Sunday Morning Podcast Options

10:37 AM.The celebrated Kiwi muso on using crowdfunding to produce a new album -- the aptly named Singles Club -- and the subsequent New Zealand tour he is now on.  Audio

10:05 AM.Comedian, screenwriter and bestselling author, Ben Elton on his new book, Identity Crisis, and a return to stand-up 

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9:42 AM.The uber-talented cartoonist/illustrator/ writer/animator Toby Morris joins Noelle to look at his new web series, Two Sketches Audio

9:40 AM.Hamilton-based Christian Minister Frank Ritchie offers his thoughts on why Easter Sunday is a time to reflect on spirituality in both ourselves and our country, and on the behaviour of some people of… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Filipina-American author Elaine Castillo is on her way to New Zealand for the Auckland Writers’ Festival. She speaks to Noelle McCarthy about her new book, America is Not the Heart Audio

8:35 AM.Professor Peter Lineham on why - given his Brethren heritage - he has a degree of understanding about the latest controversial comments Wallaby rugby star Israel Folau has made online Audio

7:45 AM.This week our Calling Home guest is former Southlander, Don Payne, who has made his new home in the Estonian capital,Tallinn, where he's working at an international school along with his partner… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Some MPs have superpowers. They really do. 'Is it a plane? Is it a bird? No, it’s a member of the Regulations Review Committee.' Needs a better superhero name though.

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7:16 AM.In the final episode of the Good Ancestors podcast, Noelle McCarthy speaks to student activist Raven Maeder and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about school strikes in New Zealand and the search for a… Read more Audio

7:11 AM.Fortune Magazine Features Editor Matt Heimer is with us to look at how New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ended up in second place -- behind Bill and Melinda Gates -- in the magazine’s iconic… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.It's no surprise Hannibal Lecter listened to Bach in prison, classical music has become the kiss of death in film.  Read more Video, Audio

11:42 AM.Philanthropist Chris Clarke is urging people to think carefully about who they donate to and why. Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Auckland University associate professor Erin Griffey has become the first woman from New Zealand to be made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London for her work on Queen Henrietta Maria. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Dr Rodger Fox, New Zealand's own jazz genius, is about to hit the road with U.S legendary saxophonist, Dick Oatts and the New Zealand String Quartet to pay homage to U.S jazz maestro Charlie Parker. Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Kevin Ashton's regarded as one of the first people to realise the scope of what the internet could deliver two decades ago and shares his thoughts on what the future might hold.  Read more Audio

9:51 AM.Armageddon organiser Courtney Collins speaks to Jim about the 24th event in Wellington. Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Angus Vail is a New Zealand born music manager who's used his international connections to hold a concert in New York to raise money for the Christchurch mosque shooting victims and their families. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Assistant Professor of Marketing at New York Institute of Technology in New York City Colleen Kirk followed up anecdotal evidence that dog owners are willing to pay more at the vets than cat owners. Read more Audio

9:37 AM.Dame Diane Robertson has been thinking about bucket lists. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Governments gear up to crack down on social media: how to handle content created by extremists; Vice NZ caught in global squeeze. Programme Code Participants Colin Peacock, Jeremy Rose Topics Audio

8:41 AM.Michael Rose is part of a group of physicists at Brigham Young University who looked at ways to reduce the noise made by airplane toilet flushes. Read more Audio

8:38 AM.Tommy Kapai-Wilson has been doing some thinking about the by-law banning begging in Tauranga where he lives. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Insight - With $3bn heading to 6 regions under the Provincial Growth Fund, questions have been asked about how it's being spent and by whom? Lois Williams asks those getting funding to plant trees or… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.The Calling Home guest this week is the talented musician Emma G who's based in Washington, but spends a lot of time on the road for her musical career. Read more Audio