Author Interview

UK heart surgeon Samer Nashef is a world-leading expert on risk and quality in surgical care. He's authored two memoirs about life inside the operating theatre: The Naked Surgeon and most recently The… Audio

A professor of management at San Francisco State University, Ronald Purser is a leading figure in the backlash against the mindfulness movement. He says that while mindfulness is promoted as an… Audio

For 30 years political strategist Rick Wilson helped Republican candidates get elected in America. Now he is doing everything he can to make sure the top Republican gets kicked out of office in 2020… Audio

When writer Long Litt Woon's husband, Eiolf died unexpectedly at the age of 54, she was adrift with grief. And so, she signed up for a course on mushrooming, something she and Eiolf had planned to do… Audio

If you want to lose weight, dieting is not helping most people - fat, appetite and metabolism conspire to defeat our best laid plans, a bariatric surgeon told Jesse Mulligan. Audio

To understand the architecture of misogyny, what defines what is and isn't appropriate behavior for women, look no further than the most famous house in the world, the House of Windsor.  Audio

New Zealand-made film JoJo Rabbit, is up for 6 Oscars including best picture. Supermodel turned author, Christine Leunens wrote Caging Skies, the novel from which the movie's screenplay was adapted… Video, Audio

Self-improvement guru Dale Carnegie always said listening was key to getting ahead in life. Journalist Kate Murphy takes a closer look at the art of listening in her new book, You're Not Listening:… Audio

William Gibson has imagined the near future more convincingly than anyone else for four decades now. His latest sci-fi thriller, Agency, is a book with both feet placed firmly in the future that will… Audio

Fantasy writer H.G (Hannah) Parry's novel The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep imagines what might happen if well-known literary characters broke free from the books they inhabit and invaded everyday… Audio

Kim Hill meets the hard-working, humble and often hilarious stars of the Kiwi reality TV show The Casketeers. The couple have just realised the book Life as a Casketeer: What the Business of Death Can… Video, Audio

Jane Austen bestowed Mary Bennet with the fate of being the unremarkable middle sister in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. But a new novel by Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister, fleshes her out… Audio

The only parenting advice parents will ever need goes like this: you don't have to be perfect, you just have to be present. Audio

The Washington Post's White House Bureau Chief Philip Rucker talks to Kathryn about A Very Stable Genius - the book he and National Investigative Reporter Carol Leonnig have just published about… Audio

A reflection on the legacy of former Labour Prime Minister, trade representative and diplomat, Mike Moore, who died at the weekend aged 71. Audio

Writer Scarlett Thomas has referenced some of her own miserable memories of being at boarding school in her latest and 10th novel Oligarchy. Audio

Australian journalist Trent Dalton's best-selling 2018 novel Boy Swallows Universe is based on his own tough childhood in seedy '80s Brisbane. He talks to Kim Hill about his love of diving deep… Audio

American author and father Kevin Wilson revisits his obsession with spontaneous human combustion in his new novel Nothing to See Here. Here former college room-mate Madison asks Lillian to be a… Audio

Described as one of America's finest writers, award-winning and best-selling author Elizabeth Strout speaks with Kathryn Ryan about one of the finest female characters to come out of American fiction… Audio

As humans, we lean into the negative. It's just how our brains work. Our natural negative bias explains so much; high divorce rates, stagnating economies, and what makes the news and drives politics.