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A New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban in November 2008. He was held captive for seven months - during which time the New York Times and other media kept his kidnapping secret. Audio

United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Baroness Amos has had an extraordinary career. She was first black woman appointed to a British… Audio

Expat New Zealand ballet dancer and choreographer who teamed up with designer Karen Walker to create Satisfied with Great Success, a new ballet that is part of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's… Audio

Award-winning physics professor at Cornell University in the US who has just written his first novel, 'Spiral'. The nanoscience-fuelled thriller has been likened to the writing of the late Michael… Audio

Biologist and conservationist who, with his wife Anne Saunders, owns two lodges on the West Coast (Lake Moeraki and Arthurs Pass) where guests do more than just look at the scenery - they actively… Audio

Innovation and commercialization, how to grow a company that will succeed on the international stage. Audio

Kerry McDonald has been the director of the NZ Institute of Economic Research, and the managing director of Comalco NZ and former chair of the BNZ. He chaired the Government's Savings Working Group… Audio

Israel director for the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, who is in charge of Operation Last Chance. He is the author of Operation Last Chance; One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi War Criminals to Justice . Audio

Dick Smith is more than just the founder an electronics retail empire, he is also the founder of Australian Geographic magazine, an adventurer, philanthropist, and now the author of a new book on… Audio

Franki plays the accordian, she makes and performs her own puppets, and is a keen bowler. Most recently she's delved into the world of writing romantic fiction - with a difference. Her latest book is… Audio

Richard Little is an inventor whose brain child is helping transform the lives of some paraplegics. Audio

Acclaimed film director Mike Leigh is known for his unique film-making style - a collaborative approach with his actors, using improvisations developed over a period of weeks to help build the… Audio

Anna Sandiford, a forensic scientist who has worked on high-profile cases including David Bain retrial and Crewe murders. She started private consultancy The Forensic Group in Auckland and is the… Audio

Eric and Wendy Desiles are professional acrobats who first met on a cruiseship. Eric grew up in France, fleeing the family farm to join a circus school when he was twelve. UK-born Wendy trained as a… Audio

John Whitehead is stepping down from one of the most powerful, or at least widely influential, roles in the country - as the head of Treasury. Audio

Tony Mott is a British-born rock n' roll photographer who's snapped pretty well all of them - ACDC, Rolling Stones, Queen, amongst much else. He's spent an awful lot of time backstage, up close and… Audio

Elisabeth Tova Bailey is an American essayist and author of 'The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating' - a meditative and inspiring memoir about how one woman's daily struggle with a serious neurological… Audio

Wil Anderson has won several awards for his comedy including the People's Choice award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival - for the second year in a row. His award winning show The Gruen… Audio

Russell Kerr, the 81-year-old living legend of New Zealand dance, has returned to the Royal New Zealand Ballet to produce 'Petrouchka ' for the company's triple bill season, 'Stravinsky Selection'… Audio

Author of the best-selling series for young adults, The Mortal Instruments. Audio

Michael Quinn - former head chef at the five-star Ritz Hotel in London and one of the UK's first"celebrity chefs". Audio

Ken Morse is the founding Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center and is an advisor to Barack Obama on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and amp; Entrepreneurship. Audio

Sam Martin is a New Zealand landscape designer, known as an exterior architect in the UK, where he's currently living and working. He has just scored a major contract. Audio

Anne Russon is a psychology professor and an expert on orangutans. Some of her findings about the great ape have shed new light on theories about human evolution. For the last 23 years Anne's being… Audio

In 1908 British explorer Ernest Shackleton and his team set out to reach the South Pole but had to turn back, defeated by cold and dwindling food supplies. One hundred years later Henry Worsley, a… Audio