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Daring and death-defying: The only living lady parachutist's tour of NZ

"She was unconventional, doing something considered exceptional even for a man to do."

How an existential psychotherapist changed my life

"I became aware I was living based on choices I had made many years earlier."

Taonga: Mara TK on his kōauau, a traditional bone flute

The musician on receiving his most treasured possession and what it means for his future.

Going for gold - top Olympic-themed movies

Distract yourself with some landmarks in Olympic-related cinema.

The family link behind the new Bounty book

Fletcher Christian's great (x6) grandson has written a book re-examining the Bounty story.

We Are Lady Parts: This is not a comedy about Muslim women

New comedy about a Muslim punk band changes the game by not changing a thing.

'Psychedelics became a door in the wall, a way to go somewhere without having to go to the airport'

Michael Pollan on taking a more enlightened approach to drugs.

'Some books you gobble up, others you need to spend time with'

What crime author Anne Harré has in her to-read pile

'I had crossed a bomb-site of rubble and craters and collapsing cliffs left by vanished ice'

'The higher I climbed, the more the southerly intensified. It shoved me in the face.'

Why is this movie about books causing complicated feelings?

Greg and Zanna investigate their feelings over a deeply unfunny movie starring a comedian.

Becky Kuek: 'We all lost our minds, singing every single lyric'

TV creator Becky Kuek picks the five bangers that mean the most to her.

Greg Bruce: The shameful truth about my reading habits

I like to read - I really do - but do I really?

Greg Fleming talks to four exciting new local crime authors

Characters and thrills aplenty in new crime writing

'For the first time winter becomes too much'

'You want to be like Elsa from Frozen, creating ice-palaces with a flick of her hands.'

'Boy, this got deep' - R.E.M's Michael Stipe on art, politics and sexuality

Karl Puschmann chats to the former frontman about his new lockdown inspired book.

On talking about writing

Steve Braunias on walking and talking