Sunday Morning Podcast Options

7:10 AM.Auckland University's Professor Ian Reid was one of those behind ground-breaking studies that revealed vitamin supplements are largely ineffective when it comes to restoring bone density. Now he's… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Wallace Chapman discusses our rich history of art fraud with Penelope Jackson, author of Art Thieves, Fakers and Fraudsters: The New Zealand story. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.A stand-off has been going on between pro-life and pro-choice protestors in the Coromandel town of Thames. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.On 16 October 1936 New Zealand aviator Jean Batten made history by becoming the first person to fly solo from England to New Zealand.
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9:06 AM.Some journalists pulled out all the stops this week to find a local angle to a gripping international story while others declared a truly important local story less than gripping; the 250th… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.For the book, The New Torchlight List - In Search of the Best Modern Authors, Otago University Emeritus Professor of Politics Jim Flynn read and rated 400 books, mostly by modern novelists. In this… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Andrew McRae travels to the centenary commemorations of the Battle of the Somme and asks whether the thousands of lives sacrificed by New Zealand on the battlefield count when it come to trade… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.The median age in Porirua is 32.6 - the youngest of any New Zealand city - and 26 percent of the population is under 15. The Otago School of Medicine has created an app to help find out how the young… Read more Audio

7:08 AM.Initiatives to target obesity are not working because we are fat shaming people and not addressing the causes. Two social science researchers at Auckland university, Dr Darren Powell and George… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.Jim Flynn and Wallace Chapman discuss Australasian literature.

Wallace takes on Jim over Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries - too long, says Jim. Not so, says Wallace. Jim says Catton can write but she… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.In 1959 artist June Black held what she titled an Intellectual Fashion Show - which included paintings, ceramic wall sculptures, and provocative commentary on the state of fashion in New Zealand… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Neurologist Dr Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla is an expert in traumatic brain injury and the issues that arise from the assessment and treatment of individuals from different cultures. He is in New… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Writer and psychology professor Andrew Solomon is fascinated with places in major transformation – cultural, political and spiritual. He talks with Wallace Chapman about what he's learned, traveling… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Jim Flynn tells Wallace Chapman that Italian Umberto Eco's best work is The Name of the Rose but this comes with a warning as Eco "loves to demonstrate his learning. The plot is interrupted by long… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.What went right and wrong in the Auckland election with our panel; RNZ's expert in all things Auckland ,Todd Niall, PR consultant and former political editor of the NBR, Ben Thomas, and former editor… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.With Professor Brownwn Hayward, Head of Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Canterbury Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Cantabrians have voted for their regional council for the first time in nine years, Conan Young reports. Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Hawke's Bay reporter Peter Fowler on the Hawke's Bay Regional Council. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Ash Holwell ran a less than 200-dollar campaign to run for Whangarei's top job got 834 votes, while in Auckland, mayoral hopeful Chloe Swarbrick went from zero-to-hero in the recognition stakes… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Two term incumbent Dave Cull returns as mayor of Dunedin, he speaks with Wallace Chapman. Read more Audio