Sunday Morning for Sunday 31 October 2010

Sunday for 31 October 2010

8:12 Insight: School Choice

Insight explores how much the choice of school affects a child's academic achievement. Are there big differences between schools in New Zealand and are the assumptions parents make in assessing schools borne out by the evidence?
Written and presented by Education Correspondent, John Gerritsen
Produced by Sue Ingram

8:40 Philip Gregan - Saving the Wine Industry

Chief executive of New Zealand Winegrowers, Philip Gregan, discusses the wine industry's path from boutique to glut - and the comeback plan for the next decade.

9:06 Mediawatch

In Mediawatch this weekend - spoiled brats, lynch mobs and loaded guns … the language flying between the warring factions in The Hobbit has been inflammatory. But have media been calm in a crisis? Or have they too been swept up in the turbulent emotions - at the expense of giving us the facts we needed? Mediawatch also talks to a newspaper editor who's trying to change the law, and reform his readers' bad habits while he's at it. But is that really the role of a newspaper?
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.

9:40 Meredith Hooper - Scott's Survivors

Meredith Hooper has worked in Antarctica and is fascinated by the stories of the continent's early explorers. Her latest book investigates the fate of the little-known "eastern party" of Robert Scott's final Antarctic expedition - six men who spent half the year in an ice cave eating blubber, and survived to tell the tale.
'The Longest Winter', by Meredith Hooper, is published by Hachette.

10:06 Michael Field - Nightmares in Paradise

Journalist Michael Field has spent 30 years living and working in the south Pacific. He loves the area for its vitality and magic, but he despairs of its poor political leadership and failed dreams. He talks to Chris about despots, kings and heroes, and his own experiences reporting the unrest.
'Swimming with Sharks: Tales from the South Pacific Frontline', by Michael Field, is published by Penguin.

10:45 Hidden Treasures

This week on Hidden Treasures Trevor Reekie unveils a brand new recording from a former chorister at the Christchurch Cathedral, Dudley Benson, and pays tribute to the recently departed soul man - Soloman Burke.
Produced by Trevor Reekie

11.05 Ideas: Salvationism

In the late 1800s Lord Shaftesbury condemned the Salvation Army as: "[A] device of the devil to make religion ridiculous where he had failed to make it odious. We are not afraid to say that such a movement cannot possibly last." Well, not only did it last, it thrived around the world. Ideas explores the history of the church with retired Salvation Army officer and historian Harold Hill, and talks to New Zealand's longest-serving Salvation Army officer Major Campbell Roberts about his, sometimes surprising, life.
Presented by Chris Laidlaw
Produced by Jeremy Rose

11.55 Feedback

What you, the listeners, say on the ideas and issues that have appeared in the programme.