Sunday Morning Podcast Options

10:06 AM.Perhaps best known for his role as Baldrick in the Blackadder series, Sir Tony Robinson is in New Zealand unearthing stories from World War I for a new television series. We speak to him about this… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Australia's review of its Vilification Act has brought Muslim sensitivities back into the headlines, along with all the usual stereotypes. Wayne takes a timely look at the little-known strand of… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Geoff Robinson leaves Morning Report - and the shake-up that created the programme in 1975; April Fool hoaxes, a TV comedy turnaround, new recommendations for reporting suicide; fallout from an… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.This month, on Radio New Zealand's online service The Wireless they're exploring the theme of 'value'. Max Rashbrooke, editor of 'Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis' is contributing to The Wireless's… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Up to half a million people crammed the streets around the presidential office building in Taipei last Sunday, in support of students that have been protesting for weeks, against the Governments trade… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Peter Fowler explores the push to build irrigation dams. Audio

7:50 AM.Tony Smith, senior sportswriter with Fairfax Media, based at The Press and with him in the Christchuch studio Angie Smit - NZ's top female middle-distance runner and a medals hope at the Glasgow… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.The biannual tsunami siren testing happens at the beginning and end of daylight savings in parts of New Zealand and that includes Northland, Auckland and Christchurch this morning. Audio

7:35 AM.In Fiji the long awaited election date has been announced - it will be Wednesday September the 17th 2014. From Suva is Dr Wadan Narsey - an independent economist and writer, and a former Professor of… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.The Red Cross says the final death toll after flash flooding on the Solomon Islands main island of Guadalcanal will be very high. New Zealand Red Cross aid worker Peter Winthrop joins us from Honiara.

7:24 AM.The polls are closed and votes will soon start to be counted in what's due to be the first democratic transfer of power in the country's history. Audio

7:10 AM.A United Nation's report has seen political parties embroiled in debate for the past week over how to respond to global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has dire predictions… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Now entering its fourth year, Grateful in April is a free month-long programme designed to help people feel good about what they already have in their life. The idea was launched as a social… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.Is the Mana Party seriously considering forming an alliance with Kim Dotcom's new Internet party? What do they have in common politically or philosophically? Audio

10:45 AM.The news keeps coming at us from more sources than ever before - but what is that doing to our minds? Alain de Botton's latest book analyses archetypal news stories, raising questions like: How come… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Richard James Burgess got his first musical break when he replaced Bruno Lawrence as drummer for the Quincy Conserve. The New Zealander was later credited with creating the phrase 'New Romantics' and… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.In the aftermath of Saturday's demonstrations against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), Wayne looks at its implications and Wallace follows up with the Nurses Organisation's Marilyn… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Mediawatch asks why the pollsters reckon it's time to improve political polls - and the media's reporting of their results. Also: The print media watchdog embraces bloggers; Maori TV picks a… Read more Audio

8:39 AM.New Zealand's state houses from the 1930s and 1940s were built modestly and built to last. They symbolised egalitarian values, and the importance of family and community. Bill McKay talks to Wallace… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Todd Niall explores if Auckland's housing market is on the verge of change. Audio

7:46 AM.Zoe Ferguson and Iain O'Brien join Wallace for a discussion on the big fixtures of the weekend, the Cricket T20 World Cup, and The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews considering allowing women… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.The Australian government is looking to more Pacific Island nations for help to "shoulder the burden" of the country's asylum seeker issue. This comes amid ongoing problems at the existing asylum… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.Soon the polls will open in Afghanistan and the country will choose a new President. It'll be an important term, as foreign troops prepare to pull out by the end of the year. Former Labour Minister… Read more Audio

7:08 AM.The Problem Gambling Foundation fears public health initiatives to prevent gambling harm will cease once its contract with the Ministry of Health ends in June. Professor Peter Adams and Associate… Read more Audio