Grant was in Antartica recently.
Olympic silver medalist Nicole Sheilds and her charity ride through 5 African countries.
More mutterings from our mate Jim from Tarras.
Long time Queenstown local Dave Reid with his journey and finally a unit at the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust's new Tewa Banks development in Arrowtown.
Former lead singer of The Peddlers, Roy Phillips, passed away recently. We remember his time in Queenstown and we play a classic Peddlers song.
An in depth interview with now departed CEO of the Queenstown Airport Corporation Glen Sowry.

The Gary Anderson story out of The Mall in Cromwell
2025 is 50 years of women on Everest. Lydia Bradey from Hawea has been up and down 6 times.
Long time radio listener, from the start at Q92FM to the end 32 years later, Sharon 'Shazza' Shaw a journey of love, burying her husband in covid lockdown and now a breast cancer diagnosis.

Queenstown comedian Mike Legge - From doing dishes for royalty to numerous theatre productions to window cleaning and being abducted by aliens to a role in Under The Vines and starring in the Mainland Cheese commercials on the TV.
Grant pays his tribute to Ozzie Osbourne.
Light Up Winter in Cromwell with Anthea Lawrence.
More life mutterings from our mate Jim from Tarras.
Dougall Allan from Wanaka. The story of an adventure racer and 2-time Kathmandu Coast to Coast Longest Day winner to a cyclor for Emirates Team NZ in their successful defence of the America's Cup in Barcelona.

Ferg n Grant remember Sir Michael Hill, and a crank call they made back in the day.

Author Lauren Roche on her book Julia Eichardt - A Life Of Grit And Grace from Tipperary to Central Otago.
Grant takes us back to Antartica.
Alexandra Blossom Festival next month. Festival boss Martin McPherson.
Ferg was at the opening of a new playground at Hawea Flat. He talks with QLDC Councillor, from Hawea, Cody Tucker and playground committee member Lousie Merrell.

Kim Logan from Cromwell and his book 'Kim - A Journey Between Worlds" It is more than just a mountaineering story.
This week the 30th anniversary of Bruce Grant going missing on K2 and the Bruce Grant Youth Trust. We play Bruce's last call to Alexa Forbes on Q92FM live from K2 in 1995.
We catch up with Olympic Silver medalist Nicole Shields from Clyde cycling through East Africa raising money for charity. She talks to us from Kenya.
Born and bred in Queenstown, Laurie Scheib, brought up in Skippers Canyon. More fascinating stories and memories from him and his families past.
Grant acknowledges the 90th birthday for the Queenstown airport this week.

More mutterings on life from our mate Jim from Tarras
Gliding royalty Abbey Delore who will join the Warbirds Over Wanaka commentary team in 2026. There is so much more to this young woman.
The audio/video presentation that played at the ZQN Airport 90th birthday celebration last week
Air Milford's Hank Sproull and his 50 plus years at ZQN Airport
Former Bruce Grant Youth Trust recipient Scott Columb and his sports journey in Motocross. Ferg says it is his best chat of the year so far.

Ferg by himself Grant out of action this week
Penny Clark long time QT Hotelier to Queenstown Lakes District Councillor to working on the renovation project at Earnscleugh Castle in Clyde
10 years of brewing sake in Queenstown. Ferg talks with Dave Joll from Zenkuro
Grant shares more aviation stories
John Gray co founder of HOBANZ - Home Owners and Buyers Association of New Zealand. His thoughts on Minister Penks new leaky home legislation. He was head of his body corporate when they had to deal with a leaky building issue. QLDC and there payout and how squeaky clean is Queenstown now

Grant talks to a true local, a young local who was born in Invercargill, grew up from nearly day one in Queenstown, attended Wakatipu High School, got the dirt bike bug, formed a band who opened for Simple Minds, Texas, Collective Soul and Pseudo Echo at the Gibbston Valley Concert 2024, she is now into her first year, doing an Aircraft Engineering Apprenticeship, and is starting to get noticed on the circuit as a National Motorcycle Racer with Heli craft Racing…all this and more and she’s only 18- Mya Wilcox
More Mutterings from our mate Jim from Tarras
Ferg with Calum McLeod from Wanaka. Leaving Scotland at 21, finding Wanaka, setting up Cinema Paradiso then time as Deputy Mayor of the Queenstown Lakes District Council and then a big bike journey across Europe.
Campbell Wright from Hawea back home for a break and the Merino Muster. A breakthrough year in Biathlon with two silver medals at the World Champs this year under the flag of the USA.

The boys talk with Stu Clark, along with Hamish Bourke they have brewed the very popular Rifters Gin out of Arrowtown. Two builders who have created the world's best Navy gin. Quite the story !

Ferg meets two new citizens from the QLDC Citizenship Ceremony in Wanaka during the week. An Aussie Yanni Hatzidis and Dean Rushby from England.
Grant shares more on his beloved "Chippy" aircraft.
Ferg chats to Katherine Lamont from Queenstown and her volunteer firefighters ACC petition to Parliament that 36,500 people signed.
Chris Cochrane from Avalanche advisory on the avalanche on Treble Cone last weekend that took 4 skiers with it but luckily no serious injury.

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