Sunday Morning Podcast Options

9:44 AM.Retired colonel Mike Dewar served several tours in Northern Ireland with the British army. He says sectarian feeling still runs high among the two tribes of Ulster, 15 years on from the Good Friday… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Will publishers' 'content partnerships' with advertisers mean more ads dressed up as news in our papers?; contrary claims about life in North Korea; an Australian service pointing out political 'pants… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Andrew Macdonald investigates the truth behind New Zealand's part in the Third Ypres offensive of 1917. Using documents from the time and accounts from servicemen, Andrew tells what really happened… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.John Gerritsen investigates the impact of National Standards 4 years on Audio

9:05 AM.TVNZ's deal with Sky City; the media influence on Labour's leadership contest; supporting freelance reporters in conflict hotspots; some surprising decisions on documentaries. Audio

10:06 AM.In the latest of our occasional Lived Philosophies series we're taking a look at communism. Dr Kerry Taylor will tell us about the history of revolutionary socialism in New Zealand; and Max Wilkinson… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Prudence Stone's Black Inc. One nation's identity, a global politic is described as 223 pages of critical thought set side-by-side with an eclectic array of colourful visual evidence. This book is a… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Charles Glass talks to Chris Laidlaw about a subject most people prefer not to discuss - desertion from the armed forces - a hidden history of World War Two. Audio

8:12 AM.Nick Butcher considers the funding and future of NZs five orchestrasf N Audio

11:40 AM.With the US poised to lead an attack on Syria, Wayne takes a critical look at the crisis, and the non-military options. Richard follows up with Andrew Levine, US author and former professor of… Read more Audio

11:12 AM.Peter Stanford says if we want to escape the taboo of acknowledging our mortality and to contemplate our own end, then graveyards offer a rare welcome. Peter talks to Richard about his book, How to… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.David Shearer has bowed out of the Labour leadership. So who is the front runner as his replacement and will the new democratic voting system within the party and its support base ensure the best… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.UAVs or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or drones as they’re commonly known, are suddenly everywhere. Conservationists and academics are using them to map our rivers; engineers surveyed the interior of the… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Christchurch poet Frankie McMillan won the National Flash Fiction Day competition this year. She talks to Richard about trying to make sense of the world through her playful, slightly subversive… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.The risks and rewards for freelance journalists reporting from war-torn Syria; the media picking Labour's next leader - even though candidates have barely begun their campaigns; a little local… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.1960's NZ music legend Peter Posa has just released his follow-up to 2012's platinum selling White Rabbit: The Very Best Of Peter Posa which spent six weeks at number one in the NZ album charts. The… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.As the Australian elections loom, Philippa Tolley looks at what's influencing voters. Audio

11:45 AM.New revelations of massive leaks of radioactively contaminated water around the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant heighten the concerns of international scientists. Audio

11:13 AM.This is the title of a book by Simon Pearson about the brains behind the escape from Stalag Luft Three. Roger Bushell single-handedly masterminded the biggest allied POW escape of the Second World… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.With all the fuss about the GCSB and David Shearer's resignation other important issues seem to have faded -- like the hard-line welfare reforms and the possibility that New Zealand is shirking any… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.The long history of African Americans seeking some form of redress for slavery. A look at reparations made to Maori to date and New Zealand's efforts placed in an international context. Audio

9:40 AM.Professor Peter Newman is a lead author for transport on the Inter-governmental Panel for Climate Change. He is a professor of sustainability at Curtin University in Perth. Audio

9:08 AM.Were the media up to speed on the on the controversial GCSB legislation passed in Parliament this week?; the BBC's top world news correspondent; and new moves from publishers to help companies get… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.The Director of the British Antarctic Survey, geologist Jane Francis talks to Chris Laidlaw about the use of fossil plants in identifying how climates have changed. Audio

8:12 AM.Annell Husband travels to the Solomons to consider stability as the regional security force sent in after conflict withdraws Audio