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Founder of influential independent NZ music label Flying Nun. He started it in Christchurch in 1981 and it was home to legendary acts such as The 3Ds, The Clean, The Chills, and Straitjacket Fits. It… Audio

Nick Danziger has travelled the world taking photographs and making documentary films, and has become one of the world's most renowned photojournalists. His latest project Mana: Inside the All Blacks… Audio

Miriam Frank is an author, Holocaust survivor and Otago University educated doctor. Audio

John Lloyd is the television producer behind many shows, including Blackadder, and the satirical current affairs show Spitting Image. The Stephen Fry hosted programme, QI, which stands for Quite… Audio

Nicolle Wallace is a New York-based writer and political commentator. She previously served as communications chief during the presidency of George W. Bush and in his 2004 re-election campaign. In… Audio

US author and film critic, who writes for the satrical news organisation The Onion. He devoted a year of his life watching the worst Hollywood films ever made - and takes great pleasure in… Audio

The best-selling author's latest book is called 'Fall of Giants'. He wrote 'Pillars of the Earth', which sold 20 million copies worldwide, and in total his titles have sold 130 million worldwide. Audio

Rio Hemopo is involved with bands such as Fat Freddy's Drop and Trinity Roots. He is also one of the subjects of the documentary Hiding Behind the Green Screen about the impact of cannabis on young… Audio

Best selling science writer Steven Johnson asks us to rethink our ideas on innovation - he argues that good ideas are not bolts from the blue but come from hunches, mulling things over and a good dose… Audio

Professor Bedford is the Director of the Population Studies Centre at Waikato University. He has recently been awarded the Dame Joan Metge medal after forty years of study into Pacific migration. Audio

Tony Fitzjohn is a conservationist who for 30 years has successfully rehabilitated zoo animals into the wild, and gained National Park status for two game reserves. He worked extensively with - and… Audio

Author, psychotherapist, philosopher, inter-faith Minister and feminist Stephanie Dowrick tells us what shaped her. Audio

David Helfgott, who does not do interviews, is about to start a new tour in NZ. His wife Gillian Helfgott talks about David and their life together. Audio

Simon Holdaway is Professor of Archaeology and Head of Department for Anthropology at the University of Auckland. He's led archaeological research projects all over the world, including Australia and… Audio

Jock has just written a book about his dad, TP McLean, who was the famed New Zealand journalist and sports writer. Audio

The phenomenon of deception with numbers - author and professor of journalism at New York University, Charles Seife tells us why the public is so often bamboozled by dodgy statistics and bad maths. Audio

The phenomenon of deception with numbers - author and professor of journalism at New York University, Charles Seife tells us why the public is so often bamboozled by dodgy statistics and bad maths. Audio

Leah Chishugi was left for dead under a pile of corpses during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda but managed to escape with her son to Uganda and eventually to South Africa, where she was miraculously… Audio

Dr Karen Stockin is a Lecturer in Marine Ecology in the Coastal-Marine Research Group, Institute of Natural Sciences, Massey University. Her research focus is marine mammals and their interactions… Audio

Deepak Lal is a Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, University College London, and the James S Coleman Professor of International Development Studies at the University of California. He was a… Audio

Chris Ryan is the pen name of a best-selling British suspense novelist and former SAS operative. During the Gulf War, he was only person out of eight in his command to escape enemy forces in Iraq and… Audio

Founder of Gibbston Valley Wines. The former Irish journalist planted pinot noir grapes in Central Otago in the late 1970s despite being told of the difficulties he would face. Alan Brady has just… Audio

The American missionary spent four years undercover on the North Korea-China border helping North Korean refugees, including escorting some along a modern-day underground railway across China to a… Audio

The American chef and food writer's whirlwind love affair in Venice and subsequent move to Italy inspired her memoir A Thousand Days in Venice. Audio

The Aboriginal leader, activist and writer has been described as one of Australia's most influential thinkers and commentators on indigenous affairs. He was one of the founders of the Cape York Land… Audio