King’s Birthday Monday with Anna Thomas Podcast Options

10:30 AM.Karen Price and Karen Stade's book Pasta, Prayer and Promise, the story of Nelson's Italian Community 1860-2014 explores the history and the people of 'The Wood'. They describe countless hours… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.What is it like moving back to New Zealand after decades living abroad? Award-winning author Paula Morris's new book 'On Coming Home' asks where, "where do you truly belong?" Audio

9:45 AM.Wellington food blogger on preserving your own lemons. Laura also shares a recipe for Feta and Preserved Lemon Dip with Sesame Seeds. Audio

9:30 AM.Psychologist Anna Patience talks about the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a model for treating anxiety, a condition up to a quarter of us may have to deal with in our lives. Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Documentary filmmaker Crystal Moselle discusses her prize-winning film 'The Wolfpack', documenting the progress of seven children who emerge from a Lower East Side apartment having been confined there… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Sports administrator extraordinaire and business management trail blazer recognised in today's Honour List for her contributions in these traditionally male dominated fields. Audio

8:30 AM.Ex-pat Kiwi Rob Knight looks at allergies, obesity and acne - conditions that may be caused, and someday cured, by the microscopic life inside us. His TED book 'Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.A quarter of the world's population could be living in slums by the end of this century. Jean-Nicolas Orhon has travelled slums in our four continents for his documentary 'Slums: Cities of the… Read more Video, Audio

11:30 AM.From 1970's London, punk spread around the UK, Europe, the US, and eventually, to New Zealand. Nick Swan is a founding member of political punk groups Life in the Fridge Exists and Riot 111 and John… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Queen's Birthday has been the long weekend of choice for punk rock to congegrate for a bit of anti-establishment action. Some saw the punks as the outcasts of society, while others feel it was the… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.English journalist Tim Vickery lived in Rio De Janiero. He tells us about how much the World Cup means to the country, how it influences society and politics, and which player could be Brazil's public… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.The football World Cup's about to start and the Rio de Janeiro Olympics are just two years away. The spotlight's on Brazil like never before - and it's not all samba, sun, carnival and the Copocabana… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Zac is the writer of two financial and self-help books and at 24 (and barely of out college) he released his third Good Advice from Bad People; Selected Wisdom from Murderers, Stock Swindlers, and… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Best-selling author Amy Dickinson's Ask Amy advice column is syndicated in more than 150 papers an estimated 22 million people pore over her advice to desperate correspondents. So no pressure, then… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.A look back at how writer James Frey wrote a top-selling memoir which captured America's readers and even captivated Oprah Winfrey. But his tale turned out to be more fiction than fact. Audio

8:40 AM.Last month the US was rocked by a racist outburst from billionaire basketball businessman Donald Sterling. What happened next? One month on, San Francisco radio host Brian Murphy updates us on that… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Is Queen's Birthday a doomed holiday? If so, it wouldn't be the first time that days marking our ties to Britain have vanished from the calendar. Massey University history professor Peter Lineham… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Two of New Zealand's most celebrated contemporary dancers and artistic directors of Okareka Dance Company, Taiaroa Royal and Taane Mete, tell some of the personal stories that make up their new… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Author Maureen Johnson writes young adult fiction - among her works are novel The Key to the Golden Firebird, and the Shades of London series. She's calling for an end to gender-specific book covers… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.John Campbell has been awarded a Queen's Service Medal for services to pipe bands and the community. He has been involved in the Mackenzie Highland Pipe Band for more than 50 years, 29 of those as… Read more Audio

10:12 AM.Dr David Stuckler, political economist at Oxford University, discusses his dramatic new book, The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills, released in New Zealand in July. Co-written with Dr Sanjay Basu… Read more Audio

9:48 AM.Clare Mouat has been awarded a Queen's Service Medal for services to mental health. She has been the secretary of Schizophrenia Fellowship Canterbury since 2000, and has contributed countless hours as… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Canadian Paul Nicklen is one of the world's top wildlife photographers, traversing the world's polar regions on assignment for National Geographic. Paul's ability to to work under extreme weather… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Tearepa Kahi wrote and directed the Kiwi film Mt Zion, which stars Stan Walker and Temuera Morrison and mixes a love of whanau, spud-picking, and Bob Marley. Ahead of the film's release on DVD… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Sunder Katwala, director of the think tank British Future, discusses the fall-out from the brutal killing of a soldier in the Woolwich district of London. The attack on May 22 and its aftermath -… Read more Audio