Jesse Mulligan

In 2021 the famous New Zealand short story Coming Home in the Dark by Owen Marshall was carefully adapted for the big screen actor and director James Ashcroft. Audio

Harakeke has a special place here in Aotearoa, but the native flax is also one of the strongest sustainable fibres in the world. To develop a harakeke product for the global market,  23-year-olds Ben… Audio

When Sealord introduced school-hours shifts at their Nelson Factory, they went from labour shortages to more applicants than they could accommodate. CEO Doug Paulin talks to Jesse. Audio

What if? It's a question that haunts investigators and family members who lost loved ones in the worst domestic terrorist attack in America, the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

This week for Bookmarks we meet co-founder of Letterboxd, Matthew Buchanan. As well as running the online social networking service for movie buffs he's also a designer. He talks to Jesse about his… Audio

Last year local Whangamata poet Mike Beveridge published a book called Poems for Remembering, which was then read by prominent, Spanish blues musician Jeff Espinoza, who turned Mike's poems into an… Audio

We have already experienced historic storms this year, with scientists globally agreeing that climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. What could this mean… Audio

Local bird enthusiasts in Taranaki are getting in bird watching practice ahead of a big conference next week. Around 160 scientists and dedicated birders will gather to learn to learn a variety of… Audio

Scientists at the University of Canterbury are testing theories about how to remove methane produced by cows from the atmosphere. They're working on biofilters, which are micro-organisms that can… Audio

Martin Fletcher spent five decades covering war, revolution and natural disasters all over the world, most as the Middle East Correspondent and Tel Aviv Bureau Chief for NBC News. Audio

Today's music feature is celebrating New Zealand Music Month. Multi-award winning director, producer and documentary maker, Dan Salmon has written a piece for Audioculture about the vast collection of… Audio

A mysterious, potentially very well known photographer, has gifted an image of Allan Adams in Port Chalmers, to a gallery to auction. His wish is that all the proceeds go to Allan, who has currently… Audio

 There's a new exhibition on at Te Papa this week, Mawhiti Tino Rawe - Clever Crustaceans, where you can go an interact with five "celeb crustaceans". NIWA scientist Dr Kareen Schnabel talks to Jesse.

At 11:59pm on February 14 2021, Auckland moved to alert level 3 after a student at Manukau Institute of Technology tested positive for COVID 19 Micah Sili was the student president at the time, and… Audio

When BBC Laura Trevelyan newsreader recently discovered her family had owned more than a thousand slaves on a sugar plantation in the Caribbean, she knew there had to be a reckoning. Video, Audio

Graeme Carter, President of the Railways and Locomotive Society of New Zealand and owner of G T Carter Transport Books Whanganui is our expert this week. Audio