Sunday Morning Podcast Options

7:34 AM.The Govt has indicated it will sell, over time, a percentage of the 69,000 Housing NZ homes, and move to boost the social housing sector. Bill English told Sunday Morning last week, that the focus… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.More than 400 candidates are contesting 50 seats for a four-year term. Audio

7:10 AM.The G20 leaders' meeting in Brisbane ends today amid criticism that the group of the world's 20 biggest economies are not taking inequality and poverty seriously enough. Audio

11:58 AM.Kim Hill makes a glass paperweight at the Chronicle Glass Studio under the supervision of business co-owner and glass artist Katie Brown. Audio

11:40 AM.Bungalows, a style of house popular between the wars, were modest homes for modest people. These single-storey houses drew from American and UK architectural influences of the time. Ninety years on… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Francis Fukuyama is possibly best known for his essay The End Of History. He talks to Wallace about his latest work - Political Order and Political Decay - which has been described as, "a sweeping… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Rafael Bonachela is the creative director of the Sydney Dance Company. Originally from Barcelona, Bonachela has traveled the world honing his craft while working with everyone from Kylie Minogue to… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Poet and biographer Stephanie de Montalk tells the story of the chronic pain that she has lived with for more than a decade in her new book How Does it Hurt. The book also investigates the lives and… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Wednesday of this week, November the fifth, marked the four hundred and ninth anniversary of the failed Gunpowder Plot to blow up the ruling Protestant elite in the Houses of Parliament - and King… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.A conversation that wound up climate change campaigners and skeptics - and other contrary climate claims in the media; the complex deals done to get local shows on commercial TV; one man's mission to… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.The world's top 8 tennis players compete in the end of season 8-day ATP Tour Finals in London starting in just over 17 hours time. Audio

8:40 AM.Professor James Bagian is a former astronaut and an expert in human fallibility and in particular how it relates to healthcare. He talks to Wallace about the more than 300 hours he spent in space, the… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Tom Larkin, former diplomat & WW2 sailor talks about the view of WW1 in the 1930s Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Gael Woods asks how much memories of WW1 have slipped into the realms of myth Read more Audio

7:49 AM.The plain packaging of cigarettes is seen as another step in the fight against smoking. NZ is yet to see plain packaging, waiting to see how the Australian experience plays out. Audio

7:35 AM.Fiji has nominated the president of Kiribati, Anote Tong, as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, for his work around climate change issues. Audio

7:29 AM.Well, If you believed everything you heard about the Auckland housing market, you'd assume that for low income families home ownership is out of reach. Audio

7:13 AM.The issue of state housing is back in the spotlight with the Govt wanting to place more of what they call social housing in the hands of community providers. Audio

7:09 AM.The Government is set to proceed with its controversial plan to sell more State houses while expecting community providers and iwi to provide more social housing. Audio

11:52 AM.The All Blacks have left the mark on Soldier Field in Chicago 74 - 6. Alexander Bisley is a rugby and cultural writer for publications such as The Guardian, North and South, and The Lumiere Reader… Read more Audio

11:44 AM.Every two years the cliffs around Narrow Neck Beach in Auckland are decorated with some of the country's sculptures - everything from 3D art installations to lightworks to traditional stone sculpture.

11:28 AM.Vivienne Westwood has achieved a longevity in fashion unprecedented since Coco Chanel. Audio

11:10 AM.If you've ever been to Sydney - you may have seen - or perhaps even eaten - at a restaurant right oposite the opera house -called simply, 'Quay.' cited as one of the 50 Best restaurants in the World… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.What are the challenges, opportunities and threats facing young New Zealanders as they navigate their way towards 2030 - the year when the last of the baby boomers reach retirement age? Audio

9:40 AM.Pope Francis recently condemned capital punishment and life imprisonment as inhumane. This week on Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint, Wayne questions whether, when it comes to executions, the west has… Read more Audio