Author Interview

Wordsmith Max Cryer knows better than most about the origin of turns of phrases. He's written and talked about the English language for many years. Cryer is a well-known broadcaster, author… Audio

Journalist and author Johann Hari says there's no silver bullet for rehabilitating an addict, but there's a wealth of evidence to suggest good old-fashioned human connection and a reason to get out of… Audio

Kirsten Warner's new novel The Sound of Breaking Glass launched last month.  Audio

In the end we all die. For 80 per cent of us, doctors sign off the cause of death and that's that.  Audio

Simon Sebag Montefiore is an award winning British historian, novelist and television host whose non-fiction works include Jerusalem: The Biography, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar and The Romanovs… Audio

Safe spaces and trigger warnings are becoming just as much a feature of University as late night cramming sessions and ramen noodles for dinner.  Audio

The shame and isolation often experienced by women who are 'childless by circumstance' is something we need to have more sensitivity to as a society, says researcher and counsellor Dr Lois Tonkin. She… Audio

New Zealand has a lot to offer tourists - beautiful scenery, adventure sports, wineries...but what about our food? Lauraine Jacobs investigates. Audio

Lifestyle writer, Catherine Foster takes a look at repurposing old materials, and how a range of homes have used upcycled bits and pieces to great effect. From rusting roofing off an old barn to… Audio, Gallery

Termites' abilities to turn timber into food and build towering mounds might help us develop biofuels, construction robots, housing design hacks and microbe technology, author Lisa Margonelli says… Audio

Former journalist Stacy Gregg has created a winning formula in her children's books - they always feature a girl and a horse. Her pony books have been massively successful, having sold more than… Audio

Lisa Kingi-Bon is the CEO of the NZ Rugby Foundation, set up in 1986 to raise funds for badly injured players. Lisa and Daniel Buckingham, a Wheel Blacks Olympic gold medallist who is now manager of… Audio, Gallery

In her new book The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing, author Merve Emre looks at why the personality test and others like it remains so… Audio

Jeanne Marie Laskas is the New York Times bestselling author of Concussion and her 2009 GQ article 'Game Brain' inspired the Golden Globe-nominated movie, Concussion, starring Will Smith and Alec… Audio

Dominic Harvey is probably best-known as the host of The Edge's morning show from 6-10am weekdays, but he's also a running addict. He joins us to talk a bit about the beauty of running, and to answer… Audio

Is there life on Mars, are we alone in the universe? Questions that preoccupy planetary scientist, Emily Lakdawalla. She is an internationally renowned science communicator who has been interpreting… Video, Audio

Military historian and eminent journalist Max Hastings' VIETNAM An Epic Tragedy 1945-1975 explores the war, and the people it affected, from a variety of perspectives. One reviewer has called it "the… Audio

Going with your gut is OK when you can't decide which color jersey to buy, but making big decisions with big consequences requires skills few of us really know and understand. Audio

Anti-1080 sentiment in New Zealand is symptomatic of a deeper problem, writer Dave Hansford says.  Audio