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Carol Drinkwater is a British actress turned olive farmer. Audio

Kisi is one of the few bat communications specialists in the world Audio

Psychologist Julie Catt talks about her own unconventional life - raising six kids on two continents with two husbands, a former boyfriend, and a former girlfriend. She wrote a book about her… Audio

Warwick wrote his film 'Samson and Delilah' from his own knowledge of Aboriginal communities and what he calls 'not the Stolen Generation, but the Lost Generation'. He made it real by including his… Audio

Writer and filmaker Peter Wells has just won the country's top non fiction prize to work on a daring re-examination of the life of one of our great colonial forefathers, William Colenso. Audio

Legend of the multisport events industry both here and internationally, Robyn Judkins is best known as the founder of the gruelling trans-alpine event, the Coast to Coast. Audio

Daniyal is a Yale-educated New York City lawyer who's given it all up and returned to the family farm in the Punjab region of Pakistan. There, he wrote his first book, a collection of short stories… Audio

At the age of 51 Wellington City Councillor Stephanie Cook began the long process of adopting Russian half-sisters Katya and Nadya. Audio

Clifford Nass is Head of Stanford University's Communication between Humans and Interactive Media Lab. His research has been applied by more than 250 media products and services for companies… Audio

Nicholas Mostyn is one Britain's top barristers and divorce lawyers, who represented Sir Paul McCartney in his embittered and very public divorce from Heather Mills-McCartney. He has been involved in… Audio

A former rugby player and policeman who's survived a broken neck and a brain tumour, Jason Barrell is now a successful motivational speaker. He's just released his first book 'Try, Try Again'. Audio

Tom Kaplan is a minerals businessman and billionaire who founded the wild cat conservation charity Panthera, one of biggest players in wildlife conservation in the world. Audio

Mark Kurlansky is a food historian and New York Times best-selling author of a number of books about how lowly food stuffs have affected world events. Audio

Jenny Bornholdt won the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Poetry prize for her collection The Rocky Shore; a book that judges say has achieved something significantly new in poetic practice in this… Audio

Acclaimed National Geographic Photographer and filmmaker who directed the film 'The Cove' about the yearly slaughter of Dolphins in a remote Japanese cove. Audio

Best selling thriller writer, comicbook author and Shakespeare scholar Gregg Hurwitz goes to extremes to research his books, from going undercover into mind-control cults to swimming with sharks. Audio

Brand futurist Martin Lindstrom has delved into the science behind why we buy - he tells us why some brands compel us to crave and how to protect ourselves from subliminal advertising. Audio

Justin Kerrigan, director of the award-winning British film Human Traffic, has now made an autobiographic film, I Know, You Know about his own childhood, growing up with a solo dad (played by Robert… Audio

Australian astronomer Dr Brian Boyle is heading up a project to build the world's biggest telescope. Audio

Actor and writer Clara Salaman, turned her back on a controlling religious organisation when she was 14 and has taken those experiences of being beaten and ostracised, of girls at the school being… Audio

Brendan's play, 'Ruben Guthrie', is coming to NZ - it's a fairly close-to-the-bone story of a high-flyer who hits the wall after alcohol becomes too much. Brendan wrote this play after a year-long… Audio

John Watt is McDiarmid Young Scientist Winner for 2009. Audio

Robert Earle, not his real name, has witnessed the very worst in human behaviour. He went undercover to help track down criminals involved in child prostitution and pornography, sexual slavery, human… Audio

New Zealander Timothy Gordon has performed with some of the world's greatest dance companies - he's now working with opera singers to choreograph NZ Opera's production of Eugene Onegin. Audio

Elizabeth Rubin is the New York Times contributor on Afghanistan. Audio