Sunday Morning Podcast Options

7:22 AM.Mary Wareham is Human Right Watch arms advocacy director and the global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Last month she attended a United Nation's conference on autonomous weapons -… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.A week after the huge earthquake in Nepal that killed thousands and left many more without shelter and relying on foreign aid, UNICEF says that many of the children have been left in shock, with no… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Australian architect couple Rob McBride and Debbie Ryan reveal the influences on their extraordinary designs, some of which have been described as 'unlikely'. Co-founders of Melbourne's McBride… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Novelist and poet Ben Okri had his first novel, Flowers and Shadows, published when he was 21, and has devoted much of his work to describing the social and political chaos in Nigeria, where he was… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Two Nepalese staff working for Wanaka based mountain guiding company Adventure Consultants have been killed following the earthquake in Nepal. Audio

10:40 AM.Xinran on her latest book 'Buy Me The Sky', about the impact of China's one-child policy on those born after 1970. She is coming to New Zealand for next month's Auckland Writers Festival. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Boston University's Chris Walsh has been examining the relationship and balance between courage and cowardice, and how this has been represented in Western literature since the time of Socrates. Audio

9:45 AM.Andrew Dean was born during the time of National Party finance minister Ruth Richardson's 'mother of all budgets' an experience he's written about in his book 'Ruth, Roger and Me - Debts and… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.The PM's ponytail pulling saga - and how The Herald's handling of it spawned another story; coverage of the Anzac anniversary - and another centenary the media mostly missed, and; how millions of… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.Nejat Kavvas has lived in New Zealand for close to 40-years and is a former Turkish honorary consul to this country. He says a century on the Gallipoli campaign has brought the two countries closer… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Nepalese New Zealander Ashish Adhikary is a member of the New Zealand Nepal Society and speaks to us from Auckland. His wife and children are in the Nepalese capital and like many in Kathmandu are… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Philippa Tolley follows the days events in Gallipoli and assesses their impact. Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Laughter the best medicine, but what about fake laughter? UCLA's Communication Studies' Associate Professor Greg Bryant talks about the evolution of the laugh, and how to tell the genuine article from… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.Final week of the Easter adjournment sees no committee meetings, so we look ahead to next week's Annual Review Debate - and also look back to the Commerce Committee's financial review of TVNZ. Audio

7:28 AM.Final week of the Easter adjournment sees no committee meetings, so we look ahead to next week's Annual Review Debate - and also look back to the Commerce Committee's financial review of TVNZ. Audio

7:25 AM.A serious and long-running French Polynesian court case, involving the former president Gaston Flosse, collapses as the prosecution team trips up over a technicality, bringing the territory's entire… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.In true Anzac spirit a New Zealander is in Gallipoli covering events for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Ollie Wards talks about the wrap up of commemorations from the Dardanelles. Audio

7:10 AM.Kunda Dixit, editor of The Nepali Times, speaks to Sunday Morning from the devastated Nepalese capital Kathmandu. Audio

11:40 AM.Joshua Fields Millburn's life was turned upside-down when his mother died and his marriage failed in the same month. It made him think about what was important in his life - what he needed to keep… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Health science writer Dr Atul Gawande is coming to New Zealand for two events in the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival. He talks to Wallace about health care, how elderly people are treated, and where… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.The University of Canterbury's College of Education has been trialling a full sexuality paper for 2 semesters, exploring issues beyond biology to include the emotional, social, intellectual and… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.A free app to improve children's sleep, the 'Kids Sleep Doctor' has been launched by doctors at London's Evelina Children's Hospital. Professor of children's sleep medicine Paul Gringas has worked in… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.In 1848 seven disenchanted young artists in London formed an avant-garde art group named the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which rejected the conventions of the art establishment and aimed to change the… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Further fallout from the Campbell Live outcry - and anguish over the absence of TV current affairs; media companies becoming promoters as well; Hutt Valley bluesman strikes a blow for freedom of… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Brent Edwards explores the terrorist threat to NZ and asks if it's being overplayed. Read more Video, Audio