Calling Home

Calling Home this week is Grace Palmer. The Kiwi actor is currently living in Vancouver filming on the set of Fox TV's #1 sitcom 'Animal Control'.  Audio

New Zealand athlete Maia Ramsden is calling home from Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA where she studies at Harvard University. Audio

Whakatane-born Aaron Hodges' job as a fantasy writer allows him to live anywhere he wants. So in 2019, he moved to Buenos Aires to learn Spanish, and has been there ever since. Aaron calls home to… Audio

Auckander Jono Rankine is calling home from Hong Kong Audio

Calling home this week is Julian Kirwan, a former flight attendant from Christchurch who has established a successful café chain and is well and truly settled in the Dutch metropolis of Amsterdam. Audio

King's Counsel Catherine Callaghan is calling home from London. Audio

New Zealander Sarah Codd talks to Jim from her home in Bozeman, Montana where she is co-director of the Magnetic Resonance Lab and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial… Audio

Jon Krebs, originally from Auckland now calls Umeå in Sweden home. He tells us about his travels throughout Europe and his love of cold water swimming. Audio

Calling home this week is Matt Toogood who with his wife Tess and their two boys moved to the UAE in 2008. Matt and his business partner started up a coffee roasting company and since then It's grown… Audio

Anna Bibby is living that life that many of us fantasise about living, in France. She's been in a charming old village surrounded by walnut groves; then it was a charming old village surrounded by… Audio

Auckland-born businessman Gordon McMaster lives in the Papua New Guinea capital of Port Moresby with his wife Vagi (who is a PNG citizen) and four children, Ernest, Maureen, Ludwina and Jack. Gordon… Audio, Gallery

Stephen Court is well-versed on life in exotic locations, having previously been domiciled in Nauru, Papua New Guinea and Lesotho, to name a few places. But Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa, where he… Audio, Gallery

Life in the four storey Residence of the Ambassador of Spain to Argentina - her husband Javier Sandomingo - is a world away from Megan Adams' upbringing in rural Southland. She's Calling Home this… Audio, Gallery

Despite the great weather, many Kiwis still like to celebrate Xmas like they do in the northern hemisphere, In Helsinki though, it's the real thing. Reindeer, snow and mulled wine... and that's where… Audio

Expat New Zealand Ashley Eves is Calling Home from Belfast this week. He discusses life in the picturesque Northern Irish city and why he'll never shun his Kiwi roots.  Audio

This week, hard on the heels of Bastille Day, Calling Home's guest is in Paris. Lisa Yarwood and her French husband have made the capital of France their home. She talks about the realities of raising… Audio

Expat Graeme Wood and his English partner Claire are living their dream as owners of Serenity Barge in the Champagne region of France, taking guests up and down the canals in the region on their… Audio

New Zealand photographer Amos Chapple has lived a rich and varied life behind the lens, including spending four years travelling the world photographing UNESCO world heritage sites. He joins the show… Audio

We're heading across the ditch to rural Victoria this week, where we're joined by Auckland-born and bred firefighter Tom 'Hop' Hopkins.  Audio

This week's Calling Home guest is Dr Jim Salinger who's currently in Pennsylvania in the U.S.  Audio