Author Interview

What was life really like for Kiwi soldiers serving during World War II, and what secrets might they have harboured? New Zealand author Tom Remiger has drawn on his extensive research from wartime… Audio

Best-selling American author and essayist Eula Biss talks to Kathryn Ryan about her new book Having and Being Had, which looks at the psychological effects of consumerism, and what it means about who… Audio

The founder of the I Quit Sugar has a new book that resulted from her experiences with anxiety and OCD.  Audio

Co-housing advocate Robin Allison has envisioned and built an alternative way of living. Individuals and families live in a kind of curated community, enjoying the perks that come with pooling… Audio, Gallery

Miriam Lancewood's first book, Woman in the Wilderness, told her story of living for seven years in the NZ bush with her husband. Her gripping sequel to the international bestseller, Wild at Heart… Audio

Australian author and screenwriter Craig Silvey's second novel Jasper Jones, released in 2009 sold more than 600,000 copies and was adapted for screen and stage. 11 years on he's just released a new… Audio

Changing minds is not an art, it's science. Chemistry to be exact says Professor Jonah Berger from the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pensylvannia. He talks to Jesse about… Audio, Gallery

In a world where robots are replacing people and you can rent a friend, economist and author Noreena Hertz talks to Kathryn Ryan about loneliness. She has been named as "one of the world's leading… Audio

Journalist and anthropologist Sarah Kendzior talks to Jesse about the Trump type presidency and the fragility of American democracy in her new book Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump… Audio

Sydney based writer and film-maker Miro Bilborough has written a memoir about her time as a teenager living in a tiny hippie community in the outer reaches of the Marlborough Sounds in the 1970s. Audio

Michael Kodas, author of 'Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame', talks to Kathryn Ryan about "megafires" as unprecedented blazes wreak havoc across the western United States. Audio

A new book shines a light on a previously untold history, that of homosexual New Zealand soldiers serving during World War II. Brent Coutts' book, called Crossing the Lines, focuses predominantly on… Audio, Gallery

How tough would it be to defend a nationalist politician whose views would see you and your family deported from the country they now call home? Australian criminal lawyer Andrew Boe arrived in… Audio

Award-winning Chinese-born British author, filmmaker and Booker Prize judge Xiaolu Guo tells Kathryn Ryan about her new book A Lover's Discourse. A 'documentary novel' about love, language, and the… Audio

Luke Harding is an award winning Guardian journalist whose latest book shines a light again on the role of the Kremlin under Vladimir Putin - from the poisonings of Segei and Julia Skripal in… Audio

Jesse speaks to Canadian economist Jeff Rubin about his new book: The Expendables: How the Middle Class Got Screwed by Globalization. Audio

Kathryn takes a plunge into the history of swimming, and why humans swim, with swimmer and swim coach Howard Means, whose new book Splash celebrates ten thousand years of swimming. From our first ever… Audio

Every day, we do something 25,000 times and mostly, we do it wrong. We breathe in and out badly says journalist James Nestor. Audio

A group of yachting women from the United States and Canada, who are stuck at a marina in WhangÄrei because of Covid-19, are putting together a cook book, suited to life on the high seas. Audio