Last Saturday morning, Kim Hill caught up with Ann Dowsett-Johnston to talk about women and alcohol. Ann is a Canadian writer, editor and co-chair of the advocacy group the National Roundtable on Girls, Women and Alcohol.
The Arts on Sunday investigated the cull of homemade TV drama. All of last year's hits – Go Girls, Nothing Trivial and The Almighty Johnsons – are now gone. Lynn Freeman asked if this is the end of an era, or just the usual TV turnover?
On Wednesday, Nine to Noon caught up with Siousxie Wiles, an Auckland University microbiologist who is researching the use of bioluminescence in bacteria.
Dr Wiles was this month awarded the Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize and the Royal Society's Paul Callaghan Medal for outstanding contribution to science communication.
Going from bacteria to bitcoins in the same episode, Kathryn Ryan then spoke to Andy Greenberg, a technolgy, privacy and information security reporter for Forbes magazine. Greenberg is the author of This Machine Kills Secrets, a chronicle of the history and future of information leaks, from the Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks.
On Friday, Nine to Noon caught up with Hunter Lee Soik, who is launching a new iPhone app called Shadow, which allows people to record their dreams and make sense of them. He wants to develop the biggest dream database in the world.
Recordings can be pushed up the cloud where trends will be analysed and dreamers can be put in touch with others who've had similar dreams.
And on Radio New Zealand Concert, Eva Radich talked with Lisa Cherrington, who is the winner of the inaugural Brad McGann Filmwriting award from Victoria University's Institute of Modern Letters.
