Sunday Morning Podcast Options

7:08 AM.Former US Ambassador Derek Shearer is in NZ talking about the upcoming US elections and what's at stake from a foreign policy perspective. He tells Wallace why this election is different from anything… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Sports writer Suzanne McFadden, author of Striking Gold, tells the story of New Zealand's golden hockey moment at the Montreal Olympics. Audio

10:06 AM.Musicologist Lily Hirsch talks to Colin Peacock about her book, Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment. We canvas how Barry Manilow keeps kids from loitering; How Enya can sway a jury and… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.While the Olympic Games rock on, Brazil has also got pressing political and economic problems on its plate right now. Rio state is broke and the country's senate has voted to hold an impeachment trial… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.OlympicWatch - reporting Rio as a place of peril; independent papers resist a mega-merger in publishing; the curse of cancerous cliches. Audio

8:12 AM.Teresa Cowie explores the expanding labour hire sector amid accusations that some workers are being exploited. Read more Audio

7:08 AM.Temporary migration is redefining Australian society. Peter Mares says there are around one million 'unsettled settlers' - including thousands of New Zealanders - on various kinds of temporary visas… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Ethan Stiefel returns to New Zealand to choreograph one of the world's most loved ballets - Giselle. Wallace speaks to Ethan about his time with the Royal New Zealand Ballet and what he's been doing… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Australian writer Kate Holden's first book In My Skin is a brutally honest memoir of her time as a prostitute and heroin addict in Melbourne. She is New Zealand for the Christchurch Word Festival and… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Sir Kenneth Keith is a former Supreme Court Judge, the only New Zealander to ever serve on the International Court of Justice, professor emeritus at Victoria University, and a former director of the… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Back in May Tina Ngata travelled to New York to make a submission to the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues. Tina, who blogs under the name the non-plastic Maori, condemned Helen Clark's… Read more Video, Audio

9:06 AM.Maori opposition to 'Helen4SG' takes the media by surprise; the power and influence of Google and Facebook; spotlight falls on sexism in Ad-land. Audio

8:40 AM.Australian actor and director, John Waters, talks to Wallace about his upcoming stage-show, Through a Glass Onion, a play set in the last moments of John Lennon's life. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.RNZ's regional reporter for Nelson and Marlborough, Tracy Neal, explores the future for marine farming in the Marlborough Sounds as hundreds of consents come up for renewal. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

7:10 AM.Karen Pierce and Eric Courchesne are directors at the University of California's Autism Centre of Excellence. Dr Pierce specialises in the early detection and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Author Zana Fraillon discusses her young adult novel, The Bone Sparrow, about a boy born to a refugee in a an Australian permanent detention centre and who, by the age of 10, has never been beyond the… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Earlier this month journalist Mike Carter told us about walking from Liverpool to London and being struck by a deep well of discontentment fuelling the Brexit vote. Journalist Drew Philp has made a… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.The shortlist for this year's Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel was announced this week. Award founder and convener of the judging panel Craig Sisterson takes a look at the finalists and reflects… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Counting down to the Rio Olympic Games, Wallace talks to David Howman, the New Zealander who recently stepped down from his role as Director General of WADA - the World Anti-Doping Agency. He says he… Read more Audio