This week's critter is the piriwai or spiny gilled mayfly, Coloburiscus humeralis. They spend most of their lives as flat-bodied nymphs, clinging to rocks in swift, clear streams and rivers. Adult piriwai have beautiful translucent wings and no mouthparts - they're just looking to reproduce before they die, only living for a few hours or days. Catc…

This week NZ Gardener Magazine editor Jo McCarroll is along to demystify copper. There's an article in this month's edition of the magazine written by Nelson horticulturist Bill Brett. Jo shares with Mark some of his insights and how copper should be used.

Cook, food stylist and author Kelly Gibney shares a great recipe for the easiest one-bowl GF pizza with a mushroom-and-leek topping.

For NZ Live today we head to our Wellington Studio, and the band Dateline Dateline is the musical project of Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington singer Katie Evans.

Today we join David in Christchurch who has a few brushes with the freaky to share...

Today Mark catches up with Dunedin motorhead Andy Martin.

Tuhura Otago Museum was established during the global peak of museum-building.

An estimated 753,000 New Zealanders live with migraines but despite their prevalence, there is surprisingly little known about their cause, and how best to treat them.

There has been much discussion about the age and capacity of US President Joe Biden (81). Have we ever had similar issues with our leaders in NZ history? Today Dr Grant Morris looks back and find out.

Today Ali talks about a 'back to the future' issue of not relying on digital technology for tickets, meeting agendas or making payments. She talks about the benefits of using 'hard copies' to get by in the modern world.

Tony Ineson is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Tony was the captain of the 1976 gold medal-winning hockey team. His brother Chris was a New Zealand representative at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Tony was elected, with the rest of the g…

No-plant regeneration is a method that let's nature lead the way, and its seen landscapes transform from a scrubby paddock to a lush native paradise. Famously pioneered by Hugh Wilson in Akaroa's Hinewai Reserve, the practice is bearing fruit in Wellington's Long Gully Bush Reserve. Otari-Wilton Bush manager Tim Park speaks to Emile about the benef…

Thrift shopping is in vogue and it's widely celebrated for it's potential to keep textile waste out of landfill... opshops are experiencing a hey day - and vintage and upmarket second hand clothing stores are on the bandwagon Many of the latter choose to import stock from overseas, despite a growing problem of textile waste - in NZ about 180-thousa…

New Zealand's 'Queen of Crime', mystery author Dame Ngaio Marsh, had a penchant for classic cars. Dame Ngaio, a writer in the so-called 'Golden Age of Detective Fiction' - among the likes of Agatha Christie - died 42 years ago. Her classic cars scattered to the wind, and now the Ngaio Marsh Trust and historian and author of Classic Jaguars New Zeal…

Different shouldn't doom anyone to unemployment or underemployment.

This week's midweek meal inspiration of easy eats revolves around using up the left overs from the Sunday roast.

Today Ximena talks to Jesse about Master: The allegations against Neil Gaiman and Juggernaut: The Story of the Fourth Labour Government.