Sunday Morning Podcast Options

11:58 AM.What you, the listeners, say on the ideas and issues that have appeared in the programme. Audio

11:06 AM.Professor James Belich was known for his revisionist histories of the New Zealand wars and his two-volume history of New Zealand. But his 2011 work, Replenishing the Earth, took on a much larger… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Vaughan Turekian is director of the US Center for Science Diplomacy, and is in New Zealand for the University of Otago's annual Foreign Policy School. He speaks about science diplomacy's role in… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.The future for public television in New Zealand; the reporting of one man's extraordinary comments about women at work. Audio

8:40 AM.Sharan Burrow is General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation. She talks to Chris about the challenges facing workers in the global economic crisis, issues around the Arab Spring… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.It has been 24 years since the All Blacks last won the Rugby World Cup. Will hosting the event give a homefield advantage – or just increase the pressure? Insight considers how the All Blacks will… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.What you, the listeners, say on the ideas and issues that have appeared in the programme. Audio

11:06 AM.Ideas talks to three of the World Economics Association founding members: Ha Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism; former World Bank economist and professor of… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Dougal Stevenson has a cautionary tale with a soggy end for would-be robbers and bullies. Audio

10:10 AM.Wolfram Aichele was nine years old when Hitler came to power. He was drafted in to fight for the regime and survived to tell the extraordinary tale to his son-in-law Giles Milton. Giles has now… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Jenny Hayward-Jones is head of the Myer Foundation Melanesian programme at the prestigious Lowy Institute. She tells Chris Laidlaw that she accepts the tough love approach hasn't worked with Fiji, and… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.The media response to Canterbury's latest quakes; threats of a World Cup media boycott; renowned war photographer Tim Page on the state of the art today; a plan to step up scrutiny of statistics in… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.After more major earthquakes in Christchurch this week, Bishop Victoria Matthews fears her clergy, and the people, are facing 'exaustion of the spirit'. She says it's important to keep alive hope, and… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Philippa Tolley investigates Health Select Committee recommendations to improve immunisation rates. Audio

10:06 AM.Environment Minister Nick Smith recently announced new laws to manage the environmental effects of activities like petroleum exploration and mining within New Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Michael King was one of New Zealand's most popular and respected historians. 'The Silence Beyond' is a personal collection of King's writings. His daughter Rachael has written an introduction to the… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Did Darren Hughes get fair treatment in the media?; former Australian finance minister Lindsay Tanner on the news media's sideshow syndrome; the fallout from Murray Deaker's 'N-bomb'. Audio

8:40 AM.Owen Marshall likens the story of the once-grand Dunedin family, the Larnachs, to a Shakespearian tragedy - involving high ambition, grand achievement, and a stunning fall. Marshall's new book is… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Kevin Ikin investigates the turn around in coarse wool prices and asks if they will last. Audio

11:10 AM.The Ideas team examines the predicted commodity food price increase of 100% over the next twenty years. Audio

10:10 AM.Biographer and historian Mary S Lovell, famous for her account of the Mitford sisters, chronicles the life and times of a British political dynasty in her new book The Churchills. Audio

9:40 AM.The quirks, curiosities, nooks and crannies of language, particularly phonetics. Audio

9:08 AM.How real is reality TV when politicians are stars?; the contrasting coverage of two women whose online relationships went badly wrong; a surprising suggestion from government and; making a mountain… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.After last week's guest, Dr Rajiva Wijesinha, gave a Sri Lankan government point of view on the closing two years of that country's civil conflict, Wellington Tamil community spokesman Mani… Read more Audio