Sunday Morning Podcast Options

10:04 AM.War correspondent Toby Muse spent 15 years living in Colombia and gained an unprecedented level of access to the local drug cartels. His new book, Kilo, traces the life cycle of a kilogram of cocaine.

9:40 AM.Professor Michael Baker has been a constant and reassuring presence on Sunday Morning throughout the Covid-19 lockdown period. He returns to answer your questions and ours about the pandemic and the… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.Queenstown Chamber of Commerce CEO Anna Mickell says moving forward we need to think about building a reduced-car future by emphasising the positives, rather than trying to push people out of their… Read more Audio

9:33 AM.International economist and author Steve Keen and former Reserve Bank economist Michael Reddell join the show to discuss the post-Covid-19 economic prospects for New Zealand and the trans-Tasman… Read more Audio

8:21 AM.New Zealand journalist Anna Fifield is the Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post and last year she wrote the book on controversial North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. She joins the show to discuss… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Do you become immune after SARS-CoV-2 infection? And if so, how long does that immunity last? Helen Stillwell from  Yale University has been looking at the question of what role immunity will play in… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Rapa Nui is one of the most remote places on the planet, but it still has not been spared from the reaches of Covid-19. Auckland man Marc Shields joins the show to share how things are going as his… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.Gary McLean is a professor in molecular immunology at London Metropolitan University who specialises in infectious diseases, immunology and antibody engineering. He joins the show to look at the big… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Research New Zealand's latest Covid-19 survey suggests only 44% of people who are still employed want to return to work under Alert Level 3, while 47% of respondents are willing to take the risk of… Read more Audio

11:34 AM.Fifteen years ago Sue van Schreven went on a mission to help orphans in Romania and that experience led her to starting Orphans Aid International. Last year, Sue celebrated the charity's 15th… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Annabelle Sheehan was one of the first high profile people in New Zealand to get Covid-19. She discusses her experience of testing positive for the respiratory illness and now having to manage the… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.A study out of Stony Brook University has found cognitive ageing starts earlier than expected. That's the bad news. The good news is that it looks like this process can be prevented - or even reversed… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Raelene Castle resigned from her role as the CEO of Rugby Australia this week after it became clear she no longer had the support of the board. Peter FitzSimons believes part of the vitriol aimed at… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Rhys Darby has been doing his bit to keep people smiling during the Covid-19 lockdown period with his comedy web series The Alone Rangers. He joins the show to discuss the show and living and working… Read more Video, Audio

9:41 AM.Professor Michael Baker has been a constant and reassuring presence on Sunday Morning throughout the Covid-19 lockdown period. He returns to answer your questions and ours about the pandemic. Read more Audio

9:37 AM.Science writer Vicki Hyde and her husband Peter were getting ready to go on a trip to the Carribean when Covid-19 started gripping the globe. Now, nestled up at home, she's abandoned 2020 in favour of… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.New Zealand will exit the Covid-19 Alert 4 lockdown period late on Monday night. Panellists Linda Clark and Mai Chen look back on an intense month-long lockdown and ponder what the slightly looser… Read more Audio

8:33 AM.After leaning into using video calling services like Zoom for meetings during lockdown, leading businesswoman and author Theresa Gattung is calling for a reduction in face-to-face meetings moving… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.We're still hearing about patient trials of the Remdesivir and Hydroxychloroquine for treatment of Covid-19 patients, but Nobel Prize-winning professor Peter Doherty says neither option is shaping as… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.A member of the 'most isolated family in New Zealand', Chris Long grew up at Gorge River on the West Coast. He now resides in Norway, where he works at the Tromso Wilderness Centre taking visitors on… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.Nearly 80 percent of Kiwis are concerned about the lack of physical contact they are having with elderly and other relatives outside their bubbles and regions, according to the latest report by… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Researchers at the University of New South Wales have found that having two copies of the same sex chromosome is associated with having a longer lifespan. Co-author of the research Zoe Xirocostas… Read more Audio

11:52 AM.Like many other New Zealanders, beloved food writer Allyson Gofton has been baking a lot recently. She shares with us two recipes from her "latest and probably last book" - The Baker's Companion. Read more Audio

11:42 AM.Lockdown American style, and it's been a couple of weeks since we caught up with our U.S. correspondent, the bureau chief for public radio and television in Ohio, the award-winning Karen Kasler. She… Read more Audio