Our usual quizmaster Jack Waley-Cohen is taking a break this week - so former champion of TVNZ's Mastermind programme and former Mayor of Whanganui, Hamish McDouall, has kindly stepped in.

Ruth Shaw joins us for a captivating conversation about her latest memoir, Three Wee Bookshops at the End of the World.

Cora Fox discusses how Shakespeare's plays depict happiness, and whether that view is still relevant today.

A recent study found all living things, including humans, emit a ghostly glow that vanishes as soon as we die.

Do we need to be worried about arsenic in rice? And bananas; how many is too many?

German life coach Karin Kuschik explains why sometimes speaking bluntly could make us all happier.

Thomas Moynihan discusses the possibility that we're unintentionally building an artificial world brain.

Kiwi driver Liam Lawson has finally got into the Top 10 in the qualifying sessions ahead of the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix.

Our vagus nerves help us rest, digest and restore, but is there really a way to reset them to feel better?

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning quiz.