Wallace Chapman

Founder of global charity that broadcasts into children's hospital wards who is in town for Radio Lollipop's opening of its new Auckland Starship Hospital studio. Audio

Ivan Lomax is a co-founder and director of Wifi Connect, the start-up ISP aiming to provide internet service to eastern Bay of Plenty where one in three families lack access to the internet. Audio

Jane Patterson is at the Labour Party's conference in Palmerston Nth and provides comment. Audio

An update from the Labour Party conference in Palmerston North. Audio

Superdiversity and the challenges we face as a multi-cultural society and what we need to do as a nation to ensure that we adapt to the needs of 'a new New Zealand.' Audio

Forest and Bird's Northland advocate Dean Baigent-Mercer this week released drone-footage shot above Northland's Whangaroa, Russell and Otangaroa forests and tells RNZ's Jeremy Rose the forests are on… Video, Audio

At the start of daylight savings for this summer season we look at the challenges of measuring time and the tricky hurdle of leap seconds. Audio

Author and cancer survivor Karen McMillan joins Wallace to talk about her new book: Unbreakable Spirit - facing the challenge of cancer in New Zealand. Audio

Senator Bernie Sanders was until recently probably best known for being one of the few self-described socialists to be voted into public office in the United States: first as the mayor of Burlington… Audio

The popularity of UK Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn has taken many by surprise - especially his colleagues at Westminster who admit they have barely spoken to him during his decades as an… Audio

Playwright David Greig was born in Scotland but grew up in Nigeria. His award winning play The Events - opened at Auckland's Silo Theatre this week. The play features a different Auckland choir each… Audio

Bestselling UK author of six novels including Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith and The Night Watch, which have also been made into TV series. Audio

Oral historian Alison Parr has given voice to the people of Christchurch five years on from the devastating earthquake that shattered their city in her recently released 'Remembering Christchurch… Audio

Tom Ellison wrote the first book on rugby, captained the All Blacks in 1893, was, if not the first, one of the first Maori lawyers, and was responsible for putting the silver fern on the All Black… Audio

Anton Marcus is Joint-Secretary of Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zones and General Services Employees' Union which represents thousands of workers in the so-called free trade zones. Audio

Dr Ann Hood is chief executive of Refugees as Survivors NZ, which provides mental health and other health care services to refugees at the Mangere Resettlement Centre. Her organisation works with… Audio

Urs Signer this week launched the 'Open Borders Open Homes' Facebook page which has seen hundreds of New Zealanders offering to host refugee families. Audio

There were big names like Zambesi and Kate Sylvester, and absent big names like WORLD and Karen Walker. But, most importantly, what will we be wearing this year? Sonia Sly gives Wallace Chapman the… Audio

Tony Haas has written a memoir called Being Palagi: My Pacific Journey. The late Michael King wrote in the foreward: "Anthony Haas is a Jewish New Zealander. He too is aware of contexts in which his… Audio