We've got our capes on and our super powers at the ready as young-adult novelist Karen Healey takes us for a ride around the big boom bam world of female comic heroes.

Ferg from Geraldine recommends Douglas Adams's trilogy 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.

Lake Papaitonga's peaceful bush-clad setting belies its bloody past.

Based in New Plymouth for the past 22 years, Louise Roebuck is the founder of youth health service Waves.

Once a base for the famous chief Te Rauparaha and the Ngati Toa tribe, with up to 3,000 occupants, Kapiti Island is now a wildlife sanctuary, where the eradication of pests has allowed kiwi, takahe, kokako and other rare birds to flourish.

Runner Nick Willis already has an Olympic silver medal, but is hoping for gold in London later this year.

Listeners sent in their memories and descriptions of their favourite walking tracks.

Delaney Mes of heartbreakpie.com is a food-obsessed 20-something living in Wellington. Her blog began as a cure for heartbreak; and now happily heartbreak-free the blog continues with recipes, reviews and general banter about life.

Andy Muir, one of the farmers facing drought conditions in Southland.

The districts surrounding Christchurch are finding themselves under pressure from Christchurch central homeowners who've been red-zoned and also from developers. The mayor of Waimakariri David Ayers joins us, along with the mayor of Selwyn Kelvin Coe.