Sunday Morning Podcast Options

8:40 AM.Talks about Amnesty International's report on illegal detention and enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka. Audio

8:12 AM.Education Correspondent, John Gerritsen, investigates the government's efforts to target those missing early childhood education Audio

9:00 PM.The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments - and updates recent stories from Mediawatch. This month: Reaction to revelations about Sky City's media clients; anguish over public… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.From hobnobbing with Hollywood moguls as a child to championing the rights of pets as the SPCA’s executive director, Bob Kerridge has, by anyone’s standards, had an extraordinary life. Here he is in… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Historian Paul Preston calls the Iberian Civil War the Spanish Holocaust and tells Chris that little has previously been revealed about the horror that happened in Spain, and the consequences that… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Dr Lawrence Jones is Director of Regulatory Affairs at Alstom Grid in the USA. Alstom is a global energy and transport company and a major provider of electricity grid technology. Audio

9:08 AM.A new subscription service offering TV, movies - and competition?; the newsman gambling with his reputation; a play questioning media manipulation in the digital age; good news buried by bad news… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Aleksander Kwasniewski was President of Poland between 1995 and 2005. He was a student in Gdansk during the rise of the Solidarity movement and he later beat Lech Walesa in presidential elections. He… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Manu Taria Rio exhibited his clay kawauwau, or Maori flutes, at Wellington's Soup Kitchen last week and Turkish immigrant Nas Kavas can be found most days displaying his ink sketches on the pavement… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Dougal empties the paddling pool and wonders what happened to summer in Dunedin. Audio

10:06 AM.Jonathan Watts is the Guardian's Asia environment correspondent and author of the book When a Billion Chinese Jump. He talks to Chris about China's environmental problems and says that the rest of the… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.When is a word really a word? When it's in the dictionary? How does it get there? Laurie Bauer, Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University, says dictionaries are out of date the moment they are… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Commercial deals for media personalities - the compromises and conflicts of interest they can create; Finland's fury over a minister's mischief. Audio

8:40 AM.They had benign names like Cherry Farm and Sunnyside, but for many they were simply known as 'the Bins' - New Zealand's psychiatric hospitals. Filmmaker Jim Marbrook has taken a group of survivors… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Naomi Mitchell investigates the changing landscape of dairy farm ownership. Audio

11:15 AM.The Government has decided on more cutbacks to DoC's staffing. How will DoCs cope? Some very creative thinking is necessary if we are to avoid compromising the care of our natural environment. Audio

11:05 AM.This week the Ideas team look at taxation - a way to a utopian society? Oxfam New Zealand senior policy advisor Sarah Meads and CTU economist Bill Rosenberg make the case for a tobin - or Robin Hood -… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.We look at the journey to post-colonial status in the South Pacific as the various island groups examine concepts of self-determination and nationhood. This week the Chief Executive of New Zealand's… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.New Zealanders in their self imposed diaspora are often very successful in their global endeavours. Mark Kruse is no exception; he's a Professor of Physics at Duke University, North Carolina, and is… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.The writing on the wall for evening papers; blogging broadcasters - and broadcasting bloggers; a controversial new law; Marmageddon: the end of the world - or just the media gone mad? Audio

8:40 AM.Senior Consultant to Education International, the global federation of teachers unions, David Robinson is very unhappy at the way universities are being refocused for the purposes of commercial… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Teresa Cowie revisits six babies in the long term study Growing Up in NZ as the second round of information is released Audio

11:05 AM.This week Ideas looks at the controversial phenomenon of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking as it is dramatically known. Audio

10:40 AM.Dougal is hoping a charity art auction will lift spirits dampened by the city council’s plan to bail out the Otago Rugby Union. Audio

10:05 AM.Richard Bourne, British political scientist, on the descent into darkness in Zimbabwe, and the factors he thinks triggered this. Audio