Sunday Morning Podcast Options

10:10 AM.This week Ideas looks at the future of publishing in New Zealand. Audio

9:40 AM.Gus Roxburgh is the creator and presenter of the TV series Wild about NZ. Audio

9:10 AM.Are the media to blame if people say they don't know enough to vote in their local elections? How far do they go giving opinions on candidates? How helpful are polls published during voting? Also -… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Dame Fiona Kidman's book The Infinite Air is a fictionalised reconstruction of the extraordinary life of Jean Batten. Audio

8:12 AM.Fiji has promised elections in 2014 and Sally Round considers if it's new diplomatic ties will endure. Audio

11:47 AM.The ancient belief that there's a causal connection between heavenly bodies and human happenings seems to be enjoying heightened interest on the internet and elsewhere. Wayne takes an unstarry-eyed… Read more Audio

11:12 AM.Russian-born Sergei Plekhanov is Associate Professor of political science at York University in Toronto, Canada, and a former Deputy Director of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies in Russia… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.As the renovated and newly amicable David Cunliffe assembles his shadow cabinet of Labour spokespersons some are wondering why they missed out on a place. Audio

10:06 AM.Ideas takes a look at how New Zealand presents itself to the world and asks, has the time come for a re-think of our brand? Historian Richard Wolfe talks to Jeremy Rose about New Zealand's earliest… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Keith Newman's new book, 'Beyond Betrayal', delves into New Zealand's pioneering history, and asks why promising partnerships descended into decades of distrust. After the Treaty of Waitangi was… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.The media debates 'choking' as the America's Cup slipped away; the fallout from a partisan pundit calling Labour's leader a liar; have women won the war for a fair shake in the media? Audio

8:40 AM.Dr Jon Johansson discuss what's ahead in politics as we approach the general election in 2014; the new Labour leadership; and challenges facing the National-led government. Audio

8:12 AM.Lorna Perry investigates the state of the main snapper fishery as the new fishing year approaches. Audio

11:40 AM.A new World Health Organisation report into alleged high Iraqi incidences of cancer, caused by radioactivity from depleted uranium shells used in the most recent Gulf War, finds no cause for alarm… Read more Audio

11:15 AM.State subsidy is no longer a dirty word... if it's going to a major corporate is the new truth for Simon Rogers Flaccid. Audio

11:10 AM.Journalist and writer on the activism behind taking umbrage with his book On Offence: The Politics of Indignation. Audio

10:06 AM.Ideas dedicates this hour to the unfolding tragedy in Syria and attempts to give some context to this complex conflict: Professor William Harris - the author of four books on the Middle East - talks… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Writer who chronicles the career of architect Robert Lawson, the man responsible for much of the historic skyline of Dunedin. Audio

9:08 AM.Overheated America's Cup coverage; Labour's leadership outcome; survival strategies for newspapers discussed across the ditch; ads that ended up in the news - and a rude remark that didn't. Audio

8:40 AM.Forensic anthropologist and writer of the best-selling series Bones. Audio

8:12 AM.Health Correspondent, Karen Brown, looks at organ donation, primarily regarding kidneys, and transplantation. Audio

11:40 AM.Wayne discusses the implications of the Russian initiative to get Syria to agree to surrender its chemical weapon stockpile. He also takes a critical look at mainstream media coverage of the Syrian… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.New Zealand's top brain scientist, Professor Richard Faull ONZM, directs the Centre for Brain Research at the University of Auckland, with a 300-strong team of researchers. He is recognised… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.There are some concerns about the quality and intention of some programming on Maori Television and about its processes for appointing a new CEO. Audio

10:07 AM.Duncan Green, the author of From Poverty to Power, speaks to Chris Laidlaw about his belief that active citizenship is the key to reversing the world's growing inequalities; UnionAID's Helen Wilson… Read more Audio