Sunday Morning Podcast Options

7:30 AM.The House is adjourned for two weeks, and with no Select Committees held, Reesh Lyon takes a look at the lack of workload before Committees; Meanwhile, Tom Frewen looks into Green MP Mojo Mather's… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Economist Dr Eric Crampton and immigration lawyer and former minister of corrections Matt Robson join Wallace in a Sunday Roundtable discussion on immigration. Should New Zealand increase the number… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.New Zealand jazz pianist Mike Nock has more than 100 albums to his name - including collaborations with Tal Farlow and Yusef Lateef. He's been in New Plymouth looking at links between jazz music and… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Senior astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, Mountain View, California. Seth Shostak is coming to New Zealand as a guest speaker at the Aoraki Mackenzie… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Writer Bruce Ansley travelled some of New Zealand's most awe-inspiring and remote roads while researching his latest book, Wild Roads: A New Zealand Journey. The book features 60 routes ranging from… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.October 10 is the World Day Against the Death Penalty and this year the theme is ending the death penalty for drug crimes. Julian McMahon is an Australian barrister who has worked on death row cases… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Does the tall poppy syndrome really exist? Professor Harlene Hayne, Vice Chancellor of Otago University, believes it does and says it's time we started celebrating our academic successes in the same… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Piggybacking on a political attack; media in transition, integrating their news; World Cupwatch - Japan overjoyed but overlooked, and; Richie's reputation. Audio

8:45 AM.Thousands of New Zealanders suffer from sleep problems - and the beginning of daylight saving just adds to a growing national sleep deficit. Dr Lora Wu is a post-doctoral fellow at Massey University's… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.At the start of daylight savings for this summer season we look at the challenges of measuring time and the tricky hurdle of leap seconds. Audio

7:30 AM.Week in the House dominated by urgency for passage of the New Zealand Flag Referendums Amendment Bill - adding the "Red Peak" design to the upcoming referendum; Assistant Speaker Trevor Mallard takes… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Recent reports in the UK media of a "mushroom cloud of retro sexism" has helped focus attention back on gender discrimination in the workplace. Dr Sandra Grey is president of the Tertiary Education… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Social anthropologist Dr Robyn Andrews from Massey University has been awarded a $20,000 grant for her research project 'The Invisible Indian: The Anglo-Indian Diaspora in New Zealand'. Anglo-Indian… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Arapera Blank was one of New Zealand's first bilingual poets and, in 1958, was the first Maori writer to win a Katherine Mansfield award. Her work is an insight into biculturalism and feminism, and of… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Former opera singer turned voice coach who believes "the voice is a choice" and that we can all learn how to use our voices to better effect. She discusses her new book Resonate and gives some helpful… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Dr Lucy Jones is among the world's most influential seismologists and, as a native of California, she also has the practical experience of living on shaky ground. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Kiwi Andrew Laking has toured the world - performing in over 1,500 cities - with Irish band Grada. Now he's back home and has published his first book: Empire City: Songs of Wellington.. Audio

9:40 AM.Lecturer in entrepreneurship, disruption and clean energy at Stanford University. His focus is on clean energy and the technological advances which disrupt and change our lives. Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Scouting for gossip and clicks; shake-up at NZME; Coach Hansen's wit and wisdom on show; companies coughing up for content; The Spinoff, and; more double-up trouble. Audio

8:40 AM.Ross Mountain was, until a couple of week's ago, heading up the UN's response to the refugee crisis in Lebanon. The east Mediterranean nation has over the last year taken in 2,000 times more refugees… Read more Audio

7:52 AM.Mary Baines has the story on the selection chosen to represent New Zealand at next years Pacific Arts Festival in Guam. Audio

7:48 AM.It took him 30 years but the week before last retired DGSE agent Jean-Luc Kister apologised for his part in the killing of Fernando Pereira in the 1985 Rainbow Warrior bombing. Tunis-based freelance… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Sue Moroney's Paid Parental Leave Bill passes first reading by 61 votes to 60 with the support of United Future's Peter Dunne; MPs' references to absent members raise objections; Privileges Committee… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Kicking off with Rugby: As the Rugby World Cup gets underway in the UK, we have a panel discussion looking at how sports - and rugby in particular - dominate the national culture. Are sports, arts and… Read more Audio