Sunday Morning Podcast Options

8:40 AM.Cognitive neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has spent years experiencing and studying conflicts around the world. He's working on understanding more about how the brain… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Efleda Bautista says two years after being hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan, poor people in the Philippines are still living hand to mouth in temporary accommodation while they wait for the government to… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Labour leader Andrew Little runs into trouble with the Speaker, who rules Mr Little's Health Homes Guarantee Bill - which was drawn from the members' ballot on Thursday - was too similar to a previous… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.Waikato University lecturer Fabrice Desmarais is a Frenchman who's lived in New Zealand for nearly 20 years and has analysed TV commentaries of test matches between the All Blacks and Les Bleus. Audio

7:10 AM.Rugby correspondent sets the stage in Cardiff prior to the All Blacks-France quarter final. Audio

11:07 AM.Harry Ricketts and Gavin McLean discuss editing The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing, which explores the ideas of camaraderie and courage, patriotism and politics as well as the big questions… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.While many get their first tattoo just to annoy their parents, for some their ink marks life-changing events. Photographer Helen Mitchell has set out to record tattoos, as well as understand the… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:06 AM.Graeme Wood is a contributing editor for The Atlantic magazine and a Edward R Murrow Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations in the US. He recently wrote an article explaining the rise and rise of… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.It's estimated that around 15% of new mothers suffer some form of post-natal depression, but Kristina Paterson says the issue is still not talked about enough. She also believes the incidence of it is… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.A top secret trip to Iraq; a settlement that raised unsettling issues; local media team up to attract ads; Cupwatch - who hates who now? Audio

8:42 AM.Brian Helgeland has written and directed Legend, a feature film based on the true story of the rise and fall of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie (both played by Tom Hardy) two gangsters who ruled the… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.Fourteen-year-old Sophia Brown set up a give-a-little page at the beginning of September to raise funds for books for children in refugee camps in Lebanon. Sophia set up the page in the knowledge that… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.The second week of the two-week adjournment sees only one select committee meeting - that was the Finance and Expenditure which met on Tuesday to consider the Taxation (Bright-line Test for… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Last month an experiment conducted five years ago at Otago University which involved strapping live pigs to a surgical table and shooting them in the head to study so-called back spatter made… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Sports writer Alexander Bisley updates us on the state of play for the Rugby World Cup. Who's through? Who's not? Audio

11:30 AM.William Shatner barely needs an introduction. Captain Kirk and Denny Crane are just two of the characters he's created and brought to life over his long career. He talks to Wallace ahead of his… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Roesy is an Irish folk singer-songwriter who has seven albums to his name and has performed around the world with the likes of John Martyn, Ron Sexmith, Billy Bragg and Joan Armatrading. He's… Read more Audio

10:37 AM.Do non-human animals have language? What is the memory capacity of other species? Can animals learn abstract concepts and show creativity? These are some of the questions tackled by Victoria… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Helen Wilton was base camp manager for the ill-fated, Rob Hall led expedition to Everest in 1996. She's recently been portrayed on the big screen by Emily Watson in the epic 'Everest' film. She talks… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.Kay Baxter is the founder and managing director of the Koanga Institute which holds New Zealand's largest collection of heritage organic seeds and fruit trees. The institute recently relocated to… Read more Audio

8:37 AM.Dorothy Morris, a New Zealand trained nurse, described the Spanish Civil War as: "[A] most glorious Crusade… where I encountered some of the finest people, I feel sure, in the world - some of the… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.Radio New Zealand International's Sally Round is recently back from Fiji where it's a year since Frank Bainimarama and his Fiji First party won a landslide victory at the polls. Audio

7:47 AM.Marine biologist and the man behind New Zealand's first marine reserve Bill Ballantine responds to the announcement of the formation of one of the world's largest marine sanctuaries in the Kermadec… Read more Audio