Sunday Morning Podcast Options

7:11 AM.In handing over the ISIS fight in Syria to Turkey, there are fears that US President Donald Trump has helped launch a platform for the Islamic State to make its comeback. Journalist and author Mike… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Research shows that in early courtship, it's generally the man who performs the role of the joker and women are the receptive ones, but over time the roles are reversed and it is the men who crave the… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.The cults and propaganda surrounding dictatorships, from Hitler and Stalin to Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung, are revealed in a new book by the Dutch historian Frank Dikotter. 'How to Be a Dictator'… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Anne Unkenstein is a Melbourne-based clinical neuropsychologist who helps people cope with memory illnesses, including dementia. Dr Unkenstein's new book, Memory-wise, explains how memory works and… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.A longitudinal study of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in the US has discovered surprising insights into the impact speaking many languages has on a person's likelihood of developing dementia. The… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.In 1996 Australian filmmaker Baz Lurmann made a big splash by putting Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet on the big-screen in a contemporary setting. Helping to colour the movie's moods and reflect the… Read more Audio

9:38 AM.Wellingtonian Siobhan Leachman says she misses the Wellington central library after it was closed down because of earthquake risk earlier this year. Read more Audio

9:00 AM.Covering Climate Now saw all of New Zealand's major media companies upping their environmental coverage but it was still eclipsed by the rugby World Cup and New Zealand Herald journalist Keith Ng on… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.How does reading online affect your ability to take in what you're reading and could it have an impact on how much you read printed material? A new survey by Read NZ reveals we are losing the ability… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Wellingtonians Olivia Mitchell and Tony Burns sold up everything, including horses and a large rural property in Whiteman's Valley near Wellington, set up their public speaking training business so it… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.MPs are working on legislation to reform abortion law and their decisions are often shaped by those who turn up to talk to them at select committee.  Read more Audio

7:21 AM.Most of the plastic washing up on the shores of Inaccessible Island, a UK protectorate in the Tristan da Cunha group, in the middle of the South Atlantic ocean, comes from a place we haven't fully… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.What will it take to quell unrest in the former British colony? This past week saw what was perhaps inevitable, the shooting of a teenage student by police. The street violence in the days since has… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.The All Blacks opening pool clash with South Africa drew a cloud of criticism on social media, which repeated when Steve Hansen named the team to play Canada in Beppu on Monday and struck again over… Read more Audio

6:00 AM.The Reserve Bank's Governor thinks the big 4 Australian banks are making too much money in NZ. Guyon Espiner investigates efforts to rein them in. Read more Audio

11:42 AM.With family ties to London that stretch back three centuries, Sir Anthony Robinson was clearly the right person to host Walking The Thames. The man who famously played Baldrick in Blackadder joins the… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.New Zealand-raised Cambridge University graduate student Sahanika Ratnayake can't stomach the modern rhetoric that surrounds modern mindfulness and the general lack of awareness about the movement's… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Franklin Leonard is  the man who created The Black List, a ground-breaking publication that separates Hollywood's most popular unproduced screenplays from the tens of thousands that are crafted every… Read more Audio

10:34 AM.Travel writer Mary Jane Walker says people should always travel to the places they tell you not to. She is the author of the 'Maverick Traveller' series of books.  Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Mark Smith is the driving force behind the hugely popular seat61.com website. He joins the show to discuss his business and why he rates New Zealand's Northern Explorer as one of the top five train… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.He's best known for his work on TV and radio but Australian comedian Tim Ross has always had a passion for architecture and design. The self-proclaimed "designer nerd" is in the country for the… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.Pet ownership around the world continues to grow, and the environmental cost is skyrocketing along with it. Professor David Raubenheimer says people need to start making compromises when it comes to… Read more Audio

8:37 AM.Three Minutes Max on Sunday mornings, interesting opinions from New Zealanders. Sculptor Cathryn Monro is also an educator, author, and the mother of two teens. She advises on leadership development. 

7:45 AM.Professor Rod Snowdon was only meant to be heading to Germany for a short while when he first arrived in 1993, but circumstances changed, and over a quarter of a century later he remains based in… Read more Audio