Longtime Labour MP Trevor Mallard is one of Parliament's last remaining renegades - being thrown out during question time with some regularity and remembered for his 2007 punch-up with National MP Tau Henare.

It's the end of the world tomorrow, according to the Mayan calendar. Vicky Hyde, spokeswoman for the NZ Skeptics Society ponders what it all means and what she'd take to the bunker.

World champion boxer Daniella Smith talks her brother's suicide and how to overcome adversity in and out of the ring.

1. What do you recall about childhood Christmases - was it defined by rampant consumerism as it seems to be now?

Artist Stephen Martyn Welch this year won the Adam Portraiture Award for his self-portrait, he raised $75,000 for Starship hospital in an auction of his works and his TV show, The Sitting, was nominated in the Television Awards.

What's the state of play with Ruapehu, as we speak?

Australian comedian Heath Franklin - aka Chopper - regularly crosses the Tasman to appear on the TV show 7 Days.

Kim Hill has hosted Radio NZ Saturday Morning Show for a decade. Hill was last week awarded “radio personality of the year” in the International Media Excellence Awards.

Tom Scott - script writer, cartoonist, journalist, music lover - talks about Barack Obama, current affairs and political comebacks.

Ali Campbell was lead singer for the British band UB40 for 30 yearsand is a judge for New Zealand's Got Talent. For the record, he really does like red, red wine over white.

Novelist Emily Perkins keeps company with Virginia Woolf in her latest book, The Forrests, according to reviews. Perkins is to promote NZ literature at the Frankfurt Book Fair with other Kiwi writers next month.