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And to bow out with dignity and grace, we have Julia Deans performing ‘A New Dialogue’. We’ve even put up a useful quality file for you. Naww.

FOND FAREWELLS: Craig says thank you, and reminds us all to not only point out when the emperor is wearing no clothes, but to laugh and his small willy and pimply bottom.

Featuring 180 seconds with Craig Ranapia, Damian Christie in Afghanistan where he met Tony Woods from Timaru who was building a windfarm, and we celebrate our very own carnivorous sponge which made it into the Top 10 species list in 2010. Full interviews are here:Damian in Afghanistan: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/1126Top 10 Sponge: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/2529

Perrin Rowland on the history of the restaurant in NZ, Thom goes to the Cat Show and Damian goes back to Banda Aceh, Sumatra 5 years after the Boxing Day Tsunami hit. Original interviews are here:Perrin Rowland: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/2705Cat Show: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/2389Boxing Day Tsunami: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/2213

Sir Peter Gluckman on the importance of science communication, a story from the Victorian Bushfires and Andrew Gordon from Pixar. Original interviews are here:Sir Peter Gluckman: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/2915/Victorian Bushfires: Part I: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/1966/Part II: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/2014Pixar: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/2678

A bit of Irish comedian Ed Byrne, a spot of James Griffin talking about the end of Outrageous Fortune and Julia Deans playing us out of the show with ‘A New Dialogue’. For the complete interviews:Ed Byrne: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/1829James Griffin: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/2805Julia Deans: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/3186

THE WILDE PERPLEX. The only thing worse than being talked about was not being talked about? Try having nobody want to talk to you.

Damian Christie and Simon Pound catch up with Ian Mune on his new feature documentary 'Te Movie' which considers the life and times of our rather iconic and trailblazing comedian Billy T. James.

Damian Christie and Simon Pound talk to Dr Mark Morrison from NIWA about the 42 day voyage around New Zealand's seas documenting what's going down on the ocean floor. Apparently fish go to sleep at night. Awesome.

Damian Christie and Simon Pound catch up with all the elements from new clever, creative and quite conscious hip-hop collaboration @Peace: Tom from Homebrew, Lui from Nothing2Nobody, the executive producer Christoph El Truento and producer/engineer Hayden (Dick Dastardly).

HARD LINES, SOFT HEADS Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell called for a "hard line" on youth suicide. Craig Ranapia asked whether we should be taking one on callous, ill-informed MPs instead.

You'd remember Morgan Spurlock from the vicious amount of McDonalds that he ate during his documentary 'Supersize Me'. Now, he's taking on the world of product placement – but making a documentary about product placement paid for entirely BY product placement. Thom Watts caught up with him and tried to keep track of the number of products that he mentioned pseudo-ironically. He lost count.

It's been awhile since we've had some positive news in the fight against obesity. But, with the results of 'Project Energize' released last week, Dr Elaine Rush from AUT University explains that no-matter how you look at the data, it is having a positive impact on the well-being of the participants.

Antonie Tonnon is kind of like a hip-young Don McGlashan crossed with a street-wise Bob Dylan. Or something. He caught up with Russell Brown and Damian Christie to talk about his upcoming album, writing characters and to play us a song.

TAKING CHUTZPAH TOO FAR. Whatever your views on the Israeli spy scandal that probably isn't, this week Craig Ranapia found he was pro-Israel but not fond of the editorial board of the Jerusalem Post.

Ben Hope ventures into 'Zineworld' by watching the 24hr zine making competition 'unfold' (paper pun).

Damian Christie and Russell Brown have a chat with the creators of new iPhone app 'Dowser' which promises you a jolly good time out on the town.

Damian Christie and Russell Brown catch up with Australian Animal Advocate and ex-policewoman Lyn White on her major victory stopping live cattle exports to Indonesia.

CRISIS, WHAT CRISIS? The Auckland District Health Board employs over ten thousand people. This week, Craig wonders if some of their managers should be among them.

Miriam Clancy takes a break from her NZ tour to discuss breaking the "singer-songwriter" mold ahead of travelling to the USA to record her new album.

Jane Hornibrook the Public Lead from Creative Commons explains Creative Commons and where its at in terms of technology, copyright and the future.

Filmmaker Annie Goldson discusses her latest film premiering at the New Zealand Film Festival "Brother Number One""The notorious head of the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) in Cambodia Pol Pot called himself Brother Number One. Kerry Hamill, a Kiwi sailor who ran a charter yacht business out of Darwin was also "brother number one" the oldest in the Whakatane Hamill clan. In 1978, advertently, Kerry and his friends took shelter in Kampuchean waters during a storm, were picked up, tortured and murdered by Pol Pot's men. Rob Hamill, Kerry's younger brother and an Olympian sportsperson, returned to Cambodia this year in 2009 and 2010 to face the perpetrators at the ECCC, the Extraordinary Court of Cambodia, a war crimes tribunal."

PR 101. Last week, a private lobby group sacked an incompetent employee called Alasdair Thompson. Craig Ranapia wonders why various right-wing pundits forgot we like that kind of thing.

Damian Christie and Russell Brown catch up with Cut Off Your Hands vocalist Nick Johnston about changing, staying the same and their latest album ‘Hollow’.

Florian Habicht talks about his latest film offering "Love Story". A pick-a-path romance filmed on the streets of New York will premiere during the New Zealand Film Festival.