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SUNDAY goes behind the scenes at rodeo's biggest show of the year and meets the cowboys, the animals and those trying to save them. Is this hundred year old tradition, once a cornerstone of country life, now past its use-by date. Is it cruel or is it just sport?

She's a runner, a writer, a fighter, a scholar, a mother and a teacher. She's also New Zealand's Poet Laureate. Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh is a dynamic academic who wants to bust open people's ideas of poetry and where it belongs because - she says - poetry belongs everywhere.

When Bree Robinson, a twenty-one-year-old Gold Coast cheerleader, fell eleven storeys to her death, her boyfriend Dan Shearin - stood on the sidelines, calmly calling his lawyer. He was the only person in the room with her that night. Police eventually ruled the death a suicide, but Bree's family was very suspicious. The story didn't add up. In this investigation, we speak to the key person who knows the answers her boyfriend.

A former Russian spy claiming he was poisoned by other KGB operatives in Auckland is back in the headlines again this week. He spoke to SUNDAY @sundaytvnz about his plight, about why he ended up in NZ and why he was also being followed by NZ's SIS.

They are 24-year old, university-educated Kiwis from different ends of the country, so how on earth did they end up in Syria fighting against ISIS? Ashlee and Sores aren't mercenaries, nor are they trained soldiers, but they have willingly signed up for a war that the UN believes has killed more than 400,000 people. In this exclusive interview with SUNDAY, Ashlee and Sores explain why they risked their lives to join the Kurdish YPG and YPJ armies.

The maverick Kiwi principal who is shaking up education in the USA - turning troubled schools into winners. Hamish Brewer a tattooed, skateboarder originally from West Auckland - failed School Cert twice when he was a teen. But, he says, he's only just getting started. He wants to be the best principal on the planet.