Sunday Morning Podcast Options

11:06 AM.The Bugman, naturalist, columnist and broadcaster, Ruud Kleinpaste takes a look all the creepie-crawlies lurking in out carpets, pantries and bedrooms. Read more Audio

10:39 AM.Tamaki Makaurau-based, husband-wife duo Ra Charmian introduce us to their new single, 'Papatuanuku He Ataahua Koe' - which is a stunning te reo Maori interpretation of 'What a Wonderful World'. Band… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Award-winning broadcaster, host of the BBC television series Grand Designs, writer, environmentalist, and storyteller, Kevin McCloud is coming to New Zealand in February for a series of special… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.Dr Michelle Wong a cosmetic chemist and science educator with a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and runs the popular Lab Muffin Beauty Science blog. She joined us last week to talk about the science of… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Award-winning food writer, author of Homecooked: Seasonal Recipes for Every Day and RNZ's Lifestyle & Entertainment editor, Lucy Corry, the Kitchenmaid has some has some excellent ideas for your… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Calling Home this morning is Brendon Johnston in the far North of Finland just below the arctic circle in a place called Ranua. Brendon lives with his partner Natalie, their two boys, and a howl of… Read more Audio

6:05 PM.US journalist, novelist and playwright George Packer may be best known for his work in the New Yorker and The Atlantic regarding U.S. foreign policy, and for his book The Assassins' Gate: America in… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Dozens of elite Russians have died in suspicious circumstances over the past few years in what the Sydney Morning Herald has called "a global murder mystery." Waikato University's International Law… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Jeffrey Halley is a Kiwi in Jakarta and Singapore who until recently was the senior market analyst for Asia Pacific for the OANDA corporation, with his analysis regularly sought by Bloomberg, the BBC… Read more Audio

10:25 AM.Last year, billionaire Elon Musk tweeted that population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming. It is a trend occurring in many countries and… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Most of us have watched the viral video from St Andrew's College, Christchurch prizegiving ceremony and the students' cover of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. Lead guitarist Mia Frazer joins us to… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.The international consensus is that one in ten people who get Covid will feel long-lasting effects. That would mean that of the 900 or so cases being reported every day in this resurgence we're… Read more Audio

Fewer wrinkles, a fresher complexion and younger skin are sought by many, but what’s behind beauty industry hype?  Dr Michelle Wong is a science communicator who runs the popular Lab Muffin Beauty… Read more Audio

Calling Home this morning is Sarah Davison in Barcelona. People with long memories may remember her as Fiona Dalgleish who once starred in the popular TV show Country GP. Sarah went to Rangi Ruru… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Martyn Craddock is the chief executive of United St Saviour's, the charity behind Appleby Blue, a new block of social housing for over-65s in Southwark, South London that's hoping to re-shape how we… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.All Blacks Mental Skills Coach Gilbert Enoka, is moving on to on new pastures.  Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Sibling planespotters Peter and Joshua Solorzano of hit YouTube channel L.A Flights happen to do their thing at the fourth-busiest airport in the world, LAX. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Sebastian Faulks, worldwide bestselling author of Birdsong, is back with a new thriller, inspired, he tells us by a tweet from Richard Dawkins.  Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Victoria University of Wellington Professor of Psychology, Dr Marc Wilson, joins us once again. Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Claims of media 'bribery' derail new government on day one; politics shows off air just as politics hots up; mayor under pressure after rumour-based reports. Read more Audio

8:40 AM.After our chat with Dr Ali Hill from Otago University's Department of Human Nutrition last week, many of you got in touch with questions.  Read more Audio

8:10 AM.If there was life on other planets, what might it look like, and would they even bother coming to Earth?  Read more Audio

11:13 AM.'I am Pilgrim' was a worldwide bestseller in 2013 and THE Christmas present of the year. Nine years later Terry Hayes, now 72, is gifting his readers a follow up: 'The Year of the Locust'. He returns… Read more Audio