Warning! Sitting next to Sam Johnson may inspire volunteering

Elizabeth Jane will always be the best birthday present I will ever be given.

Life as a pretend vet nurse is not all bucolic bliss.

The Book of Guilt was subject to a bidding war, now it's being billed as a 2025 must-read.

Cosy-cottage novels by forgotten English lady writers are not all roses and foxgloves.

An interview with the very complicated, very funny and very messy Marlon Williams.

It's love at first sight all over again when two sheep return to their paddocks.

"Chickens have not just colonised the world, they have colonised our vernacular."

Ahead of his one-man show arriving in NZ, Michele Hewitson speaks with the UK comedian.

Lush Places has a new cow friend who turns out not to be a cow.

Don’t mention “super-crip” to TV boss Dan Buckingham.

A free lesson: never feed a white dove. We now have more than a dozen.

Miki Magasiva is NZ entertainment's newest Magasiva talent.

'You can get awfully attached to an old, manky-looking sheep with a bad case of spots.'

The big hair and sequins is a persona calculated to send a clear message to the industry.

Badly behaved sheep may be a reflection of their owners.

An untimely operation meant Christmas at Lush Places was slightly different.

Michele Hewitson talks Brexit, books, parties & philandering with Boris Johnson.

I can go on pretending to be a farmer by reading books about farmers.

"My family are not very good at being white-collar crooks. They always get caught."

Gretchen Albrecht knew at age 12 she wanted to be an artist; at 81, she’s ‘still here'.

We here at Lush Places pretend to be real farmers, so we wear Red Bands.

Television seemed like magic to Diana Wichtel, one of our greatest TV reviewers.

Lambing is over and calm is restored to the paddocks of Lush Places.

The Hewitson Profile: How rowing great won the Tauranga mayoralty as an outsider.

My latest money-spinning idea for Lush Places is to write a series of children’s books.

Moses Mackay on the heights of Italian opera, divas, and "toxic" reality tv shows.

Cobwebs, quinces, and kitten chaos make for memorial mornings.

"Sometimes I look at a recipe for croissants. Then I have a lie-down."

By the time you read this, we may have a government. Or we may not. Who knows?

"She knows she looks odd but she doesn’t care. And there is nobody to look at her."

"She and Miles had concocted a top-secret plan to smuggle her into our paddock."

"He only bothered with a byline when there was a chance of winning another media award."

"It was an ignominious way for a lifelong Conservative to go: death by leftie."

Weirdly, I love boxes. You can hide all manner of things in boxes.

He’s not in the game to be liked. He’s in the game simply to be in the game.

Hapless voters are left counting the days until October 14.

Politicians are behaving as if they’ve won lead roles in a local amateur dramatics show.

With less than a month until the country votes, Listener views the incumbent leaders.

“Out of touch. Too much risk.” Ouch. Not really. The CTU needs to get snappier slogans.

I couldn’t believe I was making a doctor’s appointment for getting knocked down by a ram.

At least a meeting of what may loosely be called minds would be a non-partisan pick’n’mix.

When it comes to election-year tough-on-crime policies, the Nats are repeat offenders.

Fresh releases exploring a range from an intrepid girl gang to 1970s civil rights.