Sunday Morning Podcast Options

10:35 PM.Parliament has a new owners manual and the Clerks who need to be familiar with the rules have nearly 900 pages of detailed information to get reacquainted with. Read more Audio

6:55 PM.The Ministry for Vulnerable Children says women who were forced to adopt out their children had "very little choice" but the state is not responsible. Read more Audio

10:35 PM.It's budget week - when on behalf of their wallets, people become intensely interested in finance policy. The House talks to Treasury about how the budget is born. Read more Video, Audio

11:30 AM.Ngaruawahia novelist Catherine Chidgey's fourth novel "The Wish Child" was 13 years in the writing but has now earned her the coveted $50,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction award. The judges says the… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Everyone seems to love the 2019 All Blacks at the Rugby World Cup. But let's look back at one of the greatest teams - the 1967 All Blacks who have been described as the team that forever changed the… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:35 AM.Ros Capper is the author of The Accidental Carer: A Practical Guide Through Uncertainty by Palliative Home Carers which is informed by her experience of caring for her terminally ill husband. Audio

10:06 AM.US judge Eugene Hyman has spoken all over the world on the subject of domestic violence and its end result in the criminal and family courts. He has a special interest in domestic violence as it… Read more Audio

9:44 AM.Nuhaka in northern Hawke's Bay has a general store, a fish and chip shop, eight marae and until recently little in the way of post-secondary educational opportunities. Educationalist Ngaire… Read more Audio

8:36 AM.Pop culture AUT professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell has been researching why some foods are more disgusting to us than others. Her study focuses on the use of food as a key horror tool in movies but she's… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.The rise in methamphetamine use in New Zealand is breaking up families, piling the pressure on schools, mental health workers, police and rehabilitation clinics. RNZs Northland reporter, Lois Williams… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.There's been an almost-royal wedding at the British society nuptials of the year between the Duchess of Cambridge's younger sister Pippa Middleton and millionaire financier James Matthews. Royal… Read more Audio

Parliament restrains the power of Government partly by asking pesky questions. But it’s harder than it looks. Read more Audio

7:10 AM.New Zealanders are being taxed too harshly, with KiwiSaver funds paying four times as much tax as property investors, a tax expert says.

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11:05 AM.Twins Stephanie and Clair Mills are in the business of making lives better. Stephanie was head of Greenpeace for a decade and now is at NZEI and Clair is in France working for Doctors without Borders… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Author Stella Duffy has written 15 novels, 60 short stories and 11 plays, and is working on an unfinished novel by Dame Ngaio Marsh. Born in England, Stella grew up in Tokoroa, studied in Wellington… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Writer and photographer Teju Cole has been described by Salman Rushdie as one of the most gifted writers of his generation. Teju, who is also photography critic for the NY Times, is at the Auckland… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Lisanne Skyler is the writer and director of documentary Brillo Box (3¢ off), that follows an iconic Andy Warhol Brillo Box, once owned by her family, as it makes its way from her family living room… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Benny Wenda is the international spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua. He's in New Zealand lobbying MPs to support international calls to put West Papua back on the UN… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Methamphetamine is cheaper and easier to get hold of than ever before. Our police reporter, Carla Penman, asks authorities and gang members about who is to blame for the problem escalating. She also… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.Making the decision on when to get your pet put down is tough. Massey University researcher Kat Littlewood is exploring the issue of end of life for cats in New Zealand and wants to hear from people… Read more Audio

7:32 AM.When your home is unsafe and your violent partner is controlling your every move, how do you escape? Parliament is exploring a pathway. Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Last week 82 of the Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 were released. The kidnapping is part of a much bigger tragedy. Kiwi Patrick Rose is UNICEF's crisis communications specialist for West… Read more Audio

6:55 PM.Healthy home advocates say a bill requiring tougher standards for rental properties needs more incentives to get landlords on board. Read more Audio