Jesse Mulligan

The internet as we know it is over. It's Amy Webb's job to look at where technology is taking us as head of the Future Today Institute. She says we are in the middle of a perfect storm of advances in… Audio

For Bookmarks today we're finding out about the favourite things of Academy Award Winner costume designer Jim Acheson. He was one of the designers on Monty Pythons's The Meaning of Life - which is… Audio

After 20 years of hot debate in the field scientists have finally settled on the origins of butterflies. To explain is entomologist and Associate Professor at the Australian National University… Audio

A US firm is promoting a unique cryogenics programme where clients are preserved in a specific way shortly after death with the promise, if they can, will be woken again with a cure for their… Audio

Roughly every five years, conservation workers go deep into the forests of Aotearoa to count animal droppings, birds and carbon. But government funding for the task has quietly been halved, meaning… Audio

Space is no longer the final frontier, a noble quest to satisfy humankind's destiny. There's a new space race, one between start up companies trying to be the next Fed-ex to the stars. Audio

For today's music feature we're looking at the life and music of the super star widely regarded as the 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll', Tina Turner. Audio

An ward-winning documentary maker is hoping to uncover the secrets of one our top artists - singer, composer, front man and euphonium player Don McGlashan. The project, directed by Shirley Horrocks. Audio

The New Zealand International Comedy Festival is in full swing right now. Self described as two 'Waiuku country bumpkins' Tough Tiger Fist is a musical comedy duo, raising money for Music Helps. Audio

For the first time ever, research has shown that seismic signals can be used to track pyroclastic flows from volcanic eruptions. Mathematics and Statistics Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, Dr… Audio

American polymath Derek Sivers gets a "deep sense of happiness and identity" from his New Zealand passport. Audio

Loud music at night, unmown berms, overgrown trees, cars parked in the wrong place... not everyone has good neighbours. Civil litigation expert Nathan Tetzlaff explains what you can - and can't - do… Audio

This week we're talking about the koekoea or long-tailed cuckoo (Urodynamis taitensis) - an enigmatic native bird with an elegant long tail, a screeching call and some pretty strange breeding habits.