Finlay Macdonald chairs a lively session of debate about the future of our nation's financial sector with Auckland University's Economics Professor Tim Hazledine, Associate Professor Susan St John, and popular business commentator and investment analyst Brian Gaynor.

Dr Martin Hirst, AUT's Associate Professor of Journalism, Brent Impey, former CEO of Mediaworks, TVNZ's General Manager of Digital Services Eric Kearly and Colin Peacock, host of Radio New Zealand's Mediawatch, consider the landscape of the media today and in the future. Finlay Macdonald is in the chair.

Along with Finlay Macdonald in the chair, renowned architect Pete Bossley, urban historian Dr Chris Harris, and Rod Oram, a frequent commentator on business and economics consider how Auckland will transform itself once the time for election slogans and promises is over. And what role will innovative design and planning play in its future?

Chief executive of The Ministry of Research Science and Technology Dr Helen Anderson with inventor, social entrepreneur and 'New Zealander of the Year' Ray Avery recorded at the Auckland Museum in March 2010. Finlay Macdonald is in the chair.

A spirited discussion with Sir Douglas Graham and Dr Hone Kaa, recorded at the Auckland Museum before Waitangi Day 2010. Finlay Macdonald is in the chair.

Chief executive of The Ministry of Research Science and Technology Dr Helen Anderson with inventor, social entrepreneur and 'New Zealander of the Year' Ray Avery recorded at the Auckland Museum in March 2010. Finlay Macdonald is in the chair.

Professor Brian Boyd, The University of Auckland. Brian Boyd will focus on art, perhaps the feature of human behavior that might seem to have least to do with a struggle for existence. Can biology explain why art (music, dance, visual art, storytelling and verse) is a human universal? Why do we so compulsively invent and engage with stories we know to be untrue? Recorded 8 September, in Nelson.

Tens of millions of years ago the New Zealand landmass separated from Gondwanaland with its cargo of plants and animals. But is there another theory?

How voyages to New Zealand took place, and what happened when we arrived here.

How 1000 years of human migration has influenced our cultural identity.