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The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

The new justice minister has said name suppression in our courts “is not working” because it’s granted too often to people with the means to make a strong bid for it. That puts Kiri Allan on the same… Video, Audio

Auckland neuroscientist Dr Angelo Tedoldi travelled around to find out about the role of genes in sexuality to answer why people are gay, straight or bisexual. Audio

Whether cross-party or inter-parliament collectives, MP groups are all about human connections which help MPs, and importantly us, find out what makes them tick. Audio

The hymns of 20^th century hymn writer Fred Kaan have a strong focus on peace, unity and social justice. You can hear some in this week’s programme: For the healing of the nations and O Holy Spirit. Audio

This weeks guest on the Mixtape is choreographer and dancer Neil Leremia. Audio

Biographer Clinton Heylin is arguably the world's foremost Dylan authority, having written a dozen books on the Nobel Prize for Literature winner. Which makes Heylin the perfect Saturday Morning guest… Audio

Planting time! Organic gardener Kath Irvine returns to share gardening tips and to answer your questions. Irvine counts pumpkins, squashes and beans as easy, beneficent summer crops to plant now. Audio

Earlier this week the government announced plans to introduce hate speech legislation. Such legislation has not always proven successful, as Danish lawyer Jacob Mchangama shows in his book Free… Audio

Americans go to the polls next week for their midterm elections. At stake is the balance of power within the House of Representatives and the Senate. But more fundamentally - as the first elections… Audio

With kitten season well underway, animal behaviourist Dr Elsa Flint joins the show to share some tips and tricks on how to train any new additions, as well as dealing with problematic behaviour from… Audio

Air New Zealand has released ambitious plans for emissions free flying on all their smallest regional flights by 2030.

The project will cost hundreds of millions of dollars with aims for the first… Video, Audio

New Zealanders have been proudly nuclear free for decades, but do we really know what nuclear power involves? Audio

The cluster of hepatitis A infections linked to some frozen imported berries keeps growing, despite the suspect products being ditched from supermarket shelves.

A range of Foodstuffs' Pam's brand… Video, Audio

New Zealand has had some big ambitions in the Pacific and mixed relations with our neighbours. Video, Audio

People who own homes in flood zones might see their property values sink, according to the Reserve Bank.

It has suggested banks could tighten their lending criteria in flood prone areas - finding in… Video, Audio

The Art of Entertaining - Welcome to Our Party Video, Audio

Whether it's big tech, big pharma or big supermarkets , Sally Hubbard argues monopolies have a vise-like grip on our lives. She is an antitrust expert and Director of Enforcement Strategy at the US… Audio

Why isn’t New Zealand part of Australia? | The Aotearoa History Show | RNZ

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A new study suggests a significant number of undergraduate students are uncomfortable sharing their views in class on certain topics - such as gender, politics, religion and sexual orientation. Almost… Audio

New Zealand's second hui to counter terrorism and violent extremism sparked by the Christchurch mosque attacks has wrapped up in Auckland,  but those subjected to hate speech, say little is changing.

In photographer Jane Ussher's latest book, she has turned her lens on the diverse and eclectic interiors of New Zealand homes. Over a two year period she shot more than 300 pictures which have ended… Audio

Twitter's blue tick is one of many functions of the platform being given a shake-up following Elon Musk's takeover.

Some commentators are speculating he'll be putting a pricetag on the tick, which… Audio

New Zealand is sizing up its options in responding to the violent crackdown on protests in Iran, now that a Kiwi couple are no longer in the country.  
 
The Government is seeking advice on what… Audio

Why has a national, integrated public transport ticketing system been so long in the making? Audio

Christall Lowe is a photojournalist with a love of food who's used her skills to create a visually stunning book celebrating kai, whakapapa and whanau. She begins by sharing her first food memory - of… Audio

Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has continued in a spectacularly chaotic fashion. Twitter announced on Saturday the deal had been closed on Friday - and one of Musk's first acts was to boot three top… Audio

The music festival season is rapidly approaching and organisers have their fingers crossed after two years of cancellations.

It's looking to be the first unrestricted summer since the pandemic began… Audio

New Zealanders like to think we have a “Number 8 Wire Mentality” - a rough and ready enthusiasm for fixing and building stuff with limited resources.  Video, Audio