'The Dream' explores the shady, complex world of pyramid schemes and multi-level marketing, ways of selling stuff which also encourage you to recruit new people as participants. So if you can get your friends or family members to join up, you can earn a commission on whatever they sell. Host Jane Marie has a personal interest in this topic. Growing up in rural Michigan, she knows many people who joined these schemes (and we meet some of them later in the series).

Fi Glover and Jane Garvey are BBC presenters who apparently met up hosting an event together a few years ago: they got on well and made people laugh, so 'Fortunately...with Fi and Jane' was born. Now nearly 70 episodes on, the weekly show is full of unscripted chat, and longer interviews with guests who come mainly from the world of broadcasting and entertainment. We play some of an episode of 'Fortunately...with Fi and Jane' (produced by Vivien Jones for BBC Radio 4) where they speak to the Scottish tennis coach Judy Murray, who is also the mother of tennis playing brothers Jamie and Andy Murray.

'Black Sheep' is back for a new season, with host William Ray telling more stories about colourful and controversial characters from New Zealand history. We play part of the first episode of a two-part story called 'Headhunter: the story of Horatio Robley', produced and presented for RNZ by William Ray.

The New York Times' daily news show 'The Daily' has proved a major hit: it's currently sitting at number 2 in the US podcast charts, with 5 million monthly listeners, and annual advertising revenues reported to be worth more than $US10 million. And other media organisations are trying to emulate its success. Just this week The Guardian, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and NZME., the publisher of The New Zealand Herald, have all unveiled their own daily news podcasts. Each episode of The Daily comes in at a digestible 20-odd minutes and it's ready to listen to early each weekday in the US, in time for the morning commute. Host Michael Barbaro interviews some of the Times' best journalists about the big news stories of the day, with a team of producers editing their chats, and embellishing them with music and audio clips. We play some of a story about climate change with journalist Nathaniel Rich talking about his article on a missed opportunity to tackle global warming: the US refusal to enter into an international treaty to control carbon dioxide emissions nearly 30 years ago. We also speak to Clare Toeniskoetter who is one of 10 producers working on 'The Daily' about how the show began, and how it comes together each day.

'The Daily' delivers the news to your ears. 'Black Sheep' portrays controversial characters from New Zealand history. 'Fortunately...with Fi and Jane' is an interview show with lots of laughs. And 'The Dream' explores multi-level marketing, from 'the plane game' to pyramid schemes.

The Australian improv duo The Bear Pack take one random word and use it as the centrepiece for a whole unscripted story. Steen Raskopoulos and Carlo Ritchie of The Bear Pack bring us some chilli-related chat.

'Dirt Church Radio' is a locally produced show with a focus on trail running- basically running done in New Zealand's great outdoors. We play some of Episode 7 featuring the American ultramarathon legend Dean Karnazes, and speak to Matt Rayment and journalist Eugene Bingham, the hosts and creators of Dirt Church Radio.

'Household Name' takes some of the biggest names in business- global giants like Starbucks and Coca Cola- and uncovers surprising stories from their past. So long ago, way back before he became US President, Donald Trump played a crucial role in selling us more pizza! Donald and Ivana's Affair (with Pizza Hut) is Episode 2 of Household Name from Business Insider and Stitcher presented by Dan Bobkoff.

From zebra crossings to prison uniforms, from Where's Wally? to the Breton shirt, stripes have always had a knack for grabbing our attention. In a BBC documentary called 'Out of Line', graphic designer Teresa Monachino shares her love of the horizontal line (produced by Mair Bosworth for BBC Radio 4).

Stripy love letter: Out Of Line. Household Name: how the US President made us eat more pizza. Dirt Church Radio: trail running nirvana, and improvised storytelling with The Bear Pack.