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Aroha's Excellent Adventure
Today was Aroha Nathan's day in the limelight. The 12-year-old from McGehan Close in Mt Albert was offered a trip to Waitangi by National leader John Key. The National leader threw her street into the headlines when he used it to describe what he calls the underclass of New Zealand. Aroha rode north in a Crown car and talked to Laurna White about her excitement. Then at the end of the day we spoke to Aroha and John Key from Waitangi and live in the studio with Mark Sainsbury was Joan Nathan, Aroha's mother, catching up on her daughter's big day.

Motocross Madness
It's one of those classic battles - the passionate who just want to do what spins their wheels, versus council bureaucrats. At Ardmore, south of Auckland, two sides are getting all revved up over the future of a motorcross track that the council has now closed down. That is ins pite of the fact that it has bred some of our finest dirt bike talent. Michael Holland explains the stoush.

Andrew Adamson
It's time to go back through the wardrobe as New Zealand becomes the mystical world of Narnia once again. Kiwi director Andrew Adamson is back home and the four young actors who played the Pevensie children have returned here too - somewhat taller than they were four years ago. The success of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe secured the production of the remaining Narnia chronicles and Prince Caspian will begin filming in a week's time. But New Zealand's lucky to have the production back. Competition for film locations is increasingly fierce and tax incentives in other countries are more and more attractive. Fortunately no one does remote and other-worldly quite like us - although there will be less time in New Zealand this time round. With some decent planning and investment Andrew Adamson is hoping that won't always be the case. Sofia Wenborn talks to the Kiwi director who wants to come home.

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