Sunday Morning Podcast Options

11:28 AM.Playwright Hone Kouka speaks with Wallace about his latest work, The Beautiful Ones, a multi-media tale of two young lovers set in an urban environment but with a distinct Pacific flavour. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Actor David Johns, previously best known for his comic work, talks to Wallace about his 'role of a lifetime' – Daniel Blake in Ken Loach's acclaimed new film, I, Daniel Blake. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

10:06 AM.Many of us have experienced the fear of death - but does religious belief mitigate that anxiety? It's a big question that two academics, Professor Jamin Halberstadt and Dr Jonathan Jong, have tried to… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.It's Jim's final countdown and he rates the authors from the very best, through to those he wants to read more of, promising authors, those not quite good enough, the unpromising - and the just plain… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Robin Martin asks what response is being planned for the effects of climate change on homes and who is likely to foot any bills? Read more Audio

7:47 AM.Women throughout Latin America have been protesting a lack of laws protecting them from gender based violence. The issue has been reignited off the back of an horrific rape which caused the death of a… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Writer Linda Tirado’s blog about living in poverty in Utah went viral in 2013. Then she wrote about the millions of people in the US who work hard, yet still struggle in her 2014 book Hand to Mouth:… Read more Audio

11:32 AM.Kiwi Bruce McLaren took the world of motor racing by storm and aged just 22 he won the Formula 1 Grand Prix. Dreydon Sobanja is the author of Bruce Wants To Go Faster - the story of Bruce McLaren's… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Wallace Chapman talks to the frontman of goth-rock band The Cult about their success and the inspiration behind their new album. Read more Video, Audio

10:32 AM.What makes someone, or something, ugly? How has the perception of ugliness changed through the centuries? Gretchen Henderson has written a cultural history of ugliness and she joins Wallace to talk… Read more Audio

10:13 AM.Vincent O'Malley has dug deep into the history of Aotearoa for his book, The Great War For New Zealand: Waikato 1800-2000 - which he says is the single most brutal and influential conflict this… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Associate Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell is director of the Popular Culture Research Centre at AUT. She explains the traditions around Halloween and why it's becoming more and more popular here in New… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.This chapter of The New Torchlight List takes in a big geographical area and a variety of cultures. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Philippa Tolley and visual journalist Rebekah Parsons-King investigate the current state of the sex industry more than a decade after it was decriminalised under laws nicknamed "the NZ Model." Read more Video, Audio

7:46 AM.If you're on Facebook chances are you've seen a friend share a picture of themselves riding high on an elephant in Thailand or patting a tiger in India? Well that could soon be a thing of the past… Read more Audio

11:32 AM.Kingi Snelgar is a world champion bison chip (that's poo to you and me) thrower. He's also a lawyer and Harvard University graduate. He's just back from Standing Rock, North Dakota, in the US where… Read more Audio