Pandemic

Redundancy, a huge mortgage and Covid all pushed Kate Halfpenny and husband Chris to move to a smaller, coastal area. Expecting fun and sun, they wound up having to face Chris' alcoholism head on. Audio

New Kiwi film Workmates is about two friends trying to keep a struggling theatre alive - how the real life couple behind it had Covid to thank for its creation

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Jono Walker, chair of Farmers' Markets New Zealand, is Country Life's guest this week. He's been in Rome mingling with other farmers' market representatives from around the world. Audio

The pandemic smashed the international education sector - but are foreign students returning to our shores? Audio

Many of us will be taking to the skies this week in the pre-Christmas rush - but there's been added pressure on airlines in the leadup to it. The aviation industry has struggled with the scale-up… Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

Summer has arrived, but with our restrictions largely kicked to the curb and a soup of different variants at play, what can we expect from Covid-19 case numbers? Audio

Doctors are always in a race against time and the fear of harming a patient never really goes away, says Izzy Lomax-Sawyers. In the new book Vital Signs, she chronicles her first year as a junior… Audio

Danielle says candidates are shunning debates this year: It was once a given that candidates, especially those seeking statewide office in a midterm election year - would face off with their main… Audio

University of Canterbury epidemiolgist Associate Professor Arindam Basu says it's crucial to combine disease surveillance and climate modelling to pre-empt future pandemics. In the last three years… Audio

In the digital age and the Covid era, how do you get people out to a play? Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio