SPECIAL GUEST:  Gavin Rossdale

Bush's new album is out now - Black and White Rainbows

Francesca Rudkin: Movies

Oscar nominated Loving - based on a true story.

Francesca's verdict: 4 out of 5

Crime drama Trespass Against Us featuring Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson 

Francesca's verdict: 3 out of 5

NICI WICKES: Food

This week we’re celebrating some of NZ's award winning cheeses, announced this week at the NZ Champions of Cheese Awards.  The recipe for Leek, Pear and Cheese flatbreads is on our website.

For more inspiration visit her website or her Facebook page.

LYNDA HALLINAN: Gardening

I'm in Hawarden in North Canterbury for the 111th annual A&P Show: sheep, cattle, horses, the famous terrier race, prize-winning flowers & preserves and some truly beautiful produce, from perfect quinces, pears, potatoes, Scarlet Runner beans and shiny onions (the trick for the show table is to peel off the dull outer skins) to marrows big enough to star in The Flintstones as prehistoric clubs.

I'm here in the Our Fare area, showing how anyone can make their own prize winning preserves, even in a plastic pop-up marquee! I'll be bottling Black Doris plums and apricots, and making Blackberry & Amaretto Jam. 

It's a peculiar quirk of growing your own food that, when you first start out, you want to grow a little bit of everything, and the more unusual the better. Things I've tried (with varying degrees of success) include pomegranates (waste of time), purple sprouting broccoli, earth gems, peans, tomatillos, mustard greens etc. But mostly we just eat potatoes, carrots and beans. 

It's true of all gardens that there's really no point growing it if you don't want to eat it (I'm talking about you kale), so keep that in mind this autumn when you're planting your vegetable garden for winter and spring. 

Reliable crops to get going now - if you like them - include silverbeet, spinach, all brassicas, from cabbages to Brussels sprouts, kale to kohlrabi, celery, baby carrots and beets. Transplant leeks and spring onions too.

BOB CAMPBELL: Wine

Best chardonnay's under $20

Modern: Vidal 2016 Reserve Chardonnay, Hawke’s Bay $19.99 (Stockist – 2015 vintage at Glengarry, Auckland $19.99)

Big and buttery: Rapaura Springs Reserve 2016 Reserve Chardonnay, Marlborough $19.99 (Just released. Can buy the excellent 2015 vintage at New World and Pack N’Save for $14.99)

Fruity: Rossendale 2016 Chardonnay, Marlborough $15 - Only 200 cases made. Due for release in April. Will only be sold at the winery and online at www.rossendale.co.nz.

Visit Bob's website with over 22,000 wine reviews! 

MIKE YARDLEY: Travel

Unstripping Sydney's Chippendale - for more tips on checking out Chippendale, Mike's article is on our website.

CATHERINE RAYNES: Books

A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowden, Hachette $25

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne, Penguin $38 

ANDREW DICKENS: Music

Rhiannon Giddens: Freedom Highway 

Andrew's verdict: 9/10

A real stew that could have been written in the 1700s or just yesterday.  Rhiannon combines the contemporary and the traditional in new and organic ways to make a very good record.  Funk, folk, blues, jazz, bluegrass and even rap combine to make as good a civil rights record as you will hear.