Sunday Morning Podcast Options

9:44 AM.Erin Smith is an artist and researcher whose work focuses on the issue of waste and the future of fabrication. She makes wedding dresses that are grown, not made, and then easily composted when… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Black Caps bowl over the media - and what it might mean for the All Blacks on TV; Northland by-election campaign coverage; a change of direction at Fairfax Media; a fake breakdown that yielded a sweet… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.The last 30 years has seen huge transformation to China. Millions are lifted out of poverty, with huge investment in infrastructure. But also millions of children are deeply affected by internal… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Johnny Blades travels to Samoa to listen to and analyse talks about China's interest in the Pacific Read more Audio

7:53 AM.After six weeks - it all comes down to this - the Black Caps take on Australia for the Cricket World Cup final at the MGC, starting at 4.30 NZ time today. Ian O'Brien with his thoughts. Audio

7:47 AM.While Canberra says its Norfolk Island reform plans have majority support and had to happen there is still significant opposition on the island. Audio

7:30 AM.Week dominated by talk of cricket and the Northland by-election. 34 Bill passed in under an hour on Tuesday. Foreign Affairs Committee briefed on South Korean FTA and nuclear disarmament. Audio

7:11 AM.Winston Peters has won the Northland by-election with a resounding vistory, celebrating at the Duke of Marlborough Hotel in Russell. Audio

11:35 AM.Irish comedian Ed Byrne is back in the country as part of the New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2015 with his new show Roaring Forties. Audio

11:06 AM.Writer and illustrator Dav Pilkey has scored a huge worldwide hit with the childrens series Captain Underpants - ratcheting up sales of more than 70 million. Dav Pilkey is coming to NZ as part of the… Read more Audio

10:33 AM.Professor Beau Kilmer is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and co directs the RAND Drug Policy research center. He co-authored a book out on Oxford University Press on marijuana… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.A hundred years after the war on drugs started - it's timely to ask just how did it start? Who started it? And why after all these years, does the war on drugs continue? And what would happen if you… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc quit her job and decided to photograph the women of the world. Over the course of a year Mihaela travelled to 37 countries, taking portraits of women, documenting… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.The coverage of Cyclone Pam; X Factor judges driven out of the show after a media bullying backlash; one reporter taking a stand against spin; politics by numbers in front of the TV cameras. Audio

8:40 AM.Often the story of urban migration is told in a linear fashion - a slow ebb into the cities ending in dislocation. The reality is more complex. A new book dislodges these ideas and tells of Maori… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.Sunday Morning wants to showcase your musical talents, send your sound file to Sunday@radionz.co.nz - include some background on the song and yourself or your band. We'll pass it by our panel of… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.John Gerritsen investigates the rise in overseas student numbers and the opportunities and risks. Read more Audio

7:48 AM.This week UK Chancellor George Osbourne released his pre-election Budget package - promising a sharper squeeze on public spending and cutting welfare benefits by 12-billion pounds. Tim Bale is… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Various members' bills debated. MPs debate their own pay. Debate and questions on IPCA report into "Roast Busters". MFAT officials front up in committee rooms. Sean & Cody Roberts make submission on… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.One week to go in the 2015 Cricket World Cup - next Sunday will see the final match played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. We speak to former Black Cap and cricket commentator Iain O'Brien, now based… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Former officials in the Solomon Islands' Prime Minister's Office accuse New Zealand of passing on information about the Solomons to China, in the wake of spying revelations. Audio

11:44 AM.Musician Alistair Fraser says the Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum has a great collection of taonga puoro/taoka puoro (musical instruments of the Maori). He played and recorded the instruments for… Read more Audio

11:24 AM.For many New Zealanders, the big OE is a rite of passage. A new exhibition at the Auckland City Library pulls together a range of photographs, mementos, and diaries that document the way that our… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Director Roysten Abel serves up drama and food in The Kitchen - a story about cooking as a metaphor for life, playing at the Auckland Arts Festival. On stage a couple cook up steamy vats of payasam, a… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.There is a well-known series of images of an open cast mine with a sea of people climbing up and down ladders, extracting soil by hand. It is the work of Brazilian photographer Sebastio Salgado… Read more Audio