Kathryn Ryan

The government needs to take more urgent and bold actions on climate change, or risk missing its own emissions targets for 2026 to 2030 according to the Climate Change Commission. The Commission says… Audio

Science commentator Laurie Winkless joins Kathryn to talk about a global view of who is most at risk of severe flu symptoms and even death. University of Melbourne did a meta-analysis of studies… Audio

It's 1917 in Messines and a shell-splinter has just hit the knee of Lindsay Inglis, a Kiwi soldier. He's given an anti-tetanus serum from a syringe the "size of a bicycle pump" and told he's just… Audio

Music 101 host Charlotte Ryan joins Kathryn to play some music from last night's Taite Music Prize winner, Princess Chelsea. Audio

RNZ Taranaki reporter Robin Martin joins Kathryn to look at the significant recent Treaty settlement in the region which, among other things, consigns the 'Mount Egmont' name for Taranaki Maunga to… Audio

Ash Davida Jane reviews Ithaca by Alie Benge, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press Audio

Silva Mcleod joins Kathryn Ryan to talk about her life, her 30-year aviation career and the new memoir Island Girl to Airline Pilot: A Story of Love, Sacrifice and Taking Flight. Audio

Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst joins Kathryn to talk about the Voice referendum and the Albanese government considering a possible tweak to the wording as it seeks to improve its chances of… Audio

A new survey finds over half of our children are exercising less than an hour a day. That's under what is universally recommend by public health physicians for daily exercise. New Zealand, US and UK… Audio

A month after the Wairoa mayor Craig Little asked the Hawkes Bay Regional Council to launch an inquiry into the February floods he's still waiting for an official response. Up to 400 homes on the… Audio

The two hottest sporting teams in the country are separated by the Bombay hills and two extra (or fewer, depending how you look at it) players on the field. Commentator Sam Ackerman looks at how the… Audio

Inge Woolf was born in 1934 to a prosperous Jewish family in Vienna, but by 1938, the Nazis were marching into her hometown. What follows is a remarkable story of courage and escape for Inge and her… Audio

Business commentator Rebecca Stevenson joins Kathryn to talk about a scheduled US court appearance this week for Rupert Murdoch over claims his right-wing news channel Fox attempted to ruin the… Audio

NZ Herald reporter Georgina Campbell joins Kathryn for the latest on the faulty streetlight saga in Wellington, after a plan to stop light shining into people's homes were spectacularly wrong… Audio

Lynn Freeman reviews The Deck by Fiona Farrell, published by Penguin Random House NZ. Audio

A Kiwi historian is helping with the detective work linking The Guardian to 19th Century trans-Atlantic slavery. On the face of it, it would seem incongruous to associate the liberal Guardian with… Audio

US correspondent Ron Elving joins Kathryn to talk about why all eyes are on the Supreme Court, as it weighs whether to rule immediately on the mifepristone abortion drug issue or push it out till… Audio

A collaborative conservation project to rewild the Hauraki Gulf with green lipped mussels/kutai is underway. The joint initiative between Kelly Tarlton's Marine Wildlife Trust, the University of… Audio, Gallery

The sister of a mentally unwell man who went missing in the bush on a work trial is blaming "a litany failures" from the various agencies who should have kept him safe, and is still looking for… Audio

Kennedy has his eyes on the Pacific, and the endeavours of two Australians who have been bitten by the rowing bug across the great ocean. He'll also look at the growing concern over whether island… Audio