Sunday Morning Podcast Options

8:12 AM.It's all but a year since the tragedy at Paritutu Rock - Juliet Larkin asks if lessons in safety have been learnt. Audio

11:40 AM.Last Tuesday's revelation that the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant is leaking contaminated water into the ocean and that the Japanese government has known about the spillage, confirms the fears… Read more Audio

11:12 AM.Moty Cristal, is an Israeli-born, Harvard-trained international crisis negotiator. He talks about his work, including negotiating with Palestinians during the 2002 siege at the Nativity Church in… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.Peter Dunne and John Key prove that politics is indeed the art of compromise. Audio

10:05 AM.New Zealand spends $15 billion a year on health - more than education, and transport and communications combined. So have we got our priorities right and should the public have more say in how the… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.France's ambassador to New Zealand, Francis Etienne, is preparing for his next posting. He talks about rugby, the repatriation of Toi Moko, politics in France, and where to next in his career. Audio

9:05 AM.A survey suggesting we don't trust our media, the scary but spiritual moment when the big quake hit last weekend, the wall-to-wall coverage of the birth of a new prince, how a TV talent show trumped… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Former captain Farah Palmer talks about the women's game and the NZRU's apparent resistance to having a woman on its board. Audio

8:12 AM.Riskier mortgages could be curtailed by the Reserve Bank. Philippa Tolley asks if this is a good move or could it backfire Audio

11:40 AM.With a number of commercial interests receiving gold mining exploration or prospecting permits on Coromandel's Schedule 4 land where gold mining's prohibited, Wayne looks at the industry at home and… Read more Audio

11:12 AM.Nick Cater is a senior editor at The Australian. Born in Britain, he fell in love with the idea of Australia at an early age. He made the decision to migrate while on assignment for the BBC to cover… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.Will the recent welfare reforms even things out and incentivise beneficiaries to put more effort into getting jobs, or will it just add insult to injury for genuine beneficiaries with limited… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Ideas talks to three explorers on the search for Utopia – Professor Eric Olin Wright, the president of the American Sociological Society and author of Envisioning Real Utopias; Professor Lyman Tower… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Tibetan filmmaker whose documentary 'Who will be a Gurkha' vividly portrays the trials and tribulations of young Nepalese men volunteering to join this elite British army unit. Audio

9:09 AM.An extraordinary court case pitting a journalist against the armed forces; foreign spellings online; a yarn from the archives showing snooping on phone calls is nothing new. Audio

8:40 AM.Graham Hoyland talks to Chris Laidlaw about his book recounting his perspective on the demise of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine near the summit of Everest in 1924. Audio

8:12 AM.The Family Court is being given a shake-up. The Justice Minister says it is well needed, but Anne Marie May asks if there are any losers. Audio

11:40 AM.Wayne Brittenden takes an historic gaze back through some of his inherited cookbooks and finds it's not just the recipes that are reminiscent of another time. Dr Peter Lineham from Massey University's… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Acting director for the OECD's education directorate, looks at raw data which demonstrates New Zealand's relative success in the global standings of student achievement. Audio

11:00 AM.The Labour Party leaders seem a bit unfocussed. Could it be that Labour's historically 'robust' internal democratic processes simply make them appear indecisive? Audio

10:06 AM.Ideas today explores the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Prominent South African environmentalist Marlene Laros, and the influential strategist from the Tyndall Centre for Climate… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Sexism at Wimbledon; a premature prediction of a political coup; the media's role in rolling an Aussie leader, and; fears and hopes for the future of in-depth journalism in the digital age. Audio

8:40 AM.International Crisis Group member and Indonesia resident, Sidney Jones looks at the potential for long term democracy in the world's most populace Moslem nation. Audio

8:12 AM.The NZ dollar is still at an historically high level - Patrick O'Meara considers whether this has been a help or hindrance. Audio

3:00 PM.The Mana Party and the Maori Party did not fare well in the recent Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election, coming second and third. Should they seriously consider joining forces? Audio