Easter Monday Podcast Options

9:12 AM.Two things are a given on Easter- chocolate and holiday traffic. Waka Kotahi journey manager, Liam Ryan tells Karyn what motorists should expect this Easter Monday. Read more Audio

9:07 AM.The boarders may now be open, but New Zealanders are still flocking to the water in what was known post-lockdown as the great boating boom. Boat sales have continued to grow, with the latest Trade Me… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.The Prime Minister is today embarking on her first international trip in almost 800 days. She'll arrive in Singapore first, before travelling to Japan later this week. Trade will be at the forefront… Read more Audio

8:21 AM.A group of engineers are working to reduce childhood concussions in our national sport. In 2019 there were almost three thousand ACC claims for rugby players with concussion; and more that half were… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.As inflation bites and house prices stay stubbornly high, banks are now encouraging less tradition methods of home ownership. Currently, if a median-income household saved 15 percent of their income… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Karyn Hay goes on a journey through the world of music from one artist to another. She starts with New Zealand composer and musician Louisa Nicklin.  Read more Audio

10:50 AM.Is a glut of fejoas, apples and pears starting to put a strain on the fruit bowls? Never fear, Helen McNamara from the Hawkes Bay culinary institute The Cook and Grow Project is here to help with the… Read more Audio

10:20 AM.David Mountain is a writer, speaker and editor based in Edinburgh in Scotland and has recently published his first book: Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why It Matters.  Read more Audio

10:05 AM.A new book has been published looking at the history of the punk scene in Auckland in the 20th century. From AK79 to the Class of 81 tracks the world of the punk scene through the eyes of the then… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Artist Christian Nicholson has a new exhibition opening soon at Art by the Sea Gallery in Takapuna in Auckland called "Ready to Roll: the Kiwi Music I Grew Up With". He joins Karyn to talk about… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.What do we plant at this time of year in different parts of the country? And what problems might we be running into? Gardener Adrian Sutherland runs the thriving Facebook page One Minute Gardening and… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Award winning New Zealand photographer Robin Hammond has just landed again on New Zealand soil. He's been documenting the quarantine process while also still working with aid organisation Witness… Read more Audio

8:37 AM.Self isolation, plague, closed borders, quarantine. These are all words we've become very familiar with over the past year, but they have their roots in plagues of the past. Historian and medievalist… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.We know a lot less than we think about the deep oceans of the world. It's been a source of fascination for humans since we first saw the ocean, and understanding it properly is now more important than… Read more Audio

11:42 AM.New Zealand’s current Poet Laureate, performance poet, reviewer and non-fiction writer, David Eggleton, talks about his role as a composer of poems for the nation.  Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Kate Marinkovich ran Tomboy Cafe, cakery and eatery in central Wellington until the order came to go into lockdown.  She joins Karyn to answer all your culinary lockdown questions. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:21 AM.Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand, is a new anthology, born in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque attacks and asks, what is New Zealand now; who are we? Paula Morris has edited the… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.The Dean of Christchurch Cathedral, Dean Lawrence Kimberley, tells Karyn Hay how he began conducting services online to reach many parishioners as possible. Read more Audio

10:42 AM.Now that WFH (working from home) has become a thing and even a new term in the Oxford dictionary, we check in with Paul Spain, Chief Executive and Futurist, Gorilla Technology, to see what tech he’s… Read more Audio

10:23 AM.Karyn asks the question of writer and columnist, Jane Bowron, “If you were going to write a column this week, what would you write it on?” Jane shares her wit and insight with us on the times we’re… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Sam Hunt is holed up in the far north listening to Bob Dylan and German composer Ernest Bloch but mostly listening to silence. He talks to Karyn Hay and reads a couple of poems. Read more Video, Audio

9:46 AM.There's never been a better time to get into reading so the new online campaign Blokes vs Books had a very timely launch last week. In a series of short, light-hearted interviews, playwright Victor… Read more Video, Audio

9:16 AM.Physicist, professor Shaun Hendy, heads Te Pūnaha Matatini, one of at least three teams crunching the data on Covid19. Shaun explains explains what it's going to take to beat the virus. Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Both the incoming and the outgoing Poets Laureate join us this morning for some poetic inspiration on Easter Monday. Selina Tusitala Marsh, who has recently handed over the baton to David Eggleton… Read more Audio