Sunday Morning Podcast Options

11:05 AM.If the Maori Party is to move forward and retain it's membership base it has to modernise - it might be that it needs some new, younger faces in the leadership. Audio

10:06 AM.Ideas talks to Marion Shoard, author of This Land is Your Land and The Right to Roam, about public access to land and waterways in Britain and Scandinavia; Mark Neeson of the Walking Access… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Jacqueline Rowarth is Professor of Agribusiness at the University of Waikato. She says the controversy over the use of the chemical DCD in the dairy industry has been overblown and could have been… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Blunt assessments of Seven Sharp; Maori TV's new news boss; a voicemail gone viral makes national news; how PR people misread the Novopay nightmare; can new ways of backing US journalism work here? Audio

8:40 AM.Dan Nocera is the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy in Harvard's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. He is due in New Zealand next week for the MacDiarmid Institute's biennial… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Philippa Tolley explores the application of the blueprint for central Christchurch and asks if local people are still enthused. Audio

11:39 AM.The subject of this week's segment was shaped by The Enlightenment and has been described as the English Voltaire. Audio

11:15 AM.Labour List MP Carmen Hack is concerned about David Shearer's affordable homes promise but comes up with an idea that might just keep building costs down. Audio

11:05 AM.Former Speaker of House and soon to be New Zealand's High Commissioner to the Court of St James, Dr Smith speaks about his career in the media, as an academic, with the NZ Dairy Board and in New… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Ideas this week talks to Marama Davidson, David Geary and Clayton Thomas-Muller about the Idle No More movement which deals with the rights and identity of First Nations people, starting in Canada… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Associate Professor from the University of Auckland, Mark Costello talks about the discovering and naming the various species on Earth in order to stop them from going extinct. Audio

9:08 AM.The media's long goodbye to Sir Paul Holmes and the thoughts of a former colleague; Gareth Morgan on copping flak from cat lovers and football fans - and how he gets issues into the media and… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Of all the rugby formats Gordon Tietjens has been New Zealand's most successful coach. He speaks about that record of success and the road to Rio where 7's will make their Olympic debut. Audio

8:12 AM.Sally Round investigates if more needs to be done to help self harming teenagers Audio

11:40 AM.Opening in New Zealand this week is the controversial film Zero Dark Thirty the story of the tracking down of Osama Bin Laden. It's been criticised for its disturbing scenes of torture and for making… Read more Audio

11:15 AM.South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela is heading to New Zealand to play WOMAD Taranaki 2013. He tells Chris Laidlaw about his career, his obsession with music and its role in the downfall of… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Simon Rogers-Flaccid, National List MP, is trying to figure out what is actually required to be offered a ministerial portfolio in the next cabinet reshuffle. Audio

10:06 AM.'Another World is Possible' is the slogan of the World Social Forum an annual gathering of civil society organisations that began in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001. And it's the topic of an essay… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.As the new school year gets under way the headmaster of Wellington College, Roger Moses, thinks about the challenges ahead for schools and those who work and learn in the country's classrooms. Audio

9:10 AM.Mediawatch asks why critics are carping about a new TV news programme before it has even screened, and looks at some recent news-making interviews: One which took its subject by surprise because he… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Professor Patman talks about what's behind the rise of Islamist militants in Mali, and the critical response of the international community. Robert Patman is a Professor of International Relations at… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Penny MacKay investigates if the retail High St can survive the pressure of electronic shopping Audio

11:45 AM.The issue of gun control in the United States following the Sandy Hook school shootings. Audio

11:12 AM.Sunday Morning's regular commentator on the US elections, Jon Johansson, is joined by Professor Paul Morris to discuss the year in politics, religion, culture and society and to take a punt on what… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.The Treasury Christmas party guest list includes most of the major 'DtL targets from the past year - Winston Peters, NZ Cricket, Novopay, The PM, the Two Davids and more. Audio