Sunday Morning Podcast Options

11:12 AM.Chris Prowse has followed up his Tui Award-winning 2009 album Trouble on the Waterfront with a new 'alt history' CD which takes its inspiration from John A. Lee's writings about the notorious colonial… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Arguments for intensifying the density of housing tend to fall into two categories: affordability and putting a halt to urban sprawl. Ideas talks to two architects who advocate higher density housing… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Matthew Jockers created Godot, a computer programme that has analysed themes, styles and grammar of 3500 novels published between 1780 and 1900 and found that Jane Austen was the 'Eve' of 19th Century… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Being fast - but wrong; The Hobbit hits the headlines again; reform of the Official Information Act; reporting the victim of a viral video; why a deadly conflict nearby is scarcely mentioned in our… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Over the last three years the Marine Stewardship Council has been working with fishing industry companies in New Zealand to certify three major fisheries - hoki, tuna and whiting - and Rupert Howes… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Is New Zealand cricket in crisis or is it suffering just another dip on the performance rollercoaster? After a woeful test series against South Africa and what's widely regarded as the mis-management… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Italians are going to the polls, with a colourful list of candidates that includes disgraced former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The 76-year-old billionaire and media tycoon is attempting a… Read more Audio

11:15 AM.Sky City's not-too-transparent tendering process leading to a deal with the Govermenment where the Casino gets more pokies and Auckland gets a new convention centre. Audio

11:12 AM.In his new book, The World Until Yesterday, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond reveals how tribal societies offer a window into how our ancestors lived for millions of years and provide… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Fifty years after New Zealand had its last case of wild polio the world is on the cusp of eradicating the disease for good. D'Arcy Lunn of the Global Poverty Project talks about The End of Polio… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Professor John Loughhead is executive director of the UK Energy Research Centre. He was in New Zealand recently to attend The Energy Conference 2013, looking at energy innovation for a sustainable… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Slavery at sea - but not in the news; recycled rancour on the 'plastic princess'; upheaval at a big paper publisher; strange comments on our ethnic relations; why are broadcasters bothered about… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Ornithologist Glen Chilton has been traveling the world to investigate introduced species that are creating biological devastation in their new homes. He talks to Chris about the miserable wallabies… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Can character be taught? The UK Parliamentary Committee on Social Mobility is certain that it can be. Its new report proposes that character-building should be part of every school's curriculum… Read more Audio

11:12 AM.Sandra Janoff, consultant and psychologist, works with Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, communities and not-for-profit organisations. She is in New Zealand for the Fish In Future Search… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Today New Zealand First is in serious damage control after Richard Prosser suggests banning 'Wogistanis' from flying on Western airlines. Audio

10:05 AM.Serial entrepreneur Melissa Clark-Reynolds tells Chris Laidlaw about her start-up, MiniMonos.com – a website that aimed to harness the power of social media to raise a generation of eco-conscious… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Celebrated French archeologist and cave art specialist. Audio

9:05 AM.One MP's controversial comments - outrageous outburst or journalists' joke?; broadcasters band together to create a brand new watchdog; plug pulled on TV awards and are startling stories about wild… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Benny Wenda is a West Papua independence leader, Secretary General of Demmak (The Koteka Tribal Assembly), and founder of the Free West Papua Campaign. Audio

8:12 AM.Lois Williams explores the authority over water that is at the centre of Maori water claims. Audio

9:22 AM.The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments and updates recent stories from the programme. There are responses to the coverage of the death of Sir Paul Holmes; reaction to reports… Read more Audio

11:58 AM.What the listeners have to say on today's programme. Audio

11:40 AM.Today, Japan and China both lay claim to the supposedly oil-rich Sekaku Islands, and tensions are ratcheted up between the two Asian heavyweights. Wayne looks at the background to the dispute and its… Read more Audio

11:12 AM.As Iran celebrates 33 years since the Islamic revolution, that country's ambassador to New Zealand, Seyed Majid Tafreshi Khameneh, talks to Chris about international hostility towards Iran, progress… Read more Audio