Smart, in-depth and relentlessly curious, host Kathryn Ryan dives into the stories shaping New Zealand and its people. Interviews and expert analysis from around the world and at home. It’s where big ideas are unpacked and everyday life explored.
Latest episodes
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10 min
Sports commentator Sam Ackerman
Christchurch is the centre of the NZ sporting universe this week.
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14 min
Friday funnies
Justine Smith and Donna Brookbanks with a lighter take on some recent stories.
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9 min
Around the motu: Kaitlyn Morrell
Kaitlyn has the latest on what is happening with the Cathedral Cove track, a dispute over the proposed felling of a protected tree, the new freight and logistics hub opened at the…
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6 min
Book review: Chris Tse reviews poetry collections
Chris Tse reviews two poetry collections: Salt Quilt by Airini Beautrais (Te Herenga Waka University Press), and I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken (Penguin Random House).
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5 min
Labour candidate Kerrin Leoni resigns over gang campaigning
Kerrin Leoni, has resigned as a Labour candidate for Tamaki Makaurau. This comes after a video merged showing her campaigning with gang members. RNZ political editor Jo Moir.
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25 min
Sociologist Maryam Aslany on why the world depends on peasants
Sociologist Maryam Aslany says there are still roughly two billion people out there living as peasants in her new book Peasants: Makers of the Modern World she argues that these sm…
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12 min
Asia correspondent Rachel Clayton
The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in India, while Japan carries out a first mission to Mars' moons to collect samples.
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13 min
Inside the world of international competitive e-gaming
Gaming is set to take centre stage this Labour Weekend with an international e-sports test match between New Zealand and India. E Blacks team leader Jonathan Jansen and player Sam…
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8 min
Drew James on reviving the wonder of WOMAD's world music
WOMAD is returning to Taranaki in next March, following a year off this year amid rising costs, Drew James is the newly-appointed executive director.
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15 min
US psychotherapist on how she gets people to leave cults
US psychotherapist Rachel Bernstein has spent more than 30 years helping people recover from cults and is visiting New Zealand for the first time to speak at this weekend's DeCult…
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12 min
Screentime: Tenzing, British and Irish Film Festival
Film and TV reviewer James Croot looks at new biographical film Tenzing, which was filmed in New Zealand. He also shares his picks of the British and Irish Film Festival, including…
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17 min
Parenting: Supporting kids through frustration
How we can support kids through frustration, without rushing to rescue them from it?
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15 min
Tech: Hacking into supermarket fridges? Tony Grasso explains
Cybersecurity expert Tony Grasso looks at the major attack against nearly 700 French supermarkets, where hackers were able to access commercial fridges and freezers and drive up te…
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7 min
Inflation eases but cost-of-living warnings remain
Statistics New Zealand says annual inflation has eased to 3.7 percent in the September quarter. That's down from an annual rate of 4.1 percent in the previous quarter and is slight…
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10 min
Around the motu: Kelly Makiha in Rotorua
Kelly has more on a bottle store worker injured in what police say was the start of a crime spree, the young Rotorua women who has gone from from opera singing to the Black Fern's…
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11 min
Pacific: Out-of-season storms, wildfires in Papua New Guinea
RNZ's Pacific correspondent Christina Persico looks at the storms that have already hit the Pacific outside of the normal cyclone season, including Cyclone Wati which passed the Co…
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23 min
Testing a world of AI agents
From a startup staffed by AI agents to sending his digital clone to online therapy, US journalist and author Evan Ratliff loves testing the boundaries of new technologies.
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11 min
UK: Controversial gasfield approved, debt hits £3tn
UK correspondent Natasha Clare looks at why it was given the greenlight and the reaction to it. The UK government's debt has hit £3tn for the first time, as John Healey gets ready…
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11 min
Burger Burger's comeback - backed by suppliers
Less than three months after entering liquidation, gourmet burger chain Burger Burger has started re-opening.
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11 min
Survey finds few young people are considering career as carers
Almost two-thirds of young people thought home care was meaningful work, however few associate it with fair pay or a clear career pathway.