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Star Wars fan and Hollywood Screenwriter Gary Whitta says every generation has a different Star Wars trilogy. So when he was asked to write Rogue One he felt enormous pressure to do the series justice.

Gary Whitta talks about Star Wars and answers listeners’ questions.

Renowned British broadcaster Noel Edmonds has now made New Zealand his home. On Bookmarks with Jesse Mulligan he shares some of his favourite books, movies and music and talks about a community project he's set up here in Aotearoa.

If watching beloved sitcoms like The Office, Parks and Recreation or The Good Place has helped you pass the time in level 4 lock down, you can thank TV creator, writer and director Michael Schur. We talk to Michael Schur about philosophy as comedy and humour in the era of Covid-19.

Butterflies are not only beautiful and remarkably diverse, they're also an integral part of the ecosystem, says Dr Leilani Walker from the Auckland Museum. Variety between butterflies is huge as they've had 120 million years of evolution and adaptation to many different environments around the world, Walker says.

Avid board-rider and photographer Derek Morrison's book Surf Dreams takes us through the country's popular and most remote surfing communities with tales of the personalities who ride the waves.

Kathryn Ryan meets William Close, the inventor of the musical and engineering wonder The Earth Harp.

It's an instrument with a sound that is part string part environment, with strings that can be over 300 metres long, the length of 6 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Coral Trimmer started playing the harmonica 85 years ago. The 90-year-old has played music in bordellos in London, to soldiers in the Middle East. Coral joins Kathryn Ryan to tell her about growing up alongside her brother, ballet dancer Sir Jon Trimmer, her love affair with a war heroine, and decades of playing music around the world.

Kiwi filmmaker Sally Williams celebrates the stellar 67-year long career of the remarkable New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson in the biopic, Stevenson: Lost and Found (US/NZ). Williams creates an unexpectedly moving portrait that unearths the life, struggles and humour of an artist and his truly dazzling volume of work.

In 2014, top chef Martin Bosley called the liquidators in on his fine dining seafood restaurant at Port Nicholson Yacht Club on the Wellington waterfront and set about reinventing himself. He's takes some time out to chat to Jesse Mulligan about the movies, books, songs and podcasts he loves.

Jason Gunn has been on the airwaves for more than 30 years and is best known for hosting hit TV programmes like McDonalds Young Entertainers .

He joined Jesse Mulligan to talk about the event that would shift his perspective on life, the rewards of storytelling and treated listeners to a few impressions.33