RNZ: Saturday Morning

The Legendary Coasters App is an immersive storytelling tool that lets users explore Hokitika's colourful history through significant characters from the past. 

Launching this coming Monday, home grown dramedy Dead Ahead involves secrets, surprises and three mischievous kehua - ghosts. 

License to Drive follows disabled learner drivers - alongside their instructors, as they experience the emotional highs and lows of getting behind the wheel. 

Wellington essayist Nadine Hura's new collection Slowing the Sun is a karanga to those who have left us and those still with us.

The debut novel of former lawyer, Alice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann is set in WWII Brussels as the Nazis invade Belgium. 

Georgie Falloon grew up with large feet. When she couldn't find a pair of shoes to wear to her wedding, she founded NZ's first online shoe retailer. 

Captain Cook's ship HMS Endeavour has been located off the US East coast - following 25 years of archaeological research and underwater investigations. 

A new documentary uncovers the illicit trade in thousand-year-old looted Cambodian temple treasures. From remote villages to elite international art institutions, LOOT uncovers the underbelly of a multi-billion-dollar trade in blood antiquities and the global art houses receiving them. 

Globally, health and wellness is a multi-billion-dollar industry. Many products claim to help with sleep or stress, including natural remedies.

This week Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp died, after a battle with kidney disease.

The indirect route to progress - where there's success without victory - a win perhaps for future generations, if not immediately, is the focus of award-winning Guardian columnist Rebecca Solnit's latest essay collection. No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain argues for the long-term view and the power of collective action, making a case for seeding change wherever possible, and offering us all a path out of the wilderness. Rebecca Solnit talks to Susie about celebrating indirect and unpredictable consequences, and embracing slowness and imperfection, which, she argues, are key to understanding the possibilities of change.

Next Tuesday the IHC - which advocates for the rights, inclusion and welfare of people with intellectual disabilities will offiicially launch its new report entitled The Cost of Exclusion.

This week negotiating the settlement for Aotearoa's largest iwi Ngāpuhi has seen yet another twist. Moana Tuwhare, the General Manager of Te Runanga o Ngāpuhi and former Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson speaks to Mihi.

This week the Middle East has been on a knife edge, after the US entered the conflict between Israel and Iran. Within the last few hours US President Donald Trump has said he would bomb Iran again "without a question. Absolutely" if intelligence were to find that Iran can enrich uranium to a level higher. After the US bombed Iran's nuclear sites last Sunday, president Trump claimed there was "complete obliteration." He then announced a ceasefire, but Israeli strikes continued, sparking a furious outburst from Trump who dropped his own f-bomb at NATO summit. The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner speaks to Susie.

It's been a wet and wild start to the school holidays. MetService's head of weather news Heather Keats talks to Mihi.

Matariki is a great time of year to slow down, reflect, and take stock of the different areas of our lives, and for some, it might be a good time to get into the garden. 

If you're looking for something to do to pass the winter blues by, look no further than the Brew of Islands Festival taking place next weekend in Kerikeri. 

Mother of Chooks is a joyful short documentary which follows Australian woman Elaine James who has become a minor celebrity - all because she keeps pet chickens. It was after losing her sister, that Elaine found companionship in a rescue chicken named Flapper - who she takes with her to cafes, parks, and has even toilet trained. Elaine has become a local legend - known as the Mother of Chooks. The short documentary film Mother of Chooks is showing at the nationwide Doc Edge Festival starting later this month. Susie speaks to co-director Jesse Leaman about this heartwarming story and what it was like to work alongside his mum who was also involved in the project.

Anyone who has or knows someone with ME, chronic syndrome fatigue or long covid knows that being believed is one of the toughest parts of having the condition. 

New York Times bestselling author, historian and White House correspondent Lynne Olson's new book The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück tells of defiance in a notorious women-only Nazi concentration camp. 

Voted one of America's best photographers, Colorado-based Kirsten Lewis spent 15 years capturing the complex yet fulfilling roller-coaster ride of parenting. 

When you think of bellringing in an old cathedral, the first thing that comes to mind probably isn't today's youth.

Professor Natalie Waran has been recognised for her lifetime's research into improving the lives of horses. 

For some of us, a day or an hour disappears in the blink of an eye. For others it might feel much longer. But why? 

One of people who had a hand in deciding when we mark Matariki is Māori astronomer Victoria Campbell and she's had a busy year from partnering with Minecraft to creating unique stamps with NZ Post. 

For schools delivering the lunches themselves, there have been serious cost pressures. But one Taranaki high school says they've managed to have small surplus operating under the $4 per lunch budget.

The Prime Minister has wrapped up a whirlwind three-day trip in China. Jason Young, the director of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre dissects it.

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has slammed New Zealand for what he calls a "patronising" approach over its China deal. This week it was revealed that nearly $20m of New Zealand funding to the Cook Islands is on ice. 

President Trump has said he will decide if the US will get directly involved in the Iran-Israel conflict within the next fortnight. 

The recent upsurge in conflict between Israel and Iran continues to build. European foreign ministers have been holding talks with Iran to try to restore a diplomatic path over its nuclear programme. 

A question everyone must ask themselves at some point: what does a life well lived look like? Tyler J. VanderWeele is co-director of the five-year Global Flourishing Study.

Legendary author Witi Ihimaera is the man behind Whale Rider and Pounamu Pounamu. Already a celebrated master of the pen, at the age of 80 he felt a yearning to master something new and learn te reo Māori.

On discovering indigenous groups world-wide have traditionally derived 30-80 percent of their calories from saturated fat, Kay Baxter found it impossible not to question her existing assumptions. 

The real-life stranger-than-fiction story of serial killer Reg Christie rocked London in the 1950s. 

Issa Amro is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year for his decades of work advocating for peaceful resistance against settlements, which are illegal under international law, advocacy which has seen him become a target. 

Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist and author of New York Times bestseller The Outlaw Ocean, Ian Urbina is director of non-profit The Outlaw Ocean Project based in Washington D.C., investigating human rights, environment and labour concerns. 

Next week the GDP figures will be released, providing a snapshot of the performance of the economy, so what are experts predicting? 

Most people fit into one of two categories when it comes to the great debate of the best time to shower. But science is adding fuel to the debate.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris's 2024 documentary Separated explores the US government's family separation policy at the southern border during the first Trump administration, when an estimated 5,500 children were separated from their parents.

Award-winning artist Julia Holden has invited pets and pet lovers to her exhibition, Best in Show 2025, showing in Auckland. 

A charitable trust is partnering with schools to support neurodiverse students in our country's growing Asian population. 

Protests over President Donald Trump's immigration raids have spread from California to other US cities, with hundreds of nationwide demonstrations planned for Saturday.