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Dr Hamburg is president emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York. A medical doctor, he has a long history of leadership in the research, medical and psychiatric fields. He has been Professor at… Audio

Gay rights activist, professor and author of the new book The End of the Homosexual? which looks at the changing queer world over the past 40 years and links it to larger social, political and… Audio

Why do circuses and circus folk keep 'coming to town' when challenges to their very existence continue to mount up? With Professor Ron Beadle, director of Research Ethics at Northumbria University. Audio

Penny Jackson is the director of the Tauranga Art Gallery and a NZ art crime expert. She is also the author of Edward Bullmore: A Surrealist Odyssey, The Brown Years: Nigel Brown and the… Audio

Brene Brown is an American scholar, author, and public speaker, who is currently a research professor of Social Work at the University of Houston. She has spent the past decade studying vulnerability… Audio

Oliver Preston was a former high powered bond trader with Lehman Brother's in London. He lost his job, and decided to completely change his life and become a cartoonist. He has been Chairman of The… Audio

Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide. Alan's a former Wellingtonian who is leading groundbreaking research which uses ancient DNA to record and study… Audio

Marian Salzman is an author or co-author of 14 books and an award-winning blogger. She was the keynote speaker for a Communication Agencies Association of New Zealand forum on 3 July. Audio

Saroo was lost in India as a five year old, falling asleep on a train which took him across the country to Calcutta. He lived on the streets, before being adopted by a Tasmanian couple… Audio

Graham le Gros, the Director of the Malaghan Institute, and Asthma & Allergic Diseases Research Group Leader, on the groundbreaking research into a cancer vaccine, and why using the body's own immune… Audio

Professional snowboarder Kevin Pearce is the subject of the documentary, The Crash Reel, which tells the story of his recovery and comeback from a traumatic brain injury. The Crash Reel, directed by… Audio

Science writer John Gribbin's latest book explains the implications of quantum computers. Audio

Eliminating pollutants from our waterways and identifying toxic effluent is very much part of his day job - and in his spare time he performs magic. Audio

Professor Richard Faull is the director of the Centre for Brain Research at the University of Auckland. He discusses his groundbreaking research into neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's… Audio

Jim and Heather Wilson, and their two young sons, had lived in Wellington for 18-months, but decided to sail home to the US, a journey that took them over a year. From New Zealand they sailed through… Audio

Nelson based poet, whose work about her childhood in war torn Budapest have inspired a symphony to be performed by the Auckland Philharmonia. Audio

Manos Nathan, one of NZ's leading ceramic artists,is part of an upcoming exhibition at Pataka museum in Porirua called Uku Rere: Maori ceramic artists. Audio, Gallery

NZ born and educated; Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and has written about gender history, working-class culture, war and masculinity, the cultural history of fear… Audio

Filmmaker Mike Lerner spent six months with members of the Russian feminist art collective, Pussy Riot as they fought charges of hooliganism and religious hatred for their performance of a "punk… Audio

Waikato businessman who founded Prolife Foods with his wife Kaye, in the mid 1980s. What began as a start up to sell a bulk supply of imported dried apricots has grown to be one of NZ's largest… Audio

Philipp Meyer is an American author of two books. His debut novel American Rust set out to explore the decline of the middle class in the industrial northeast of the US. His latest novel 'The Son'… Audio

Charley Pride is a superstar of country music - an improbable destiny given his humble beginnings as a sharecropper's son on a cotton farm in Mississippi. His unique journey to the top of the music… Audio

Iranian playwright whose work 'White Rabbit, Red Rabbit' opens at Auckland's Q Theatre tonight. The play dissects the experience of a whole generation of young Iranian adults unable to leave their… Audio

Shane Cotton's latest works exploring the sky are on display at Wellington's City Gallery. Audio

Dr Huhana Hickey is a lawyer in Auckland who has a particular interest in representing people with disabilities. She is on the Human Rights Review Tribunal, and has her own consultancy that does… Audio