Sunday Morning Podcast Options

7:45 AM.Sir Mark talks about a bizarre day at Badminton with an unprecedented amount of retirees, eliminations and withdrawals, and a poor result for the New Zealand team. Audio

7:41 AM.The New Zealand Olympic Committee president Mike Stanley talks about our team's ongoing fund requirement given the current status of a 34% shortfall in the desired budget. Audio

7:36 AM.Fast food workers in the US are planning to strike, and a young New Zealander is at the centre of the action, in the heart of capitalism's Big Apple. Audio

7:25 AM.It's election day in the French territory and Radio New Zealand International's Walter Zweifel looks at the political options given the newly elected government will be tasked with preparing an… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.Moscow correspondent on the region of Donetsk, and its poll on whether to stay in Ukraine or join Russia. Audio

7:10 AM.Political reporter Liz Banas on the National Party's Cabinet Club, and Professor Andrew Geddis on sourcing electoral funds. Audio

11:50 AM.Auckland teacher Nicola Fahey hopes to go to Mars - she has been shortlisted from over 200,000 applicants to settle on the planet as part of a plan called Mars One, which hopes to establish a colony… Read more Audio

11:38 AM.Ferran Adria is probably best known for his restaurant El Bulli in Spain. He changed the face of modern dining by taking ordinary dishes and transforming them to unleash radically different tastes and… Read more Audio

11:12 AM.NZ's first professor in neurosurgery, Belgian brain researcher and neurosurgeon Dirk de Ridder, was lured to NZ this year to head up the inaugural Neurological Foundation chair at the University of… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.There have been a couple of bumps in the road to the election for the Nationals this week - the about face on the legal highs legislation, and Maurice Williamson's resignation. Audio

10:40 AM.Eating disorder support services are under pressure as the number of people seeking help has spiked in the past year, and one services says a shortage of specialists is a problem that needs… Read more Audio

10:20 AM.UK-born Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism project, a collection of over 10,000 women's daily experiences of gender inequality. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.A conversation with pastor Mike Hercock about 'A Different Conversation' - an event taking place in Wellington next week that will give church leaders, doctors, and mental health specialists a chance… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.In light of Middle East envoy Tony Blair's recent keynote speech on why the region is important, Wayne takes a critical look at Blair's perspectives and the West's selective moratlity on human rights… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Media getting credit - and the blame - for the demise of legal highs; the wrong Jono; a startling stuff-up in Australia; papers plucking power poles, football players and a prince's peach-fuzz from… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.New Zealand Music Month kicked off on Thursday, but one critic says we should ditch the annual promotion, saying it reduces our national musical voice and is no longer relevant. Wallace talks to music… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Philippa Tolley explores whether the tax system needs a revamp to meet the challenges of the future. Audio

7:50 AM.Tony Smith and Dave Hewett discuss rugby, including the taming of the Brumbies by the Crusaders. Audio

7:30 AM.Exxon Mobil's NZ$22 billion LNG project in Papua New Guinea has started production ahead of schedule. There's an expectation that becoming a major gas exporter will bring widespread benefits and… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.Labour's Kiwisaver policy was released this week to a range of reactions. Wallace asked Labour leader David Cunliffe what other countries use the proposed Kiwisaver/Reserve Bank-type mechanism, as… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Nicky Hager relates ANZAC Day commemorations to his most recent book 'Other Peoples Wars: New Zealand in Afghanistan, Iraq and the War on Terror'. Audio

11:30 AM.Writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology Andrew Solomon talks about his latest book 'Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity', which won the National Book… Read more Audio

11:13 AM.The author of the Samuel Johnson prize winning book 'Mao's Great Famine', Frank Dikotter has followed up with 'The Tragedy of Liberation - A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945 - 1957'. He is in… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.The road to the elections is getting rougher and rougher. The departure of Shane Jones, apparently head-hunted by Murray McCully from the Nationals, leaves a big pothole for Labour. Audio

10:39 AM.Lucy Hughes Hallett's first book is a biography of a late 19th century writer and artist Gabrielle D'Annunzio, whose ultra-right nationalist principles directly inspired Italian fascism. 'The Pike… Read more Audio