Morgan Godfery hosts an evening with Māori Party Co-Leader/Te Tai Hauāuru Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (Ngati Ruanui, Nga Ruahine, Nga Rauru, Irish).

How do you decide where to put your vote? In a climate of sensational political personalities how do we ensure that policy comes to the fore? Or should we vote based on personality?

Media and Politics: Episode One of our six-part Politics in Pubs series. Featuring Andrea Vance, Neale Jones and Danyl Mclauchlan.

Behrouz Boochani in conversation with Lloyd Jones.

Sit back and listen to authors reading their own prose.

Listening to poetry from eight wonderful Aotearoa poets. Put in your ear buds, or crank up the volume, and enjoy!

Enjoy a conversation between Verb Director Claire Mabey and Artist Bridget Reweti about art and nature, the artist’s relationship with it.

UK writer Val McDermid (How the Dead Speak) joins three of Aotearoa’s finest crime and thriller writers: Charity Norman (See you in September) Renée (The Wild Card) and Alix Bosco (Greg McGee, Slaughter Falls).

Please note: unfortunately the first few minutes of this session weren’t recorded.

Noelle McCarthy (RNZ) talks with celebrated UK novelist Sarah Moss at Verb Wellington, 2019

Clinical Psychologist Dr Natalie Flynn wrote the book she always wanted to read. After seeing patient after patient stressed out by screeds of conflicting information on parenting, she waded through all of the claims around breast feeding, sleep training, day care, and myriad other decisions parents have to make.

The result is the book Smart Mothering. Dr Flynn talks with RNZ’s Caitlin Cherry about sorting through the BS to help others make science-based decisions about caring for babies.

Val McDermid joins RNZ’s Noelle McCarthy for a chat about her latest books. From Verb Festival 2019.