Sunday Morning Podcast Options

9:45 AM.We'll listen to some audio from Chris Laidlaw's first programme on June 10, 2001, then Chris talks to Dr VerBon Cheung, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Self and Identity at the… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.A look back at the best and worst of the media in 2013. Audio

8:40 AM.A few years ago Chris interviewed evolutionary biologist and popular atheist Richard Dawkins, who talked about what he describes as the myth of religion in the face of the certainty of science. Bishop… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Olivia Wix considers moves to protect the Ross Sea and asks if a sanctuary will ever be agreed on Audio

11:36 AM.This week Wayne takes some characteristically fresh perspectives on the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela, and Finlay follows up with Melbourne-based academic Binoy Kampmark. Audio

11:13 AM.News last month that three women had been held as slaves in London for 30 years reminded many of us that slavery has not gone away. Baroness Caroline Cox knows this - she's a campaigner against… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.Set at the WINZ office Christmas party where WINZ is congratulating itself on a successful year addressing child poverty. Audio

10:06 AM.A few weeks back we heard from three of the country's youngest politicians, and this week we're speaking to three young people who are no less passionate about bringing about change through political… Read more Audio

9:46 AM.Jacques Brel had a major influence on modern music. His songs have been covered by legends like Leonard Cohen, David Bowie and Nina Simone. Jennifer Ward-Lealand is singing in Brel - an interpretation… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Just two countries have a saltire cross on their flags and poet and novelist Kei Miller lives between them. From Jamaica, Kei Miller now teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow, and… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Jane Patterson returns from Sri Lanka and asks if NZ was right to attend the Commonwealth Heads meeting. Audio

8:10 AM.Mediawatch talks to a journalist who's lifted the lid on the loose and lazy use of language in the media. But does it really matter as long as the meaning is clear? And why is the Oxford English… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Wayne looks at why mass protests are no longer part of our political landscape. Chris follows up with former Auckland University academic, Tony Watkins. Audio

11:12 AM.Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully talks about the range of this job. Audio

11:00 AM.John Banks is, at last, preparing to depart the scene over the anonymous donations issue. The Nationals must be starting to worry about their choices for coalition partners. Audio

10:06 AM.In this Ideas hour we look at the pressure on our rivers. The big issue is water quality - the impact of urban wastewater and agricultural runoff on waterways. Audio

9:40 AM.Colin Duriez talks about the real CS Lewis and the friendships and events that shaped the man and his writing. Audio

9:05 AM.A major publisher's magazine makes foreign stories look local; broadcasters break the news of Mandela's death; The Press angers the Irish with STD claims; new money fuels new news media in Australia… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Ivan Sutherland was a scholar, cultural anthropologist and social activist who was committed to a bicultural New Zealand. Audio

8:12 AM.Patrick O'Meara investigates the pluses and pitfalls of the planned Trans Pacific Partnership. Audio

11:40 AM.Adolf Hitler, who assumed power early in 1933, passed a law on December 1 of that year safeguarding the unity of the party and the state. Eighty years on, Wayne Brittenden looks at the internationally… Read more Audio

11:13 AM.Barry Coates, Oxfam's New Zealand Executive Director since September 2003 has announced that he will leave the organisation in March next year, then run as a Green Party candidate. Barry talks to… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.Is NZ Football run like a suburban tennis club or a highly professional outfit producing results we can all be proud of? Audio

10:08 AM.In the latest of our occasional series where prominent New Zealanders talk about the individuals, writers and thinkers who have shaped their outlook on the world, Chris Laidlaw talks to cartoonist and… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Over 30% of the Fijian population has diabetes, and the disease is a growing problem throughout the Pacific. Dr Biu Sikivou is Associate Director of the Pacific Eye Institute in Fiji & Lead… Read more Audio