Sunday Morning Podcast Options

9:40 AM.Shakespeare's work first arrived in Aotearoa on Captain Cook's Endeavour in 1769. Waves of later migrants then brought with them Victorian double-column small-type copies of his writing, and… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.The news media and privacy in the social media era; regional TV rejigged; tragic journalism. Audio

7:47 AM.Dr Christoph Bartneck from the University of Canterbury has been investigating the perceived violence in the product catalogues of major toy producer, Lego, from the years 1978-2014 and the frequency… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Parliament resumes at 2pm on Tuesday. Deputy leader of the House, Simon Bridges, previews the week ahead, culminating in Bill English's presentation on Thursday of his eighth Budget. Members day on… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Sarah Cordery discusses her documentary feature, Notes to Eternity - a meditation on the Israel-Palestine conflict which focuses on the lives of three Jewish intellectuals who have written widely on… Read more Video, Audio

11:05 AM.Wallace speaks to Mohammed Ali Naqvi who, along with co-director Hemal Trevadi, was allowed beyond the secure walls of the Red Mosque in Pakistan to talk to Muslim leader, cleric Abdul Aziz Ghazi… Read more Video, Audio

10:06 AM.Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is in Auckland for talks about the trade alliance between the two cities, plus Guangzhou in China. He joins Wallace, with Auckland mayor Len Brown, to talk about what… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Increasing numbers of New Zealanders are returning home with new hips or knees or other surgical and dental procedures performed at overseas clinics that provide services for medical tourists. Dr… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.A media merger to change the landscape - driven from over the ditch; Panama Papers out in the open - and back in the news; controversial column overshadows confronting campaign. Audio

8:40 AM.Pop cultural researcher, Lorna Piatti-Farnell, joins Wallace to talk bananas. In her new book, Banana - A Global History, Lorna has unearthed a fascinating history of the fruit - she explains where… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.Rev. Socratez Yoman is the President of the Fellowship of Baptist Churches in West Papua and he describes himself as a 'voice for the voiceless'. He talks to Wallace about what he describes as the… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Amendment Bill passes first reading and is sent off to the Foreign Affairs, Defence & Trade Committee; Three bill pass final readings: one extending the time that… Read more Audio

7:08 AM.The US 2016 election season has generated enormous interest in the US, but also around the world. There has been exhaustive comment on what's been happening, but have the candidate's been given an… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Artist Ai Wei Wei calls Xu Zhiyuan the most important Chinese intellectual of his generation. In Xu's book, Paper Tiger - Inside the Real China, he writes about the strangeness and complexity of… Read more Audio

11:15 AM.Helene Wong was born in Taihape and grew up in Lower Hutt. In her memoir, Being Chinese - A New Zealander's Story, she explores her personal and family history - it's a story of Chinese identity… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Ever get the feeling that people are just too sensitive these days? From trigger warnings to claims of cyber bullying to demands that university campuses ban disagreeable voices … the concepts of… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.This week the Government announced plans to spend $22 million over the next four years on setting up a cyber crime unit. So how real is the threat and what can be done to protect the country from… Read more Audio