Labour Day Podcast Options

8:14 AM.With the US Elections just over a week away, we catch up on the latest news coming out of the States with correspondent Jagruti Dave. Read more Video, Audio

11:55 AM.New Zealand Land Wars commemorations are getting underway with Te Putake o te Riri, He Ra Maumahara in Waitara to commemorate the wars that took place in Taranaki. RNZ is releasing a documentary this… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.RNZ sport reporter Joe Porter joins us from Japan to take the pulse of the crowds after a huge semi-final weekend. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Earlier this year American sporting journalism website The Athletic made the ambitious move of buying up football writers across the UK and Europe. It's a bit of a head scratcher. In a period where… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.A list of the greatest hundred singers of all time from 2008 surfaced this week and caused all sorts of people to stop and scratch their heads. RNZ Music's Waveney Russ joins us to try and work out… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.What is a children's book in 2019, what language do children and young adults communicate in and has it changed since the days of Beatrix potter? Wellington Author Michael Petherick has a new book out… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.The 2020 election is shaping up to be a pretty interesting period for minor parties. Will they survive, are they the linchpin for a new Government? Can the ones that do exist get along? And, on a… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.How do our voices sound to others and where does emotion come from in the voice? The University of New England's Dr Kristal Spreadborough researches the links between physiology and sound… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.It's spring and we can start thinking about all that fantastic produce that turns up at this time of the year! But how do we go about growing and cooking it all? Especially if we feel like we have no… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.RNZ Concert's annual countdown of New Zealand's favourite classical music is on today until 7pm and RNZ Concert host Nick Tipping has run across the corridor to fill us in on the hot classical goss! Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Today is Labour Day, but what does that mean in 2019 and where have the name and the holiday come from? Cybèle Locke is a senior lecturer in history at Victoria University with a focus on Labour… Read more Audio

8:05 AM.Donald Trump says US forces killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a "daring and dangerous" early morning raid by US Special Forces on Sunday.  Read more Audio

11:55 AM.A group of young writers came together at this year's Young Writer's Festival in Dunedin to talk about modern feminism. Journalist, Sasha Borissenko, was one of those on stage at The Blaming of the… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Tiny Ruins performs live in our Auckland studio ahead of tours in the UK, Europe, and Australia. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.The "equanut" is bringing a new economy to parts of Papua New Guinea, providing work for families and helping families send children to school. Gabe Davidson, James Bushell and Clare Christian of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:45 AM.When did emotional labour become a 'thing' and who does it? Gemma Hartley asked for her bathroom to be deep cleaned for Mother's Day. It wasn't about the cleaning; it was about the process of finding… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.New Plymouth writer Steph Matuku has done something pretty special - she has published not one but two debut novels for young readers: Flight of the Fantail, and Whetu Toa and the Magician. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Nick has been writing features for the New Yorker for 18 years. He tells Megan Whelan how he manages to keep readers engaged in long form writing and his approach to some of his recent work, a kayak… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.What's on the seafloor in Wellington harbour? Project Baseline is part of an international network of divers who monitor sites around the world for rubbish and restore them to their original state to… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:10 AM.How will artificial intelligence and the gig economy change work as we know it? Megan Whelan talks to demographer Professor Tahu Kukutai from Waikato University, Tech Futures Lab and The Mind Lab… Read more Video, Audio

8:40 AM.Unconscious bias has been a buzzword for a few years now, and many employers claim they are aware of their biases and simply want to employ people based on merit, not gender, team fit or ethnicity… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.Cultural historian Kate Hannah has made it her mission to find out what role New Zealand's women scientists have played, and what's kept them from scaling the same lofty heights as their better-known… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.People who usually take the bus to work in three main centres will need to find another way to work tomorrow. Jared Abbott of First Union explains why action is being taken. Audio