The Good Word: Tuesday, 12 April at 9.05pm

The Good Word airs a first screening on Tuesdays at 9.05pm and is replayed on Fridays at 9.30pm on TVNZ7.

Host Emily Perkins and panellists Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Bill Hastings and Carol Hirschfeld review book of the week Me’a Kai: The Food and Flavours of the South Pacific, by Robert Oliver.

Labour MP Jacinda Ardern talks about her favourite book.

Writer Tessa Duder reveals her working secrets.

Finlay Macdonald tells the story behind a lost classic, South Seas Vagabond.