RNZ: Saturday Morning

Our resident gardener Hannah Zwartz is back, this time with advice on how to show weeds who's boss. Hannah has over 30 years' experience gardening professionally, including looking after the herb and succulent areas at Wellington Botanic Garden and running community market gardens in the Hutt Valley. She answers your questions.

GP turned award-winning author Fiona Sussman's latest crime novel Hooked Up explores the manipulative nature of reality TV. 

Aaron Tait was only 17 when he was deployed to Iraq. Now he has written about his inner battle with war - and his search for peace. 

Journalist and podcaster Toby Manhire is in to talk to Mihi and Guyon about Juggernaut Series Two. 

A study in the British Journal of Psychiatry supports what some mothers' groups have known for a while - group singing helps with postnatal depression. 

Brendan's feature film Christy rolls back the issues surrounding the foster-care system for late-teenagers.

After nearly thirty years as a GP, Dr Jeremy Lockwood hung up his stethoscope and starting hunting dinosaurs - swapping human anatomy for ancient bones. 

The first season of The Chase New Zealand premieres on Monday - Anne Hegerty aka The Governess is one of the chasers they face. 

A team of four Kiwi adventurers are taking on NZ Godzone for Movember to raise awareness of men's mental health. 

November is Pet Diabetes Awareness Month and though pet weight management is no joke, a potential weight-loss pill for pooches and pussy cats is ruffling feathers.

This week Labour announced it will campaign for the next election with a capital gains tax as a key policy and point of difference. It wants a 28% tax on profits made from the sale of investment property. Family homes and farms will be exempt. Labour wants to channel the revenue it delivers towards providing three free doctor visits a year for every New Zealander. John Minas is an Associate Professor at Monash University's Business School, who specializes in tax policy - and specifically - capital gains tax. He tells Guyon from Melbourne that New Zealand is currently an outlier.

On Monday a landmark case will begin in the High Court in Wellington over fresh water. 

A public health academic says there is potential for a serious outbreak of measles in New Zealand given the local transmission rate and low vaccination uptake. 

Donald Trump threw a nuclear curve ball this week saying he wants to start testing nuclear weapons so the US can keep pace with Russia and China. 

Queen Shirl'e is an Auckland-based hip hop artist and community leader known for for founding the Queen Shirl'e Academy, where she helps young people thrive.

Chef Del Holland shares her tips for making a proper risotto, what to do with sourdough discard (no you don't have to just throw it out), and a recipe for the ''best chocolate cake ever'.

Seven years old at the time she walked the entire Te Araroa trail, Emilie Bruce, along with mum Victoria, did the 3-thousand-kilometre walk from Cape Reinga to Bluff over six months.

Professor Charlotte Macdonald talks to Mihi about the significance of Auckland's Great South Road in the New Zealand Wars.

Live from the Ōtāhuhu Food Festival, Mihi speaks with local foodies Hare George and Rudy Alejandro from The Slush Truck.

In early times Ōtāhuhu was a bustling trading spot with a portage for waka on the Manukau. Local iwi Chairperson of Te Akitai Waiohua, Karen Wilson shares the history of the region.

A rich seam of themes can be mined from Elspeth Sandys' writing. Trauma has dogged her life. "Some people go to therapy" she says. "I write." 

Aroha Harris is a history lecturer at Auckland University, she shares the story of the Marmaduke Nixon monument in the Auckland suburb of Ōtāhuhu. 

Mihi is reporting live from the Ōtāhuhu Food Festival throughout the morning. She speaks with Aute Neli from Kiwi Tucker Mussel Fritters.

The trial of Erin Patterson captured headlines around the world. 'Recipe for Murder' provides insights into the woman herself and how she was caught.    

For centuries, it was believed people in comas could not think or understand but now with new technology, we know this is not always true. 

Sam Dalrymple's debut book explores the collapse of the Indian Empire and how five major partitions between 1931 and 1971 created twelve modern nations. 

In an age where information and disinformation is available at the touch of a button, trust is one of the most pressing issues of our time.

If you are in Tāmaki Makaurau today, you might want to head out to the Ōtāhuhu Food Festival - the country's largest.  

Labour's Future Fund was the first major policy announcement from the opposition in the long lead up to next year's election. 

Researchers in Australia have discovered that its tropical rainforests have become a net source of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. 

Health officials working on contact tracing measles patients have now identified patient zero on the Cook Strait ferry crossing. 

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has expressed confidence that the Gaza ceasefire will hold. 

Earlier this week destructive gales tore through parts of the South and North Islands, exacerbating wildfires on the East Coast. 

A state of emergency remains in place in Southland and Clutha due to extensive damage caused by Thursday's red-alert winds and ongoing power outages. 

Patrick Ryan's debut novel is a multi-generational saga that's been described as a dazzling portrait of the human spirit.

Sean Szeps, an American father of two living in Australia, uses his Instagram platform to show, as he says, 'the raw realities of parenthood with a wink.' 

Charities around the country have been reporting increasing levels of families in poverty with no signs of it slowing down. 

There are movie buffs - and then there is Col Needham. As founder of Internet Movie Database IMDb, Col says he has watched more than 16,000 films.

Simon Mills, a world leading expert in herbal medicine has led the movement to bring herbal remedies into mainstream healthcare. 

What is mana? Are you born with it, can you earn it and can you have it taken away? Indigenous rights activist Tame Iti explores what mana really means in his memoir Mana. 

A group of Kiwi researchers have held a spider olympics to find out how much of a competitive advantage introduced False katipō have over our native katipō. 

The sister of missing Omaio man Jason Butler is speaking out after news there has been an arrest in his disappearance.