Author Interview

Judy Melinek is a forensic pathologist at Wellington Hospital. Her training in forensics at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner is the subject of the memoir Working Stiff: Two Years… Audio

George Saunders won the Booker Prize for his 2017 novel Lincoln in the Bardo. For the last 20 years, he has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his students at Syracuse University. He… Audio

Mark Carney is the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Finance Adviser for COP26. He was Governor of the Bank of England until last year, and prior to… Audio

American author Harlan Coben is a #1 New York Times best-selling author. His 33 mystery and thriller novels, including Tell No One, Missing You and the 11-book Myron Bolitar series, have been… Audio

In 1970 the US Antarctic Research Programme needed a woman to assist a US scientist scheduled to work on the ice cap. They called on the NZ Alpine Club for suggestions. Julia Millen was working at the… Audio

Melissa Harrison is a novelist and nature writer whose podcast documenting the natural world and changing seasons during lockdown was a runaway success. Each week from April to October last year, she… Audio

Author and regular book reviewer, Pip Adam, is in for this week's How to Write feature, talking about how to write a love scene! Audio

Award-winning UK chef Anna Jones has a new book of one-pot dishes - One: Pot, Pan, Planet has simple recipes for less waste and amazing taste. Audio

What could the internet look like in the future, and how closely might it resemble what users in China experience?Kathryn speaks to James Griffiths, a Hong Kong-based journalist who has taken an… Audio

Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar has discovered that our friendships are governed by secret rules. He joins the show to discuss friendship and his new book, Friends: Understanding the Power of… Audio

From a childhood fascination with cooking, to possum trapping and living off the land as a hunter and forager, Annabel Langbein has always been obsessed with food. A 2020 Word Christchurch highlight.

A novel about bluffing, evasion and the decline of humanities in universities - you can't say Christchurch writer Patrick Evans is scared to tackle the big subjects! Bluffworld is set in a world… Audio

Ngai Tahu author Nic Low knows the Southern Alps intimately. He's been on 15 treks through the mountains, following historic routes. Now Nic's working on a book about that history called Uprising. But… Audio, Gallery

In 2017 Julie Zarifeh lost her husband Paul to cancer. Then just 16 days later her son, Sam, died on a rafting trip. Grief on the Run is her story of using active grieving to help move on with life… Audio

Dr. Susan Liautaud advises clients globally - including world leaders,huge corporates, NGOs and government institutions on complex ethics matters. She is the founder and managing director of Susan… Audio

The America's Cup is on knife-edge with Team New Zealand potentially just one race away from victory over challengers Luna Rossa. Team New Zealand won yesterday's only race against Luna Rossa; the… Audio

Choices have consequences. And behind so many headlines is a story about the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time says writer Steve Braunias. He looks at a dozen true crime stories and… Audio

Alex Braae knows how to write a digital newsletter people actually read. The Bulletin - a current events missive he writes for The Spinoff - lands in close to 40,000 inboxes every day. Audio

Author Mark Stevenson watched his daughter wrestle with anxiety from the tender age of three. He says what his daughter went through, and his own experience of feeling helpless as a parent, was the… Audio

Suzi McAlpine was a senior executive, mother of three, her husband busy with his first CEO role, when she first realised she was experiencing burnout. It's a phenomenon on the rise: a 2019 Gallup… Audio