John Weekes
This print and radio journalist spent his youth among the exotic beasts of Africa before moving to NZ.
His favourite kind of cutlery is the teaspoon and his favourite animal is the stick insect.
Apart from hosting the Monday Wire and reporting for a Sunday paper, John Weekes has covered, or become obsessed with, stories ranging from alien abductions in Wanganui and Monkey Flu pandemics in the Congo to the passing of former world's shortest man He Ping Ping.
Tom Frewen joins the show every Monday for "The Week in Parliament" - a roundup of the Beehive's best squabbles, scandals and notable events.