1Winning the Rugby World Cup; It has been 24 years�since the All Blacks last won the Rugby World Cup. Will hosting the event give a�homefield advantage � or just increase the pressure? Insight considers how the All Blacks will fare and what it will take to win the World Cup.

2Sharan is General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, which represents the interests of working people around the world. Born in New South Wales, her family was heavily involved in the union movement � and Sharan worked her way up through teachers� unions to become head of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. She�s now based in Brussels but has been visiting home � and she talks to Chris about the challenges facing workers in the global economic crisis, issues around the Arab Spring, and union responses to austerity measures.

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1In Mediawatch this week � the media's handling of Alasdair Thompson's controversial comments about women at work and TV3's putting an unedited interview on their web site; ; and should you trust media reports on a survey all about trustworthiness? �Mediawatch also looks

2Raising Children in New Zealand Series on TV1. But is it being shown on the non-commercial digital channel TVNZ7 and the TVNZ web site. TVNZ7 will not exist next year as the government is not funding it. The removal of the Television Charter will bring into question the idea of public service television.

3What�s the future for public television under a government which says you don�t really need a public broadcaster any more to put it on the screen? This week, programme-makers, academics and politicians gathered to talk about that question in the Forum of Public Television in Wellington, and Mediawatch asks if they came up with any answers.

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2Vaughan is director of the US Center for Science Diplomacy, and is in New Zealand for the University of Otago�s annual Foreign Policy School. Science diplomacy is about scientific co-operation between countries and how it contributes to foreign policy. Vaughan talks to Chris about science diplomacy�s role in resolving world issues ranging from global warming to international terrorism

3Professor James Belich was, until recently, best known for his revisionist histories of the New Zealand wars and his two-volume history of New Zealand. But his latest work, �Replenishing the Earth�, took on a much larger canvas �subtitled, as it was, �the settler revolution and the rise of the Anglo world�. And no doubt it is in large part due to that work that he has been appointed the Beit Professor of Commonwealth, Imperial and Global history at Oxford University. Ideas talks to James Belich about his life, influences and what he hopes to achieve in the future.