Sunday Morning Podcast Options

7:30 AM.The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments - and updates recent stories from Mediawatch. This month: geographical goofs; journalists' conflicts of interest; cash for tweets… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Jan Wright, who's calling for greater protection for New Zealand's wild and scenic rivers. Audio

9:40 AM.Paul Warren from the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University discusses the over-use of the word "like" Audio

9:05 AM.Portraying parents' grief after tragedy in Doha; the Telecommunications Commissioner talks about key issues looming for the media-and his own job; the media's odd attitude to women and beer. Audio

8:25 AM.Carolyn and Simon Mark - brother and sister - on 50 years of Volunteer Service Abroad. Carolyn as recruitment manager and Simon as a volunteer and now a council member. Audio

11:10 AM.Today Ideas looks at libertarianism. What exactly is it? Audio

10:40 AM.Notes from the south. Audio

10:10 AM.Today on New Flags Flying, we feature the Solomons and the Cooks, two rather different societies. Audio

9:45 AM.New Zealander Lucy Tupu is an industrial designer, part Samoan in heritage, now living and working in New York City. Audio

9:10 AM.The campaign for public television gets party political; anguish over racial comments by an unusual political donor; more revelations about the controversial taxpayer-funded TV show 'The GC'; how New… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Dr Judy McGregor the Equal Opportunities Commissioner, is on the warpath over the pay and conditions of aged care workers. Audio

8:12 AM.Penny Mackay investigates the arguments for changing the laws around the use of cannabis Audio

11:06 AM.Dame Iritana Tawhiwhirangi began her teaching career relieving for Sylvia Ashton-Warner and went on to help found the kohanga reo movement. Chris Laidlaw talks to Dame Iritana, who is of Ngati Porou… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.During the Second World War, Lisbon was at the centre of attention. It was the only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers openly operated, was a temporary home to much of Europe's… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Terence O'Brien about the government's plans for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade as it aims to cut costs and change the organisation's culture. That announcement was followed by a series of… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.A media frenzy about a four year-old; the PM pans the press; The Herald’s editor on what will change as the paper prepares to go tabloid; is the ‘Save TVNZ7’ campaign flogging a dead horse? Audio

8:40 AM.Karen Nairn has lead a study on the impact of Rogernomics on the lives of young people born after 1984 and discovered the powerful effects of the neoliberal ideas. She talks to Chris about how… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Ian Telfer asks whether plans to get solo parents into paid jobs will work. Audio

11:05 AM.This week we hear from professor Noel Sharkey about the development of fully autonomous drones, blogger Yousef Aljamal about life under the drones in the Gaza strip, and defence analyst Paul Buchanan… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Historian and prolific writer talks about New Zealand in the 1820s. Audio

9:40 AM.Says rhetoric goes back to Aristotie who wrote the first serious book on the subject. Audio

9:05 AM.TV1+1 to replace TVNZ7; the burgeoning business of online endorsements; a bad geography apology; the push to make cyberspace more civil; a new university-sponsored news show - a model for more… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Telegraph Media Group Olympics Editor takes a look at preparations for the London Olympics. Audio

8:12 AM.Philippa Tolley considers how citizens private details are being treated as the government embraces new technologies. Audio