King’s Birthday Monday with Anna Thomas Podcast Options

8:10 AM.Curfews are in place in many states across the US and a state of emergency has been imposed in LA after violent protests over police brutality in the death of unarmed black man George Floyd in police… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Our last guest is one half of the duo known in Christchurch as the Brilliant Bagshaws Dr Sue Bagshaw has worked in the youth health sector for 30 years. She's set up and been involved in so many… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Alicia Olatuja is a mezzo-soprano who covers songs by artists as diverse as Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman. And she's just as much at home singing gospel and opera. You might not know… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.The 28th Maori Battalion is well known for its role in the Second World War but it was a story of many parts. The companies of the battalion were drawn from different tribal and regional groups and… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:52 AM.Film Reviewer Sarah McMullan has has had a look at Doc Edge 2019: a festival of documentaries and she joins us in the studio. Read more Audio

10:32 AM.Mark Costello is an Auckland University marine ecologist, who co-leads the world's most comprehensive stocktake of marine life, which has enabled scientists to name all but half a million of all… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Research by the Maori health researcher, Professor Papaarangi Reid shows there was a nine year gap in life expectancy between Maori and non-Maori - a couple of years ago research showed it had been… Read more Audio

9:36 AM.My next guest is someone who has always had her tipuna by her side. She comes from the East Coast, near Gisborne. Her life's work led her to head the Maori Women's Welfare League in the 1990's, to the… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.She has for decades been known as Sir Peter Jackson's partner in life and on all his films since 'Meet the Feebles' in 1989. Together with fellow screenwriter Philippa Boyens, she has three Oscars for… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.Anjum Rahman arrived in New Zealand in 1972 at the age of five from Canada, though she was born in the Ganges Plains in India. She is a political and human rights activist who is now a member of the… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Bob McKerrow is a man of action. He's been a mountaineer, polar adventurer, humanitarian, and is now a lecturer, writer and poet. For 36 years he worked in conflict situations and in times of major… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:45 AM.The third of June marked the anniversary of the first women to train for the police force. In 1941 ten trainees were chosen. They had to be between 25 and 40 years old, pass a medical test, have… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.A mother-daughter project Our Wāhine is celebrating 125 years of women's suffrage with 125 illustrations of women, including radio broadcaster Aunt Daisy, astronomer Beatrice Tinsley, and master… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:10 AM.Dame Products is a crowdfunded sex toy company that aims to make highly engineered and appealing sex toys for women. Dame Products co-founder and CEO Alexandra Fine has a Masters in Clinical… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Poūkahangatus is the debut collection by Victoria University International Institute of Modern Letters graduate and Adam Foundation Prize winner Tayi Tibble. Read more Audio

10:25 AM.Glaswegian musical trio Chvrches may have relocated to New York but their recently released third album Love Is Dead has all the hallmarks of their previous records - with some extra pop sheen.

Lead… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Dame Stephanie Shirley (who goes by Steve) is an IT pioneer, a philanthropist involved in autism charities, and a refugee. She was born Vera Buchthal and she and her sister were sent to England from… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Lisa Blair’s solo voyage round the Antarctic turned into a life-threatening nightmare as she battled a broken mast amid giant waves – but she still made history. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Dame Lynley Dodd is special to many. She is the writer and illustrator of dozens of books including the eternally popular Hairy Maclary series. Her words and images are imprinted onto the brains on… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Megan Whelan has already interviewed multi-award winning Canadian New Zealand musician Tami Neilson twice in the last year. Her new record is called Sassafrass! Roll on interview number three. Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Wanaka's very own Annabel Langbein is now an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit thanks to her services to food writing. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Japan, like any nation, is adjusting to different generations' expectation of how society should be. With a falling birthrate and a low if growing migrant intake; Japan faces a future where the… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.One of the most high profile people being honoured on Queen's Birthday is the 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand - Bill English. He is now Knight Commander of The New Zealand Order of Merit, for… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Former Labour MP Luamanavao Winnie Laban is New Zealand's first Samoan Dame. The Wellingtonian is one of eight new knights and dames that top this year's Queens Birthday honours. The Victoria… Read more Audio

11:50 AM."Very honoured, very privileged, very humble" says Sir Michael Jones on his Queen's Birthday honour.  Read more Audio