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The grand dame of Australian publishing, Ita Buttrose was the founding editor of Cleo magazine which in the 70's shocked many an even not so prudish soul with its content aimed at a primarily female… Audio

Dr McLellan is the former Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under the Obama administration. He's currently Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, and Director, Penn… Audio

Neville Cohen is one of the people behind those mind boggling questions on shows like University Challenge. He is a Mastermind record holder in the UK, and also appeared on the Krypton factor before… Audio

An artist who works in mostly in paint, but also does sculpture, pottery design, lithograph, woodcut and glass, Fatu Feu'u has been mentor to many Pacific artists, and is one of those exhibiting at… Audio

Leading historical writer Kate Grenville. Winner of the Orange prize for fiction a decade ago, for her book The Idea of Perfection and of the Commonwealth writer's prize for the novel she best known… Audio

Glen has recently resigned from his job as community constable in the Auckland suburb of Mt Roskill to work as a volunteer helping at-risk kids. Audio

From marauding bulls to charging rams, poisoned ponies and incorrigible owners - two country vets, Peter Anderson and Peter Jerram share yarns from more than 3 decades in practice in Marlborough. Audio

Southern right whales are making a comeback in the Auckland Islands, which means we could see them return to NZ coastal waters after being hunted to near-extinction... but are we ready for their… Audio

A US scholar from the Strauss Institute for Conflict Resolution, a visiting professor at the Pepperdine University School of Law, and a past president of the Academy of Family Mediators. Audio

Her dozen or so novel's draw on her first-hand experience of hospital emergency and autopsy rooms. Audio

The Trinidad-born Port Authority temp was trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center for 27 hours after the North Tower fell on her as she was trying to escape the building in the wake of the… Audio

Glenn Carle was employed in the Clandestine Services of the CIA for 23 years. His memoir The Interrogator details his involvement in the case of a supposed al Qaeda captive who was secretly… Audio

Laurence Fearnley's winning novel The Hut Builder, tells the story of a budding poet and mountain climber, Boden Black, his 1950s adolescence in the Mackenzie Basin and his association with… Audio

An Anglican minister who 30 years ago was a key figure in the anti-springbok tour rallies. Prior to that he began the Peace Squadron, a flotilla of boats which would take to the water in protest at… Audio

Joe Alves is the man behind the Great White Shark that terrified audiences more than 30 years ago. As the production designer for Jaws - he designed the mechanical shark that menaced the seaside town… Audio

Piera McArthur began painting in earnest during a 1973 coup in Chile that confined her to the NZ diplomatic compound. She and her husband diplomat John McArthur lived in Paris three times, where expat… Audio

A curator of textiles and fashion at the Victoria & Albert museum, specialising in 19th century fashion. She has curated an exhibition called Unveiled: 200 years of wedding dress from the Victoria and… Audio

Olga is a Ukrainian-born research scientist, who left the Ukraine after witnessing firefighters who had battled the Chernobyl nuclear disaster coming into the cancer centre, where she was employed… Audio

Richard is based at the Dunedin School of Medicine and has done an extensive study (for his PhD) in NZ hospices of the spiritual needs of the dying. Audio

Former senior executive at Intel and a venture capitalist for more than 30 years. His latest book Overconnected explains how the internet - and the overconnectivity it gave rise to - played a starring… Audio

American Soprano Elizabeth Futral is in New Zealand for NZ Opera's Cav and Pag. She plays the role of Nedda. Audio

Michael Farmer has travelled to the far reaches of the globe on his hunt for extraterrestrial fragments. He is known as The Meteorite Man. Audio

Director of the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Victoria University, Charles Daugherty speaks to the programme about the… Audio

Rick Stein has written some 11 cookery books and recorded numerous cookery series. The latest saw him head out around Spain and it's about to air over here. Audio

Professor Caroline Saunders, Professor of Trade and Environmental Economics, and Director of the Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit at Lincoln University. Audio