Scott's Comeback
After loosing his leg from a rugby injury, Scott Martlew thought his dreams of becoming an elite athlete were over. Then he took to the water in a canoe. Four years on and he's holding his own against top able-bodied athletes.
Being Me: Barney Looks Back
Barney lost his hands and legs from meningitis as a baby. At 25, he looks back on the life lessons ...
Being Me: Barney Looks Back
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 5
For years we've been told to eat less and move more and that we are in control of what we eat; but p...
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 5
Maia and Letitia
Maia Amai's face was ravaged in a car fire when she was a toddler. She barely left the house until c...
Maia and Letitia
Being Me: Hayley
17-year-old double amputee, Haley Birch is breaking records. Having survived meningococcal disease, ...
Being Me: Hayley
Being Me: Robbie
Robbie Francis is 27, and doing her bit to change the world. She's bringing together disability, sus...
Being Me: Robbie
Maia
Maia Amai bears brutal scars - the result of a car fire when she was just 18mth olds. A subsequent s...
Maia
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 2
Brian Kairau can't feel his feet. Years of Type 2 Diabetes has damaged the small blood vessels leavi...
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 2
Bulletproof: Matthew
Carefree farmer Matt Bryson lost his leg in an accident on the family farm four years ago. He contin...
Bulletproof: Matthew
Barney Makes a Difference
Barney lost his hands and legs after an aggressive bout of meningitis. Now a high achiever, Barney i...
Barney Makes a Difference
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 1
Type 2 Diabetes is one of the most serious public health issues facing New Zealanders. What is it li...
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 1
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 4
Type 2 Diabetes is now the leading cause of death in Samoa. It threatens to overwhelm the health sys...
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 4
Where Are They Now? Bea Learns to Dance
Bea Wuts was 4 years old when both her feet were amputated. Now 8, Bea is a keen swimmer and horse r...
Where Are They Now? Bea Learns to Dance
Green and Golden Couple
Chris Bond and Bridie Kean are both amputees who wear their scars with pride. This couple knows a lo...
Green and Golden Couple
Lilly's Legs
Lilly Lomas had both legs amputated. She is now learning to walk on prosthetics; maybe her heroines ...
Lilly's Legs
Life with a Backwards Foot
Seventeen-year old Sean Prenderville survived aggressive cancer in his thigh bone and underwent a ra...
Life with a Backwards Foot
Being Me: Ripu
Ripu was 21, living in Sydney and finishing a Masters in Journalism when meningococcal septicaemia n...
Being Me: Ripu
Frontline Paramedic
Paramedic, Derek Eady, lost his leg after falling 5m from his own roof. He's refusing to give up on ...
Frontline Paramedic
Jono Brownjohn: Raising the Bar
Jono Brownjohn has more power in one leg than many track athletes with two. He wants gold at the Par...
Jono Brownjohn: Raising the Bar
Scott's Comeback
After loosing his leg from a rugby injury, Scott Martlew thought his dreams of becoming an elite ath...
Scott's Comeback
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 3
At 52, former gang leader turned youth worker Brian Kairau has one more dream left: riding a Harley.
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 3
Being Me: Brylee
At six, Brylee Mills lost her arm, and has been coming to terms with it ever since. She's embarking ...
Being Me: Brylee
My Alive Day
Cameron Clapp was 15 years old when he was hit by a freight train. It took both his legs and an arm,...
My Alive Day
Rotationplasty: My Backwards Foot
Having beaten an aggressive cancer in his thigh bone, 14-year-old Sean Prendeville is now facing a r...
Rotationplasty: My Backwards Foot
Baby Charlotte Grows Up
Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman lost her limbs to meningitis as a baby. Now she's 11, and learning to do ...
Baby Charlotte Grows Up
SheLift Part 1
Each year girls and women with various abilities and limb differences from all over the States meet ...
SheLift Part 1
SheLift: Part 2
Each year girls and women with various abilities and limb differences from all over the States meet ...
SheLift: Part 2
Cameron Comes of Age
In everything he does, Cameron Leslie has had to find his own way. Born without fully formed arms an...
Cameron Comes of Age
Wheel Blacks Special: Part 2
Wheel Blacks Special: Part 2
Wheel Blacks Special: Part 1
Are the Wheelblacks on track for gold in Beijing? They brought home medals in Sydney and Athens and ...
Wheel Blacks Special: Part 1
What's Your Possibility? Paddy Walsh
Shakti has a chat with Paddy Walsh. Paddy, a 15 year old amputee and sportswoman talks to Shakti abo...
What's Your Possibility? Paddy Walsh
Question Time: Living with a Prosthetic Leg
In this episode of Question Time, we are asking Robbie about living with a prosthetic leg. Made wit...
Question Time: Living with a Prosthetic Leg
Question Time: Septicaemia Survivor
Five years ago Korrin's life turned upside down when she contracted sepsis which resulted in amputat...
Question Time: Septicaemia Survivor
Love Is Blind: Korin & Craig
When Korrin lost her hands and feet to septicaemia, Craig was by her side the whole time. Korrin had...
Love Is Blind: Korin & Craig
Diabetes: The Silent Killer
Type 2 diabetes is New Zealand’s silent killer. More than 250,000 Kiwis live with it; a further 100,...
Diabetes: The Silent Killer
Ian's first steps
Iron Man Ian Winson lost both his legs in a freak gas explosion two years ago. He desperately wants ...
Ian's first steps
Being Me: Kasem
13-year-old refugee Kasem lost his leg and much of his upper arm in a bomb attack in Syria, which al...
Being Me: Kasem
Ian's story: How I lost my legs and found freedom
Though things looked bleak after a deadly explosion, Ian Winson didn't let it dampen his determinati...
Ian's story: How I lost my legs and found freedom
Bulletproof: Shaz
Less than two years after losing her left arm, Shaz Dagg became the first female amputee to complete...
Bulletproof: Shaz
Bulletproof: Mitch Joynt
Mitch Joynt is lucky to be alive. The young arborist lost his leg when he was dragged into a woodchi...
Bulletproof: Mitch Joynt
Jamie Nepia
Jamie Nepia lost a leg after a violent shooting. To help rebuild her life, she took up boxing and di...
Jamie Nepia
Bulletproof: Wojtek Czyz
Wojtek Czyz’s professional soccer career was cut short when his left leg was amputated. He went on t...
Bulletproof: Wojtek Czyz
Bulletproof: Anna Parsons
University student Anna Parsons suffered horrific injuries in a climbing fall accident in the US. In...
Bulletproof: Anna Parsons
Bulletproof Jake Gibbons
Jake Gibbons lost both feet and his right hand to frostbite in Greenland and has had to adapt to his...
Bulletproof Jake Gibbons
Bulletproof Jake Gibbons
Jake Gibbons lost both feet and his right hand to frostbite in Greenland and has had to adapt to his...
Bulletproof Jake Gibbons
Bulletproof: Tim
Tim Young was on the trip of a lifetime in Canada when a snowboarding accident left him a tetraplegi...
Bulletproof: Tim
Bulletproof: Jezza
A canyoning accident in Switzerland left Jezza Williams a tetraplegic. An adventurer at heart, just ...
Bulletproof: Jezza
Being Me: Samarra
Samarra Wright grew up fearing she’d get MND - it killed her mother and many of her wider family. H...
Being Me: Samarra
Bulletproof: Ashley
30-year-old Ashley Treseder dived off a pier in NSW and broke his neck. Now fresh out of rehab and i...
Bulletproof: Ashley
Cody's New Game
After breaking his neck in a ruby game, 17-year-old Cody Everson has and to adjust to life in a whee...
Cody's New Game
Bulletproof: Bailley
Bailley Unahi was crushed when a balcony collapsed on her at a student concert in Dunedin. Paralysed...
Bulletproof: Bailley
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 5
For years we've been told to eat less and move more and that we are in control of what we eat; but p...
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 5
I Have Burns, What's Your Excuse?
75% of Dukie King's body was burned in an accident as a toddler. Now 5, his first day of school is q...
I Have Burns, What's Your Excuse?
Maia and Letitia
Maia Amai's face was ravaged in a car fire when she was a toddler. She barely left the house until c...
Maia and Letitia
Timor Leste: A Love Story
Joel Morais Fernandes lives in Timor Leste, one of the poorest countries in the world. After a motor...
Timor Leste: A Love Story
Being Me: Hayley
17-year-old double amputee, Haley Birch is breaking records. Having survived meningococcal disease, ...
Being Me: Hayley
My Perfect Family: Creative Clan
Ranger Ashurst is eleven and needs regular injections to control his Chrone's disease, his eight yea...
My Perfect Family: Creative Clan
Young in Aged Care
They're 24 people you want to meet. All are finalists in the 8th annual Attitude Awards, an event ho...
Young in Aged Care
Where Are They Now? Louisa's Baby
While her family raises her son in New Zealand, Louisa lives in Samoa. 2 year old Lance is travellin...
Where Are They Now? Louisa's Baby
Where Are They Now? Maija's Story
We catch up with a delightful ten year old who loves telling tales... but Maija Fredrichberg's own m...
Where Are They Now? Maija's Story
Maia
Maia Amai bears brutal scars - the result of a car fire when she was just 18mth olds. A subsequent s...
Maia
Bulletproof: Sophia
Sophia Malthus became a quadriplegic after being thrown off her horse. Follow this sassy young woman...
Bulletproof: Sophia
My Perfect Family: Cystic Sisters
Kristy and Nikki are sisters and young mums who bring smiles to the faces of strangers by doing surp...
My Perfect Family: Cystic Sisters
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 2
Brian Kairau can't feel his feet. Years of Type 2 Diabetes has damaged the small blood vessels leavi...
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 2
Bulletproof: Matthew
Carefree farmer Matt Bryson lost his leg in an accident on the family farm four years ago. He contin...
Bulletproof: Matthew
Being Me Sam
Sam Humphrey is the height of your average 7-year old. Except that he's not 7 - he's 22. However Sam...
Being Me Sam
Barney Makes a Difference
Barney lost his hands and legs after an aggressive bout of meningitis. Now a high achiever, Barney i...
Barney Makes a Difference
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 1
Type 2 Diabetes is one of the most serious public health issues facing New Zealanders. What is it li...
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 1
Where are They Now? Shakti: A Message to My Younger Self
What's it like to go from being the cute kid in a wheelchair, to facing the mayhem of high school? S...
Where are They Now? Shakti: A Message to My Younger Self
Bandwidth and Bandages
Ashley Worthy has skin as fragile as a butterfly's wings; that will blister and peel at the slightes...
Bandwidth and Bandages
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 4
Type 2 Diabetes is now the leading cause of death in Samoa. It threatens to overwhelm the health sys...
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 4
Where Are They Now? Bea Learns to Dance
Bea Wuts was 4 years old when both her feet were amputated. Now 8, Bea is a keen swimmer and horse r...
Where Are They Now? Bea Learns to Dance
Green and Golden Couple
Chris Bond and Bridie Kean are both amputees who wear their scars with pride. This couple knows a lo...
Green and Golden Couple
Lilly's Legs
Lilly Lomas had both legs amputated. She is now learning to walk on prosthetics; maybe her heroines ...
Lilly's Legs
Louisa's Baby
Thirty-two-year-old Luisa faces the cruel reality that bureaucracy and her disability stand in the w...
Louisa's Baby
Bulletproof: Gareth
A daring university stunt that went horribly wrong left Gareth Lynch with a permanent spinal injury....
Bulletproof: Gareth
Life with a Backwards Foot
Seventeen-year old Sean Prenderville survived aggressive cancer in his thigh bone and underwent a ra...
Life with a Backwards Foot
Frontline Paramedic
Paramedic, Derek Eady, lost his leg after falling 5m from his own roof. He's refusing to give up on ...
Frontline Paramedic
Andy McDowell: Switched On
Andy McDowell has early onset Parkinson's disease, which impacts every aspect of his life. He hopes ...
Andy McDowell: Switched On
Scott's Comeback
After loosing his leg from a rugby injury, Scott Martlew thought his dreams of becoming an elite ath...
Scott's Comeback
My Perfect Family: Twins
For young mum Nikki Stokes being a mother of five means there's never a dull moment. With non-verbal...
My Perfect Family: Twins
Being Me: Claire
Claire Freeman's achieved a lot since a spinal injury that put her in a wheelchair at 17, a design d...
Being Me: Claire
Being Me Nick
Nick Chisholm is a body builder whose body is paralysed, a talker who spells words out with his eyes...
Being Me Nick
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 3
At 52, former gang leader turned youth worker Brian Kairau has one more dream left: riding a Harley.
The Disease That Is Killing My Family: Part 3
The World According to Gary
Gary Endacott has run marathons and climbed mountains but nothing prepared him for finding work as a...
The World According to Gary
When Anthea Met Micheal
Anthea and Michael might seem like an unlikely couple, but the soul mates say they can read each oth...
When Anthea Met Micheal
Barry DeGeest: Beyond Thalidomide
From an international medical disaster comes one of the world's most colourful characters. Barry DeG...
Barry DeGeest: Beyond Thalidomide
Amanda's Recovery
New Mum Amanda Lowry had it all. Everything changed after a freak surfing accident left her a Tetrap...
Amanda's Recovery
Being Me: Brylee
At six, Brylee Mills lost her arm, and has been coming to terms with it ever since. She's embarking ...
Being Me: Brylee
Being Me Shakti
Shakti Krishnan is leaving his family to pursue tertiary life in the big smoke, and to prove to his ...
Being Me Shakti
Erica takes control
Is confidence more than skin deep? Born with multiple physical abnormalities, Erica Perry weighs up ...
Erica takes control
My Alive Day
Cameron Clapp was 15 years old when he was hit by a freight train. It took both his legs and an arm,...
My Alive Day
Diabetes: Back from the Brink
Paul and Boxer could have died of type 2 diabetes years ago, but against the odds, they've transform...
Diabetes: Back from the Brink
Rotationplasty: My Backwards Foot
Having beaten an aggressive cancer in his thigh bone, 14-year-old Sean Prendeville is now facing a r...
Rotationplasty: My Backwards Foot
Amanda's New Life
A freak surfing accident in 2013 turned Amanda Lowry's world upside down. One year on and Amanda is ...
Amanda's New Life
Baby Charlotte Grows Up
Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman lost her limbs to meningitis as a baby. Now she's 11, and learning to do ...
Baby Charlotte Grows Up
The Daverts
Michaela Davert, her twin brother Austin, and Mum Missy all live with a condition called Brittle Bon...
The Daverts
Noel In Focus
Born with a condition that means she is gradually losing muscle strength and mobility, Noel Ratapu i...
Noel In Focus
Blake and Ryan Go Flatting
Experts said they wouldn't live past the age of two but today Blake and Ryan Leitch are enjoying the...
Blake and Ryan Go Flatting
Living With Parkinson's
Andy McDowell is a 48-year-old marketing consultant, husband and father to two young girls. He also ...
Living With Parkinson's
Bulletproof: Ephraim
A 35-metre jump off a waterfall left newlywed Ephraim Gudgeon with a spinal injury. The self-confess...
Bulletproof: Ephraim
Being Me: Erica
Born with a rare condition that affects her outward appearance, Erica Perry proves it’s what’s on th...
Being Me: Erica
The Deaf Side: Part 3
The final installment of the three part series about the Marlins, a club rugby team made up of entir...
The Deaf Side: Part 3
The Deaf Side: Part 2
Continue the mini-series with the Marlins; a group of rugby mad blokes who all happen to be Deaf. Fo...
The Deaf Side: Part 2
The Deaf Side: Part 1
The first of a 3 part series about the Marlins; a group of rugby mad Kiwi blokes who all happen to b...
The Deaf Side: Part 1
SheLift Part 1
Each year girls and women with various abilities and limb differences from all over the States meet ...
SheLift Part 1
SheLift: Part 2
Each year girls and women with various abilities and limb differences from all over the States meet ...
SheLift: Part 2
The Truth About Disability: Part 3
The final chapter in a series revealing the �truth about disability,� there are plenty of laughs in ...
The Truth About Disability: Part 3
Arthritis
Meet three inspirational young women pursuing their ambitions while living with arthritis - includin...
Arthritis
Cameron Comes of Age
In everything he does, Cameron Leslie has had to find his own way. Born without fully formed arms an...
Cameron Comes of Age
Mark Grantham: Mark's Vision
Mark has cerebral palsy and a goal to fly to Africa to visit the children he supports through World ...
Mark Grantham: Mark's Vision
Mackenzie's Voice
Mackenzie is a young woman bursting with enthusiasm and ready to take on the world, shows us her way...
Mackenzie's Voice
The Truth About Disability: Part 1
A three part series revealing the �Truth About Disability.� A wide range of perspectives on all the ...
The Truth About Disability: Part 1
Christine Amosa
Christine lives with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a rare condition where she has progressively lost ...
Christine Amosa
Mackenzie CP
Makenzie Kench has Cerebral Palsy and has very high physical needs. She's assisted with a talk link ...
Mackenzie CP
Jess Teenager
Music, make-up and social media, Jess Coppock is a typical teenager, having contracted transverse my...
Jess Teenager
The Value of Art
In the art world they're referred to as outsider artists. They live with disability and they've neve...
The Value of Art
Holly Talks Tech
Holly Ross is 11 years old and loves to chat at least she does now thanks to developing talk technol...
Holly Talks Tech
The Truth About Disability: Part 2
Part two of a series revealing the truth about disability: a frank conversation on the more delicate...
The Truth About Disability: Part 2
Tegan University: Campus Life
Tegan has Muscular Dystrophy and uses a power chair to get around, so she faces a few additional cha...
Tegan University: Campus Life
Aging with SCI
People weren't designed to be sitting down all of their lives. Aging with SCI is a recent phenomenon...
Aging with SCI
Skateboard Kevin: Skateboarding Traveller
American exchange student Kevin Connolly has no legs, he's traveling the world on his skateboard
Skateboard Kevin: Skateboarding Traveller
Shooting from the Hip
Charlotte has had nine surgeries to overcome hip dysplasia.
Shooting from the Hip
Amosa Update
Catch up with Christine, who lives with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a rare condition where she has ...
Amosa Update
Kerri Bonner
With a a high level of cerebral palsy, Kerri Bonner may look like she needs help, but Kerri is geari...
Kerri Bonner
Bulletproof: Amanda
It’s been seven years since Amanda Lowry broke her neck while surfing. Accepting a new normal with t...
Bulletproof: Amanda
Bulletproof: Dinesh
Halfway through medical school, a car accident left Dinesh Palipana tetraplegic. Despite huge hurdle...
Bulletproof: Dinesh
Diabetes: The Silent Killer
Type 2 diabetes is New Zealand’s silent killer. More than 250,000 Kiwis live with it; a further 100,...
Diabetes: The Silent Killer
My Perfect Family: Bold As Brass
As New Zealanders living in Australia, Abbi and Morgan Brass received no government support when the...
My Perfect Family: Bold As Brass
Being Me: Claudia
Claudia survived leukaemia, but the treatment that saved her life also left her with permanent disab...
Being Me: Claudia
Bulletproof: Anita
A life-changing quad bike accident at 18 left Anita Kendrick paraplegic. But with determination and ...
Bulletproof: Anita
My Perfect Family: Friedreich's Ataxia
Preparing for a 30th birthday is a big deal in the Boon family. Three out of five siblings live with...
My Perfect Family: Friedreich's Ataxia
Nikita Howarth
Nikita Howarth is a Para swimmer aiming to compete at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, c...
Nikita Howarth
Gareth Lynch
Gareth Lynch is a Wheelchair rugby player as part of New Zealand’s Wheel Blacks. Four years ago, Lyn...
Gareth Lynch
Ben Tuimaseve
Ben Tuimaseve is a Para athlete that competes in Para athletics, with a focus on shot put. Tuimaseve...
Ben Tuimaseve
Ian's first steps
Iron Man Ian Winson lost both his legs in a freak gas explosion two years ago. He desperately wants ...
Ian's first steps
Being Me: Ivan
Profoundly blind acupuncturist and radio enthusiast, Ivan, is 72 years old. He’s never let his disab...
Being Me: Ivan
Being Me: Cory
Punk-rock frontman Cory Newman is creating big waves with his band. The award-winning 17-year-old, w...
Being Me: Cory
Being Me: Nikayla
Living with Cerebral Palsy, Nikayla Wood never imagined she’d skydive or ski. But with a new zest fo...
Being Me: Nikayla
Bailley's Story: Flying high after devastating balcony collapse
Bailley Unahi’s young life changed forever when a balcony fell on her, but it didn’t stop her settin...
Bailley's Story: Flying high after devastating balcony collapse
Ian's story: How I lost my legs and found freedom
Though things looked bleak after a deadly explosion, Ian Winson didn't let it dampen his determinati...
Ian's story: How I lost my legs and found freedom
Harper's story: How a back bend changed a child's life
When she was seven, Harper damaged her spine. Five years later she’s already ticking off her life go...
Harper's story: How a back bend changed a child's life
Barnes and Dodson: Back At The Helm
Kiwi Sailors David Barnes and Rick Dodson have enjoyed successful careers at the top of their field,...
Barnes and Dodson: Back At The Helm
Andrew's Story
Andrew Leslie sped down a bike track he'd ridden before – but he didn't make it to the end as planne...
Andrew's Story
My Perfect Family: Perrones
Young anime artist Bee Perrone lives with the rare condition, Ivemark Syndrome. Understanding this i...
My Perfect Family: Perrones
Being Me: Jono
At birth, Jono Nelson was given just 24 hours to live. Now the Timaru-based hand cyclist, who lives ...
Being Me: Jono
Outward Bound Pt1
A group of people living with physical disabilities arrives at Outward Bound, in the Marlborough Sou...
Outward Bound Pt1
Outward Bound Pt2
As their Outward Bound adventure continues, a group of people living with physical disabilities tack...
Outward Bound Pt2
Bulletproof: Pieta
Pieta Bouma was just 19 years old when she broke her back while living in Ecuador. Nearly two years ...
Bulletproof: Pieta
Being Me: Marfan Syndrome
Over 6 feet tall at just 13 years old, Milly manages the rare condition Marfan Syndrome, while griev...
Being Me: Marfan Syndrome
Lisa Adams - Para athlete
Lisa Adams' life hasn't always been easy, but athletics is providing an opportunity for a change of ...
Lisa Adams - Para athlete
Being Me: Lusi
Groundbreaking performer Lusi Faiva reconnects with her Samoan heritage as she makes her mark on Wel...
Being Me: Lusi
Being Me: Cyrus
Resourceful 13-year-old Cyrus, who lives with Cerebral Palsy, wanted an accessible swing in the park...
Being Me: Cyrus
Bulletproof: Shaz
Less than two years after losing her left arm, Shaz Dagg became the first female amputee to complete...
Bulletproof: Shaz
Being Me: Maisie
Maisie Chilton lives with Cerebral Palsy. Though she grew up around her mother's art, she didn't thi...
Being Me: Maisie
Being Me: John
Sport has been a huge part of John Marrable’s life since an accident put him in a wheelchair. His ma...
Being Me: John
Being Me: Eamon
32-year-old Eamon Wood has travelled all over the world in his wheelchair. Now he’s back home in Chr...
Being Me: Eamon