Sunday Morning Podcast Options

9:06 AM.The return of a Maori TV scoop; military mistakes exposed on TV3; digital transition gathers speed at our big media companies; local cartoons cut from local papers, and; stories about diets high in… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Brando Yelavich on his successful 6-month, which turned into 2-year, coastal quest to circumnavigate Aotearoa. Audio

8:12 AM.Teresa Cowie explores profiling for potential child harm Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Whanganui District Civil Defence and Emergency Management Controller Kevin Ross on the area's worst floods on record. Audio

7:45 AM.Catholic Bishop of Palmerston North, Charles Drennan, on the Supreme Pontiff's environmental encyclical. Audio

7:30 AM.Questions on Housing dominate the week; Wednesday sees a short debate on Southern DHB fiasco; Estimates reviews continue; Committees conduct budget reviews of Ombudsman, Office of the Clerk & Police… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.14-year-old Cameron Wood from Gisborne has been spending hours in his family's garden shed making spinning tops for children from cyclone devastated Vanuatu. Audio

7:17 AM.Philippa Howden Chapman is a professor of public health at the University of Otago and is currently the chair of the WHO Housing and Health Guideline Development group. Audio

7:09 AM.New Zealand is not the only Pacific nation grappling with a suitable ensign and that which best represents its national identity. While critics say there are more pressing issues for the island state… Read more Audio

11:33 AM.Margaret Heffernan is the author of 'Beyond Measure': the Big Impact of Small Changes a book that argues conflict avoidance can result in bad decisions. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Jacob Rajan's Krishnan's Dairy was a surprise theatrical hit back in the early 1990s and his theatre company, Indian Ink, has continued to tour one man shows internationally since then. His latest… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, won all 16 seats in by-elections this week following a boycott by the main opposition party among allegations of vote rigging. Jeffrey Smith is an advocacy specialist… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.This week ACT Party leader David Seymour confirmed he is drafting a bill to legalise voluntary euthanasia. David Seymour, Dr Jack Havill of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, and palliative care… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Lyttelton's Roots Restaurant was named Cuisine's restaurant of the year. Chef Giulio Sturla and owner Christy Martin talk about the challenge of getting Roots Restaurant up and running after the… Read more Audio

9:12 AM.Once over lightly, as a controversial crime-fighting weapon turned five this week. Audio

9:11 AM.Police-based reality TV shows are on screen almost every night now. Who's calling the shots when they're being made? Audio

9:10 AM.Some media were criticised for reporting too much too soon after the sudden and shocking death of the former All Black. Was that fair? Audio

9:08 AM.Terrible timing for a terrible movie about a terrible organisation with no sense of humour Audio

9:05 AM.All cops, all primetime: do popular police reality TV shows give us a true picture? Also coverage of Jerry Collins's death raises hackles, a superficial scan of five years of the taser and the… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Kenia Serrano is the president of the Cuba Institute for Friendship with the Peoples and an MP in the communist state's parliament. Read more Audio

7:48 AM.He's a former public health specialist, he's worked in Aboriginal health and is now the new leader of the Australian Green Party. Audio

7:30 AM.MPs on Finance and Expenditure Committee quiz Reserve Bank Governor, Graeme Wheeler, about Thursday's 25-point cut in the Official Cash Rate. Labour's Palmerston North MP, Iain Lees-Galloway… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.Do Sir Tim Hunt's comments about women in labs indicate a wider problem with sexism in science? Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Environmental journalist Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava on the aftermath of India's heatwave. Audio

11:40 AM.Legal researcher, mother of two young, and Coro blogger on the history and evolution of the world's favourite street. Audio