Sunday Morning Podcast Options

11:10 AM.The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, is a trade agreement thought to be the largest bi-lateral trade deal ever negotiated, encompassing over 800-million people. Journalist and… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Rape culture and the issue of consent has come to prominence in the last 12 months, with the likes of the Roast Busters case, the television film about Louise Nicholas' experiences and the tragic… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Australian Mining Giant Oceana Gold is suing the El Salvadorean government over its moritorium on metals mining. The ban is a reponse to the adverse effects on the nation's ecology with a poisoning of… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.What counts as news these days - and what's an ad; sponsored content sprouting online; the pros and cons of ultra-fast broadband, and; the danger of going down in history as heartless. Audio

8:40 AM.The top prize was awarded to the He Kainga Oranga / Housing and Health research programme, led by Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman for the University of Otago. Audio

8:12 AM.Philippa Tolley explores how NZ Muslims are being affected by the focus on ISIS and possible threat here Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Advisor to the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and a specialist in Sri Lankan civil rights abuses by the government and military. Audio

7:35 AM.A New Zealander living in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, gives her perspective on Boko Haram and the insurgency in the north. Audio

7:32 AM.Radio New Zealand International's Walter Zweifel looks at the French Polynesian government's seeking of compensation from France for the damage caused by the era of nuclear testing. Audio

7:20 AM.NZ First leader looks back at an election campaign mired in distraction and to the year ahead. Audio

7:10 AM.Green Party co-leader on the tumultuous Election 2014 and to the year ahead. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Steve Braunias is back with a collection of diary entries forming a book called - Madmen: Inside the weirdest election campaign ever. Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Mixing art and nature - that's what the artists Kemi Whitwell & Niko Leyden are doing. It's a public art project called miniature hikes - a series of seven tiny colourful huts hidden in the bush, on… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Peter Marshall is back with a new album by Peter and The Wolves. Read more Audio

10:50 AM.Australia has recently passed a number of pieces of legislation giving significantly increased powers to its police and security services. Audio

10:20 AM.Tim McBride is the author of The New Zealand Civil Rights Handbook and was a human rights lawyer for many years. Tim opposed the 1977 SIS bill (which saw tens of thousands protesting on the streets)… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Jeremy Rose takes a look back at what must be the most dramatic and destructive protest against state surveillance in the history of New Zealand. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Every time that a strange new disease surfaces, there are almost inevitable conspiracy theories linking it to biological weapons, which are seriously difficult to identify and are apparently still… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Has exposure defeated evasion, or has spin triumphed sunshine after two inquiries prompted by 'Dirty Politics'?; how the media seize on the age of people in their stories; a marathon media mishap. Audio

8:35 AM.On November 12th, 1991, a British cameraman Max Stahl recorded Indonesian troops shooting and beating to death scores of young people in the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Teresa Cowie explores whether the government's sell off of state housing will lead to better homes for the poor Read more Audio

7:45 AM.The plain English movement has been going for some years now - Next year will be the 10th anniversary of the Plain English Awards it's aim: To get organisations to commuicate in clear easily… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Returning to the issue of surveillance - Dr Anwar Ghani, is president of the Federation of Islamic Associations of NZ. Audio

7:27 AM.The visit to Fiji by the Chinese President Xi Jin Ping last week has taken China's ties with the Pacific Island region to new heights. Audio

7:20 AM.Dr Rhys Ball is a former intelligence officer with the SIS and now a lecturer at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University. Audio