Sunday Morning Podcast Options

9:05 AM.Did the media show the required restraint reporting the death of a TV celebrity? is the dark side of social media damaging our news media? and the fallout from a tragic media prank. Audio

8:40 AM.The Amnesty international photographer of the year talks about her travels documenting the journey of refugees in South Sudan. Audio

8:12 AM.Our Pacific Issues correspondent, Karen Mangnall, visits schools in Auckland that are bucking their low-decile status to raise Pasifika achievement, sometimes dramatically. Audio

11:45 AM.China has expressed "extreme concern" over a report that Japan has resisted pressure to return to the US a large quantity of weapons-grade plutonium. Wayne looks at growing regional fears that Japan… Read more Audio

11:12 AM.Ainadamar, Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov's Grammy Award-winning tribute to the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is playing as part of the New Zealand Festival. Richard talks to director Sara… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.Recent revelations that TVNZ premises were used for Labour Party meetings, political bias in the media is a hot topic. Audio

10:06 AM.Martin Phillipps of The Chills is one of our leading songwriters and a pioneer of what became known as the 'Dunedin Sound' - the sound that helped the Flying Nun label build an international… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Dr Sarah Baker is a lecturer in Culture and Context at the School of Design, Victoria University, and the author of Retro Style - Class, Gender and Design in the Home. She talks about what's retro… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.A conflict of interest at TVNZ revealed, and vested interests of some seizing on it; a survey of working journalists opinions - and their politics; a buyout in commercial radio and news of a new… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Earlier this month Debbie Bayer wrote a blog about addiction and the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. It was called 'Phillip Seymour Hoffman did not have choice or free will and neither do you'… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Philippa Tolley inivestigates the public service and whether its democratic role is being undermined Audio

11:45 AM.Wayne looks at the proliferation of slogans and strap-lines, many in traditional places for them while some have ventured into previously unnecessary and inappropriate places. Social critic and former… Read more Audio

11:12 AM.Hawai'ian born marine ecologist championing the plight of our oceans' apex predators, the shark. Audio

11:00 AM.Government moves to cancel passports of New Zealanders intending to join Syrian freedom fighters is meeting with some criticism. Audio

9:45 AM.Zoe George talks: cricket and the Basin Reserve; Wellington 7s, on field and off; Jesse Ryder, booze culture in sport; Halberg Awards, awkward, and; tennis prize money disparity, the gender divide. Audio

9:10 AM.The Schapelle Corby feeding frenzy; RNZ's boss on changes to key programmes, and plans for the future; reporters' plumbing, paving and shower curtains overshadow the Sochi Games, and; efforts to get… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.It's 31-years since Billy Bragg released his first album, 'Life's a Riot - Spy v Spy', and Richard Langston speaks with him (again) prior to his latest New Zealand visit with his new album, 'Tooth and… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.John Gerritsen considers the political spotlight on education and asks if it can do all that's being asked of it? Audio

12:00 PM.The online-only companion to Mediawatch devoted to queries and comments from listeners. This month: your views on choppers hovering over David Bain's wedding; The Herald's protest-free Waitangi Day… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.In recent weeks there have been Hitchcock retrospectives in a number of western cities. Though Hitchcock was far from political, an aspect of the great director's work neatly describes a… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Graeme Jeffries is an alternative New Zealand musician whose career has taken him to New York City, Berlin and even Moscow. Audio

11:08 AM.The ACT Party have changed their leadership. Two untried, untested new faces with little or no political experience have taken over. Will it make any difference to ACT's zero polling? Audio

10:45 AM.The Catalans are set to vote in November on their independence from Spain. Audio

10:25 AM.The Falkland Islands are determined to remain under British sovereignty. Mike Summers is a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands and was in New Zealand recently. Audio

10:10 AM.The question of an independent Scotland is heating up as September's referendum draws near. Richard McGregor is the chair of the Clan Gregor Society. Audio