Political commentator Richard Harman discusses what's in store at the opening of Parliament this week. What will actually be delivered in the Prime Minister's "year of delivery"?

Wash Westmoreland's latest movie Colette has been 17 years in the making. He talks about women’s rights pioneer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, the fight to empower herself and gain autonomy over her work.

The author of the Rosie series Graeme Simsion talks about his mid-life career change which led to him becoming a best-selling writer.

Student flats in Dunedin have a number of colourful and creative names, some of which are unfit to print. Sarah Gallagher has catalogued 18 years of research into these flats’ rich histories and joined Jim Mora to discuss her new book Scarfie Flats of Dunedin.

The globotics upheaval – a combination of globalisation and robotics – is coming, and it's taking jobs with it. Dr Richard Baldwin has written a book looking at the future of work and warns of a potentially major displacement for the workforce, but also finds reasons for optimism.

Feeling a bit lost at work? Jim talks to Karen Becker of the Queensland University of Technology about ambiguity in the workplace.

Commentators from all over New Zealand get the chance to have a say on what's been bothering them throughout the week. Dunedin journalist and broadcaster Ian Telfer has a plan for supermarket plastics.

Political party possibility hooks the media; money for media mockery; geeks' gathering goes under the radar; hyping the heatwave.

Scotland's Orkney Islands generate more electricity than they need via a host of wind turbines. Looking at the future of energy with Laura Watts the author of Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga.

Insight - Eric Frykberg explores whether the regions can still thrive without irrigation certainty