Jim Mora

Ellen Nakashima, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and National Security Correspondent for The Washington Post joins the show discuss Assange's arrest and what next. Audio

What makes people jump to their feet and on to the dance floor? Tomas Matthews from Concordia University's department of psychology researched just that. Video, Audio

Author Catherine Robertson has been thinking about the merits of feeling good about not being good at things. Audio

Researchers have found out what made two of our famous birds flightless, but with this new discovery will scientists now try to reverse it? Audio

Historian and author Peter Cooke's looked right back to the early days of Maori settlement to trace the pioneering engineering the country has been founded on. He speaks to Jim about the advantage our… Audio

Mark Knoff-Thomas, New Market Business Association CEO, speaks to Jim about a survey showing how many people shop while under the influence. Audio

British pre-eminent military historian Sir Antony Beevor's coming to Auckland Writer's Festival in May. He speaks to Jim about what history can tell us about the future.  Audio

In the UK alone there is an estimated 30 billion pounds’ worth of unused clothes sitting in wardrobes. Audio

Federated Farmers Dairy Chair, Chris Lewis, explains to Jim why he wants the clocks to stay permanently on Summer time.  Audio

Aviation reporter Steve Creedy from airlineratings.com says criticism of Boeing about its policy of offering safety 'extras' for an additional cost has been exaggerated. Audio

Lisa Tamati shares her heartfelt story about trying to conceive a family using a surrogate. Audio

This week's Calling Home guest is expat Gavin Bell who's living in Oslo Norway. Audio

Dr Claire Matthews, director of academic quality at Massey University, gives her thoughts on Rotary International.  Audio

Technology commentator Paul Brislen gives his take on the  flaw in the Huawei Matebook laptops, discovered  by Microsoft researchers. Audio

Guardian Brexit correspondent Lisa O'Carroll speaks to Jim about the latest turn in the Brexit saga in Westminster. Audio

Renee Hollis dedicated most of 2018 to speaking to the country's oldest people. She travelled around Aotearoa to interview centenarians for her book  Keepers of History. Audio

Three Minutes Max: short, sharp opinions from commentators around New Zealand. This week we've gone across to Australia to hear from Rhonda Itaoui who's been studying Islamophobia and its impact on… Audio

Marjorie Woollacott's a professor of neuroscience at Oregon University as well as a keen meditator. She has also researched what may control us outside of our physical brains. Audio

Psychologist Dr Linda Blair says the latest internet fad of folding washing is pure nonsense. She speaks to Jim about real ways of restoring calm to stressful lives. Audio