Sunday Morning Podcast Options

11:30 AM.Kiwi actor, dancer and singer Graeme Isaako has been the understudy in the Australian production of Disney's Aladdin the Musical for some time. But for the New Zealand production opening in January he… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:04 AM.Charley Pride is one of the all time greats not just in country, but in recorded music history. The only artist that outsold Charley Pride when he was at RCA was Elvis Presley. He has had a string of… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Award-winning Kiwi documentary maker Bryn Evans has been kidnapped twice, caught in serious fire fights, told the story of the Taliban's cricket team, and introduced some hip-hop dancing Auckland… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.James Hook, aka the Iron Man, is the founder and ironer-in-chief of the Brooklyn Ironers' Union. Hook and his fellow ironers set up their boards in bars and cafes in the New York borough and iron… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.The government's approach to welfare and work continues to ignore the largest labour market in every economy in the world, former National MP and groundbreaking feminist economist Dr Marilyn… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.Imagine if instead of voting people into power, politicians were randomly selected from the population. The system of sortition goes back to the ancient Greeks, and Australian writer and academic Tim… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Sport and politics have always fascinated Victoria University of Wellington graduate Micheal Warren. This week he graduated with a PhD in Political Science that combined the two subjects - his thesis… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Parliament is something of a circus. In the middle of it all as ringmaster, the Speaker. In just over a year Trevor Mallard has already made or begun significant change in Parliament, and reveals he… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Marc Edelman explains what the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas means. Just seven countries voted against its adoption recently, and of those was NZ… Read more Audio

7:11 AM.Amnesty International warns the actions of "tough guy" world leaders pushing misogynistic, xenophobic and homophobic policies has placed freedoms and rights that were won long ago in fresh jeopardy… Read more Audio

6:55 PM.Four types of bills can be passed by Parliament and this week some of the less common type had their third and final reading. Audio

6:55 PM.Select committees don't get as much time in the limelight as other parts of Parliament but they're an important point of contact between MPs and the public says the chair of the Finance and… Read more Audio

6:55 PM.In case a government gets carried away with itself and makes up rules where it can't get laws passed, Parliament regularly checks through the latest decrees and keeps itself at the 'top of the hill'.

11:30 AM.Karyn Hay is still remembered for presenting Radio With Pictures from 1980-1986 and RNZ listeners will know her from her show Lately, with Karyn Hay. But Karyn is also an author of note. Her first… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.New book Backstage Passes: The Untold Story of New Zealand Live Music Venues looks back at the history of  NZ music venues between 1960 and 1990. Wallace spoke to its author Joanna Mathers. Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oxford, is a respected historian and author of the 2016 biography "Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet", a book described by Hilary Mantel s "smart… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.Dean Poole's the first New Zealander to become president of the global design organisation Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). He talks about the importance of design in a world reliant on… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.Facadism in Auckland is getting under the collar of heritage expert Allan Matson. It's an architectural practice that took off in the 1980s - gutting old buildings and retaining their facade. The art… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Insight - Philippa Tolley investigates how well youth justice residences are doing at turning offending around. Read more Video, Audio

7:47 AM.Many Parisian tourist attractions and museums, along with shops on the Champs-Élysées are closed this weekend amidst fears of renewed violence in the French capital. Authorities have deployed… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Parliament has 17 select committees but the Maori Affairs and Health Committees both claim to be the most collaborative.  Read more Audio