Jackie Miller is from Auckland's North Shore originally. She was a self-described 'city girl' before heading to Italy on something of a whim five years ago. Now she runs bespoke tours in the Liguria region and is loving her life abroad.

Sara Del Valle is an applied mathematician and disease modeller. She and other disease modellers have gazed into their computers to see the future of Covid-19 and the news, in her opinion, is not bad for New Zealand.

It's been another dramatic week in New York in the trial at the heart of #MeToo. New York Daily News courts reporter Molly Crane-Newman has been covering the case and joins the show with all the latest.

The Indonesian professional football league kicks off Febuary 29 under a cloud - fan violence has resulted in many deaths and the league could be abandoned if trouble flares again this season. What causes the violence? Former ABC Australia Indonesia correspondent David Lipson joins the show to explain more.

Spoon-bending celebrity psychic Uri Geller is a mystifier and probably the most investigated paranormalist of all time. He is also distantly related to Sigmund Freud and originated spoonbending. And now he is putting his hat in the ring for a job with the British government after an advert encouraged "misfits" and "weirdos" to apply.

The University of Glasgow's Professor Alison Phipps is an activist for an end to the awful and lengthy detainment and the inhumane treatment that refugees are put through when they turn up on borders seeking refuge. The Unesco chair in refugee integration is currently in the country and will share her views on how New Zealand is managing with the resettling its refugees.

For the whole of 2019, Finland-based Australian teacher Elln Heytin tried not to buy anything apart from vital supplies such as food and toiletries. In the 12 months, she bought just four things – a new mobile phone, a second-hand bike (after hers was stolen), food containers and a replacement pair of running shoes when her old ones gave up the ghost.

When Winnipeg Free Press writer Ryan Thorpe saw flyers recruiting for white nationalist group The Base, he had two choices: write a bog-standard reaction piece or take a more drastic approach and go undercover to infliltrate the hate group and find out about its members. He chose the latter, and one of the group's recruiters is now facing criminal charges and, if convicted on all counts, up to 60 years in prison.

Consumer NZ is not a new organisation. The magazine recently celebrated its 50th birthday and the writers and researchers continue to scratch around the New Zealand markets to get the details on how consumers are being treated by businesses and advertisers. But what are the consumer issues in 2020 and has our legislation adapted fast enough in Aotearoa to deal with the potential pitfalls of a digital marketplace. Jon Duffy has been appointed as the new chief executive of Consumer NZ. He has been an investigator at the Commerce Commission, led the Trust & Safety team at Trade Me and is currently the Assistant Privacy Commissioner. He's also been on the Board of Consumer NZ since 2014. He starts the job in May and joins Colin today to discuss what he sees as the future of the watchdog.

Kevin Kendrick leads the broadcaster that pulls in the biggest audiences in the country and the most money from advertising. But TVNZ - like RNZ - faces a future folded into a new public media outfit planned by the Government. Hows he planning for that?