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Campbell Johnstone becomes first All Black to come out as gay, he was in the team in 2005. Sam also discusses Novak Djokovic the player and the person. And the Breakers quietly going about making the ANBL playoffs despite coming dead last in the previous season.

Sex therapist Jo Robertson talks to Kathryn about how she will tackle typically taboo topics around sex, relationships and menopause, when she addresses a gathering of rural women at February's Shepherdess Muster.

As Auckland's flooding has further exposed the city's infrastructure issues, Pattrick talks to Kathryn about how to fund and how much to fund stormwater infrastructure. Also, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, has written to Energy Minister, Megan Woods warning that the Government's energy strategy timetable is far too slow. And Pattrick discusses an aspect of the national CO2 shortage that has had very little attention. Pattrick Smellie is the editor and co-founder of BusinessDesk and has reported on the New Zealand economy and business since 1983

RNZ's Jane Patterson is in Whangarei.

Marlborough District Council wants to hear from the public on what should be done with Marlborough Sounds roads to make them safe and resilient against future flood events. Since that devastating rain in August, Samantha says it's been a rather dry summer, with the river flows so low in some places that the perennial toxic algae issue in the lower reaches of certain rivers - the Maitai in Nelson and the Waiiti in Tasman. Further down the coast in Greymouth, a conserve water notice has been in place for the Greater Greymouth area since January 4th and in Blackball since January 11. Greymouth has recently experienced some of the hottest recorded temperatures in over 75 years - which has put extreme pressure on local water supplies with usage being more than double the typical amount in some instances.

Lynn Freeman reviews three of her favourite books from last year: A Runner's Guide to Rakiura by Jessica Howland Kany, published by Quentin Wilson; Barefoot by R.V. Bayley, published by Eden Street Press and The Art of Copying Art by Penelope Jackson, published by Palgrave Macmillan