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  • Paddy Gower interviews Melanie Lynskey about her new movie - Pike River

    Paddy Gower interviews Melanie Lynskey about her new movie - Pike River
    Oct 30 2025
    Melanie Lynskey talks about being from New Plymouth, being a regular Kiwi mum in Hollywood, and her hopes that her new movie - Pike River - can help bring justice for the Pike River families.
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    19 min
  • Paddy Gower interviews Robyn Malcolm about her new movie - Pike River

    Paddy Gower interviews Robyn Malcolm about her new movie - Pike River
    Oct 30 2025
    Robyn Malcolm is furious over Pike River inaction, and the lack of accountability. She hopes her new movie, Pike River, can help bring justice for the Pike River families.
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    19 min
  • The Kiwi scientist behind ‘female Viagra’

    The Kiwi scientist behind ‘female Viagra’
    Aug 6 2025
    Dr Iona Weir is the brains behind Myregyna - a natural, non-hormonal ‘female Viagra’. This groundbreaking Kiwi innovation is set to transform sex and health for post-menopausal women worldwide. Plus: Told he’d lose basic mobility without urgent surgery, Blair Waldrom speaks to Paddy Gower about the brutal costs, the system’s failings, and why he’s been forced to seek treatment in Australia.
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    25 min
  • Inside the unsettling world of devotism

    Inside the unsettling world of devotism
    Jul 30 2025
    This week, we meet cousins Sophia Malthus - a wheelchair user since a riding accident - and Indy Henman, two incredible Kiwis sharing their life, laughter and challenges in a powerful new RNZ docuseries. They introduce us to the confronting world of devotism - where some people are sexually attracted to disability itself. Then: meet Cam Reid, aka Divorced Dad 83. Love technician, unlikely online sensation, and possibly a genius (or not). Either way, you heard him here first. Plus: wind turbines - sexy or not? Donald Trump says no. Paddy says absolutely yes.
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    26 min
  • Laurence Pithie: The Kiwi battling through the Tour de France

    Laurence Pithie: The Kiwi battling through the Tour de France
    Jul 23 2025
    Paddy chats to Kiwi cycling sensation Laurence Pithie, the only New Zealander riding in this year’s Tour de France. From brutal crashes to bottle runs and team tactics, Laurence shares what it’s really like inside the world’s most gruelling race - and how he’s chasing a childhood dream. Also, meet “Leonardo da Pinchy” - the North Shore cat who’s stolen more than 150 items of clothing (yes, mostly undies) - and his owner, Helen, who’s doing her best to return the loot. And in How Good, Paddy relives the seven seconds of footy magic from Warriors rookie Leka Halasima – along with 11 facts about the rising star dubbed a “relaxed freak”. Positivity, chaos, cats and cycling - it’s all here.
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    29 min
  • The woman who's delivered 19 babies by phone

    The woman who's delivered 19 babies by phone
    Jul 16 2025
    Paddy meets Gemma Cale, whose nickname is "baby magnet". Gemma works as a call-taker at Hato Hone St John, dispatching ambulances to deliver urgent assistance. But sometimes she ends up delivering - talking parents through births when the ambulance just won't make it before baby. And Sir Ian Taylor beams in to address the furore caused by his "Dear Jacinda" letter, doubling down on his criticism of the former PM's wider record and arguing that politicians are the worst people to handle pandemic responses.
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    24 min
  • 'Drinking led to some terrible things': Matt Chisholm on the positive power of honesty

    'Drinking led to some terrible things': Matt Chisholm on the positive power of honesty
    Jul 9 2025
    As a prime time TV host, he looked like he was living the dream. But Matt Chisholm's relationship with booze, drugs and sex workers meant there were times he didn't even want to be alive. Matt tells Paddy he's got no qualms talking to his kids about his past but says that openness will probably thwart any political ambitions! Plus, the 12-year-old chess prodigy hoping a trip to Kazakhstan is the next stop on his way to becoming a Grandmaster and the world's best player. And Paddy reflects on Sir Ian Taylor tapping into public sentiment about Dame Jacinda Ardern - and why the former PM should front at the Covid inquiry. For free 24-hour help with mental health, call or text 1737.
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    25 min
  • From sporting "embarrassment" to global fame

    From sporting "embarrassment" to global fame
    Jul 2 2025
    Paddy meets stars of the Auckland City team who made international headlines at the FIFA Club World Cup, investigates the “ridiculous” delays in Pharmac funding a groundbreaking new treatment and explains why he wants more billionaires.
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    27 min