Labour Day Podcast Options

9:07 AM.Expert in modern medical history undertaking the first major academic study of facial hair. Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Food sharing social media site set up in Wellington which is taking off around the country. Audio

8:30 AM.The BBC's North America Technology correspondent who has a grandstand view of the hot bed of innovation that is Silicon Valley. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Swiss futurist who is among many experts warning that machines are taking over our jobs. Audio

11:06 AM.Triple J content director Ollie Wards picks some tunes from New Zealanders (and a few Australians) doing well across the ditch. Read more Audio

10:38 AM.New Zealand is facing a housing crisis, but one solution could be to build and live in tiny homes. Andrew Morrison explains thinking big on keeping it small. Read more Audio

10:07 AM.The magazine is celebrating 25 years by looking forward another 25 to the big issues. Editor James Frankham on why we are not 100% pure. Audio

9:45 AM.What if you were able to take as many days off work as you feel you need - or deserve? Mark Gilbert analyses what Richard Branson's suggestion might mean. Audio

9:31 AM.Which country was the largest exporter of wine in 1960? We have the answer. Audio

9:30 AM.Author of "Socialism is Great!" Lijia Zhang has written about her own experience of working in a rocket factory back in the days of China under Chairman Mao - right through to today's fast growing… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Is giving up your job to help human-kind the right thing to do? Kiwi journalist Kim Vinnell did just that. Audio

8:50 AM.The All Blacks take on USA next weekend. Will this one-off game be a watershed moment for rugby in the US or might some Americans actually resent the intrusion of this foreign version of their own… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.This year there's been tensions in the Ukrane, IS has become more prominent and Ebola is spreading. But according to journalist Simon Kuper the world is in fact getting safer. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Wellington folk musician Peter Dyer on the life and legacy of the "father of folk" Pete Seeger. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Musician and academic Dr. Graeme Downes talks to Richard Langston about the legacy and influence of Lou Reed. Audio

11:10 AM.Eighty-six-year-old Irish poet Richard Murphy joins us from Sri Lanka, to reminisce about his time with friend, and fellow poet Seamus Heaney who recently passed away. We celebrate Heaney's… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Political satire online newspaper "The Civilian" is only 7 months old, but it has quickly gained a reputation as being the place to go for the big news stories. Headlines like "We didn't want the… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Investigative journalist James Bamford started researching the little know US government department known as the National Security Agency in 1982. Since then he's written three books on the… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Auckland Astronomer Jennie McCormick is fascinated by space. She has co-discovered 20 planets, solar systems and an asteroid, which she'll get to name. She's even built her own observatory and spends… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.At the peak of his career former Test cricketer Iain O'Brien was a formidable force with the ball for New Zealand. But while it all seemed good on the outside, he was battling depression on the… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Bryce was recently named the best actor at the LA Comedy Film festival for his star performance in the tongue-in-cheek film 'Edwin: My Life as a Koont', which even had a cameo from Wellington Mayor… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.She wanted to be the country's first female prime minister, but while that didn't quite happen, she did become the first woman to lead the Combined Trade Unions. So what does the person who champions… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Gregory Clark is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis and has researched the historic link between surnames and social mobility. Audio

11:25 AM.Jing Gao is a US-based Chinese citizen and is the Editor in Chief and founder of Ministry of Tofu, a blog whose focus is on the happenings in her native China. Audio

11:05 AM.George (Jiri) Havlik hails from the Czech Republic and is head chocolatier and owner of Bohemein Fresh Chocolates. Audio