The Leader of the House explains how the debate on the Prime Minister’s statement works.

Jim Mora reads listener feedback.

Past Caring? Women, Work & Emotion. It's a new book from three southern women at Otago University - History Professor Barbara Brookes who specialises in gender relations, and has written on that and the history of health and disease. She wrote A History of New Zealand Women which was a NZ Book Awards winner. Dr Jane McCabe is a lecturer in history, and Angela Wanhalla is the third author. Barbara Brookes and Jane McCabe talk about where women in New Zealand are at today.

Simone Anderson is one of New Zealand's most successful influencers and she says her job wouldn't be possible without the help of her own Instagram husband who's actually her fiance Trent Forsyth. They're both with us in their busy influencing lives as it were to talk about their respective roles in Simone's growing business.

Instagram celebrities routinely collect thousands of dollars for sponsored posts. But behind every envy-inducing photograph is someone making sure they are being captured at the most flattering angle and in the perfect pose. These aiders and abetters are colloquially known as Instagram husbands. Atlantic technology writer Taylor Lorenz talks about the rise of the Instagram husband or the insta boyfriend.

Stanford and NYU researchers have researched the unthinkable: leaving Facebook. Imagine no more friend requests, no more 'like' button, no more chiming in on the conversations of the day. Two-point-three billion people are on the platform. As part of the study 2300 were persuaded to quit for a month. This study's called "The Welfare Effects of Social Media" and one of its authors Sarah Eichmeyer joins us.

Sam Jones has been the man on the other size of the camera from the stars, but you wouldn't call him a paparazzo, he's a big-name photographer. He's also the presenter and interviewer of the show Off Camera as he chats with famous people.

Award winning filmmaker and author Peter Wells died last evening aged 69 after being diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. He joined Jim Mora earlier this month to discuss his life and career as a gay man in Aotearoa.

A new book by three professors tells us your family won't become The Brady Bunch by sitting around the dinner table. Anthropologists and sociologists at three U.S. universities, Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton, and Sinikka Elliott have written Pressure Cooker: The full title is Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It.

Actor, director and commentator Jackie Nairn has chosen a topic we're going to talk more about before 10 o'clock. Paying it forward at supermarkets.