On the show today, Dear Science discusses the deadliest scientist, why you really did not want to be alive in year 536 and wombats’ cube poos.

For our weekly chat with the New Zealand First party, Lillian talks to Deputy Leader Fletcher Tabuteau.

Harry speaks with Pania Newton, lead protester from Save Our Unique Landscape about the protests at Fletcher Building’s AGM, regarding plans to build 480 homes at Ihumatao, the ancestral Maori archeological site in Mangere.

And Lisa looks into the use of algorithms by government agencies to identify patterns and at risk population and discuss the ethical issues of its use with Dr Emily Keddell, a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Otago University.