Easter Monday Podcast Options

8:50 AM.Beyond the Bin creator Kim Renshaw on how an almost-zero waste recycling effort at Mount Maunganui's Gourmet Night Market is making its mark on even larger events around the country. Cleaner events… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:34 AM.The 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising celebrates the courage and ideals that characterised the events and people of 1916. Historian Diarmaid Ferriter reflects on the history and national identity… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Dame Patsy Reddy will take over from Lt Gen The Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae as Governor General in August. With 5 months left to run on his tenure Sir Jerry Mataparae shares some highlights of his time… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:45 AM.Prize winning pastry chef and cake decorator, judge on the first series of New Zealand's "Hottest Home Baker" Pauline Nunns uses up any left-over Easter chocolate with her go-to Chocolate Mud Cake… Read more Audio

11:28 AM.Award winning Canadian Southern roots and blues artist fresh from the Canterbury Folk Festival, Joel Fafard performs live ahead of the rest of his Kiwi tour. Audio

11:06 AM.Cantabrian Tanya Humphreys has lived her whole life with Tourette's syndrome with very little support in dealing with it. She has physical and verbal tics, and talks frankly about the challenges of… Read more Audio

10:36 AM.Lily Duval has built her own house in keeping with Tiny House movement. Built on a trailer, she did all the work herself, despite never having attempted a building project before. Lily shows Katy… Read more Audio

10:25 AM.Life coach Maureen Richardson reports an increasing number of people are coming to her for help with anxiety and depression, often linked to loneliness. But are we just too busy to make new friends? Audio

10:10 AM.Professor in Secular Studies at Pitzer College Phil Zuckerman on how "no religion" is becoming the fastest-growing new religion. His book Living the Secular Life: new answers to old questions explores… Read more Audio

9:39 AM.Vi Cottrell never expected she'd end up running a chocolate factory. But in the 1970s she and her husband, Richard, left a comfortable existence in Christchurch, believing there must be more… Read more Audio

9:23 AM.British author James Wallman with an alternative perspective on consumerism and de-cluttering: memories live longer than things. Cultural forecaster James Wallman's Stuffocation is inspired in part by… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.It's been a year since the police announced new measures to get more women into the force. One of those measures was a reality tv show, "Women In Blue", that followed seven female police officers on… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Schoc Chocolates' Murray Langham reckons what you do with the foil reveals a lot about you. He also tells of the nutritional benefits of chocolate on a public holiday when there's plenty of it around.

8:40 AM.Santa Clara high school student Shubham Banerjee has reinvented the Braille printer thanks to his love of Lego. His start-up company BRAIGO has attracted funding from Intel, but as Shubham is only 13… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.WASH specialist and humanitarian Hanna Taylor brings clean water and sanitation to refugee camps in conflict and disaster zones around the world. Just back from an Ebola treatment camp in Sierra Leone… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Spectrum's Alwyn Owen pays tribute to some of our worst - and funniest - New Zealand verse. Audio

11:50 AM.Laurent Loudeac is the executive chef for Hippopotamus Restaurant at the Museum Art Hotel, Wellington. He's in the studio to save you from a weekend-long Easter egg-only diet, with some recipes you… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Killer whale researcher Jodi Smith has recently crowdsourced the funding needed for a project that will create real-time mapping and tracking of endangered pods of orcas. Jodi, who's based in… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Corruption and the demand for bribes has infiltrated every aspect of Indian life, and is widening the gap between the country's rich, and the middle-class and poor. Campaigner Vijay Anand founded his… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Scottish Indian comedian Danny Bhoy has built up a huge following in New Zealand and Australia. He discusses his career telling funny stories, why kiwis get his Scottish humour, and his experiences… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.New York Times columnist, former college dean, and public intellectual Stanley Fish once wrote a book called 'Save the World On Your Own Time', imploring university lecturers to stop trying to create… Read more Audio

9:42 AM.Canadian journalist Stephanie Nolen spent years travelling through Africa, conducting the interviews and meticulous research laid out in her book, '28 Stories of AIDS in Africa'. For those in the West… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.One of New Zealand's most loved writers for young adults, Tessa Duder, talks about her best-known work, The Alex Quartet, ahead of a 20th anniversary screening of the Alex film, by the Michael King… Read more Audio

8:33 AM.Wellington musician Lost Bird - known by day as Ali Whitton - comes into the studio for a laid-back acoustic set and a chat about leaving the whirlwind of London for a life in the New Zealand… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.British comedian Tom Binns isn't actually a spirit medium - his character, Ian D. Montfort is. But he's gotten so good at the act that audiences believe he's concealing a true psychic gift. Ian… Read more Audio