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HARDtalk's guest in London is New Zealand's Prime Minister, John Key. His first term in office has been a baptism of fire. First came a prolonged economic slowdown, and in recent months his government has dealt with a string of disasters, including a mining accident and a devastating earthquake in Christchurch.
Geographically isolated, small in population, just how resilient is New Zealand when put to the test?
Jeanette Winterson was a twenty-something literary sensation back in the 1980s. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a raw, taboo-busting semi-autobiographical novel about being adopted, being abused, and being a lesbian. In the years afterwards, the author railed against those who would ask her - how much of it is true, how much of it really happened? But now Jeanette Winterson appears to have answered her own question. She's just published her memoir. And the truth, she writes, is even more painful.
The transvestite potter Grayson Perry is famous for his startling ceramics.
They look conventional until you get close and see bizarre images and text, often sexual or featuring his teddy-bear.
For his latest exhibition, The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, he was allowed to rummage through the vaults of the British Museum in London, setting his own culture and works alongside some of their ancient artefacts.
He talks to Sarah Montague.
