1Canterbury University expects to lose more than 1500 students as a result of the earthquakes, and now has a multi-million dollar excess on it's insurance, which has resulted in a $14 million drop in revenue, so it is seeking government financial help .

2The high New Zealand Dollar is cutting fruit exporter returns and hurting growers. Leon Stallard, apple grower from Hawke's Bay and president of the Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers' Association; and Doug Steel, BNZ economist who focuses on agriculture discuss the problems and how critical the situation is.

3The annual Cook Strait Humpback whale count is taking place this week and Nadine Bott, the DOC marine ecologist in charge of the annual whale count tells how it is done with the aid of volunteers.

4News from the Pacific, including: The turmoil in Papua New Guinea, the Samoan Prime Minister in Australia and an update on the spat between Fiji and Tonga

5Juliane Kopcke was the sole survivor of a plane crash over the Amazon in 1971. The daughter of two prominent zoologists, she was training to be a zoologist herself, and was travelling to Peru on a flight with her mother. The plane crashed into the Amazon rainforest killing everyone else on board. Now Dr Juliane Diller, she tells us her incredible story of survival, her career as a mammalogist specialising in bats, and why she continues to return to Peru.