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Chief executive of Maori Television, Jim Mather, who's stepping down later this year to take up the CEO role at the tertiary education institute, Te Wananga o Aotearoa. Audio

British Pakistani author who now has a fourth novel published. Audio

Dunedin-born Olaf Diegel is an innovator, inventor and academic who is currently working on a prototype for a 3D printer. He has studied here and overseas, and is now a Professor of Mechatronics at… Audio

The UK science author's new book Anatomies blends art, science and literature to investigate the human body. Audio

Charles Moore is the former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator. He was chosen by Margaret Thatcher to write her biography and had full access to her private papers… Audio

The amateur historian, TV presenter and political activist is well known for playing Baldrick in the BBC TV series Blackadder and for hosting the British programmes Time Team and The Worst Jobs in… Audio

Don Watson was ex-Prime Minister Paul Keating's speechwriter and wrote a bestselling account of that period, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister. His other books include… Audio

Professor Phil Lester is from Victoria University's School of Biological Sciences. From detecting explosives to deterring elephants: we hear about the intriguing world of ants, bees and wasps - the… Audio

Toronto-based photographer whose book The Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the End of the Analogue Era chronicles the rapid speed at which film and the huge factories that produced it have… Audio

Is PMT a myth? The belief that women are moody in the days before their period is largely a myth, according to the research of New Zealander Dr Sarah Romans. Sarah Romans is a senior academic… Audio

Farzana Wahidy is one of few female photographers and photo-journalists in Afghanistan. Her photographs depict the daily lives of women and girls in the war-torn nation. Audio

American Amanda Knox was convicted with her former boyfriend of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Umbria, Italy in 2009. She served four years of a 26-year sentence before the… Audio

Barry Brickell moved to the Coromandel to teach high school in the 1960s. But less than a year later he abandoned teaching to set up a pottery studio and kiln on a property in Driving Creek. Fifty… Audio

Founder of Room to Read, an organisation bringing books to children who don’t have any. Fifteen-thousand libraries have been founded and 12 million books distributed. Audio

Doctor Joe Dunn is a Sydney psychiatrist who founded 'Psychs on Bikes' - a group of mental health professionals who undertake huge motorcyle trips around regional Australia to raise awareness of the… Audio

London-based Richard Reynolds is a proponent of guerilla gardening - it's all about cultivating plants in public places where neglected orphaned land is under-utilised, overgrown or just left to… Audio

Dr Margaret Farley is a Catholic nun and emeritus Professor of Christian Ethics and Yale University's Divinity School, whose most recent book has been denounced by the Vatican. Just Love: "A Framework… Audio

Welsh bass-baritone opera singer Bryn Terfel is considered one of the best in the world. He's about to return to New Zealand to perform two concerts with the Symphony Orchestra featuring career… Audio

Indian born film-maker Nisha Pahuja on her documentary that looks at the contradictions in modern India for women, as told through the eyes of candidates in the running for Miss India, and through… Audio

Angela Tiatia's latest exhibition - Edging and Seaming (City Art Gallery 27 April - 16th June) looks at migrant workers in New Zealand and how they are impacted by the outsourcing of jobs to countries… Audio

She's an award winning children's book author and illustrator who's also had a successful career as a puppet maker, along with being a musician. Audio

Director of Coaching at the NZ Basketball Academy, and the founder of Hoop Club, a community-based club in Wellington for players from five years old and up. Audio

Professor Callum Roberts is a marine conservation biologist at the University of York. He is the author of The Unnatural History of the Sea: The Past and Future of Humanity and Fishing. His work… Audio

Tobacco control - are New Zealand's efforts making any difference? Professor Stanton Glantz is one of the world's leading voices on tobacco control - he is a cardiologist and the Director of the… Audio

Lucy Schaufer is an American mezzo soprano. She is performing the part of Suzuki in the NZ Opera production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly. Audio