish) plan: ride a motorcycle solo across, round or through every continent in the world. So far he's chalked up 180,000 kilometres.