It's time to get in the ring and box it out with Steven Hoggett - he's the co-director/ choreographer for a dynamic theatre production Beautiful Burnout which brings boxing to life in the theatre. His company Frantic Assembly have collaborated with the National Theatre of Scotland on this project, and if the multiple awards and rave reviews for their earlier work Black Watch is anything to go by, this show is not one to be missed when it arrives on our shores in March.

We travel the world to chat to the New Zealand Olympians-in-waiting, and in training.

The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge is the favourite of Elizabeth Abbot.

Kupe and Cook in the Marlborough Sounds.

An emergency medicine specialist and New Zealand's only professor of emergency medicine. Mike was made an officer of the New Zealand order of merit in the new year's honours.

Carol May Becker has been named on the New Year's Honours list, awarded an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her dedication to plunket.

One of the 450 volunteers at Zealandia, retiree Margaret Bell explains why she gives up so much time to help out at the sanctuary.

The winners of the creative writing competition, and details of the new competition involving building your own radio.

Blogger Rory MacKinnon from 'mediadarlings.net' talks to us from the United Kingdom about the Occupy movement.

John Tristram has been made a companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his 50 years of service to Land Search and Rescue.