Author Interview

Paul Fronczak spent most of his life thinking he knew who is was. A boy from Chicago, albeit with a good backstory. He thought he was the child pictured in faded news clippings from 1964, stolen at a… Audio

Kiwi mother Emma Gilkison has written a memoir about the devastating discovery at a routine twelve week scan that her unborn baby had a fatal condition. His heart was growing outside his body due to… Audio

The toddler years are a labour-intensive phase of parenting – as your child learns about food, they're feeling a lot, pushing back a lot and don't have a lot of impulse control, says Dr Julie Boshale… Audio

To keep your relationship on track, celebrate your partner's successes – big and small – as much as possible, says relationship researcher Arthur Aron. He's the psychology professor who designed… Audio

Christchurch writer and illustrator, Gavin Bishop won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at this year's Children's Book Awards for his beautiful book 'Aotearoa, The New Zealand Story'. It's arguably… Audio, Gallery

GP and award-winning writer, Gavin Francis explores the incredible transformation humans undergo through the course of a lifetime. His latest book Shapeshifters: On Medicine and Human Change considers… Audio

When stand up comedian Dave Chawner went days without eating, or exercised manically in his bedroom as a teenager, it wasn't about how he looked. Chawner says for him anorexia was about taking… Audio

A young Māori traveller becoming a living exhibit in 1840s London is at the heart of The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke - a new novel by Kapiti writer Tina Makereti. Tina Makereti tells Lynn Freeman… Audio

Children who spend the bulk of their school day in front of a computer will too often end up physically unfit, depressed and low on social skills, political scientist and author Nicholas Tampio says… Audio

Author, inventor, entrepreneur, and self-described "eternal optimist", Texas-based Byron Reese started his first business while an undergraduate. He later founded and sold two companies: Hot Data… Audio

Parents need to focus less on enforcing rules and more on developing their kids' independence if they want to help them handle real-world pressures, says family coach and author Yvonne Godfrey.  Audio

Freelance photojournalist, writer and filmmaker, Lalage Snow has worked in some of the most war torn and damaged places on earth. Whilst working in Afghanistan she came across amazing people putting… Audio, Gallery

A little aimlessness and solitude aren't only good for the soul, they're essential for wellbeing and creativity, says Alan Lightman, the author of In Praise of Wasting Time. Audio

Ingrid Coles shares her remarkable life story with Lynn Freeman. Born in 1942 in Java, then the Dutch East Indies, her family was imprisoned in a series of brutal concentration camps by the Japanese… Audio

The 70's, 80's and 90's are sometimes called the "golden age" of serial killers - and criminal justice expert Peter Vronksy reckon conditions are perfect for another to begin in the next decade or so

The so-called 'Authorship Question', the controversy over whether Shakespeare wrote the works in his name remains a remarkably popular dispute, and is closely bound up with one of the world's other… Audio

200 years ago, the young Ngare Raumati chief Tuai left the Bay of Islands for an epic trip around the UK and Europe. Professor Alison Jones from Auckland University joins us to talk a bit more about… Audio

New Zealand born plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe was ground-breaking in his field. McIndoe was civilian consultant in plastic surgery to the RAF and his improvement on treatments to casualties… Audio, Gallery