Sunday Morning Podcast Options

8:12 AM.Sally Round travels to Vanuatu to report on a US led aid mission that is part of re-engagement with the Pacific. Audio

11:05 AM.This week Ideas puts psychoanalysis on the couch. Audio

10:40 AM.Dunedin's been invaded by 48-Hour film makers. Audio

10:05 AM.'And the Band Played On' a book which chronicles the events leading to the sinking of the unsinkable ship a hundred years ago and the affects it had on the family of one of its victims; Christopher… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.David Bret's latest biographical muse is Elizabeth Taylor. Audio

9:05 AM.How a famous footballer's private life went public in spite of a so-called 'super-injuction'; a startling suicide story; the telethon on the TV news; a career-ending newspaper puzzle prank. Audio

8:35 AM.After a damning UN report on the final days of the Tamil Tiger resistance in Sri Lanka two years ago, Chris speaks with the advisor to the President of Sri Lanka on reconciliation with Tamils. Audio

8:07 AM.Chris Bramwell investigates public service cutbacks in the UK. Audio

9:52 AM.The Mediawatch team runs through the best of listeners' queries and comments, and updates recent stories and issues on Mediawatch. This month: over-egging Hone Harawira's comments; the burger… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Last year the government released it's first defence white paper in more than a decade. It's a comprehensive document that outlines the challenges and potential responses in a rapidly changing… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Michael C Ruppert is a one-off. He's an American author, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, investigative journalist and peak oil theorist. Until 2006 he published and edited From The… Read more Audio

9:42 AM.It's said that we all too often think and purchase with our hearts, not our heads. Is there any truth to that and, if so, how deeply embedded is the tendency to set aside rationality and go with our… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Farmers' tax targeted in run-up to belt-tightening budget; Samoa's government vs TV3; big changes in newspaper production; 15 years of fighting for the rights of advertisers; news media spoilers on… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.There are some things we see, and some we don't, even when they're right under our noses and so obvious that it seems inexplicable that we could miss them. Why should this happen? Writer Margaret… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Insight investigates how the kiwifruit industry is coping after the outbreak of the vine disease, PSA, at the end of 2010. Audio

11:06 AM.Ideas explores the growing competition for the hearts and minds, and some might say UN votes, of Pacific Island nations with: Izzat Abdulhadi, Palestine's ambassador to Australia and New Zealand… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Dougal ponders a public case of agalmatophilia that ended in rejection, and arrest. Audio

10:10 AM.Tadesse Meskela is the manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Co-operative Union of Ethiopia. He represents 74,000 coffee farmers as he travels the world meeting coffee buyers who will pay his farmers a… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Bob Harvey has edited a book celebrating 100 years of Surf Life Saving New Zealand. He talks to former surf life saver Chris Laidlaw about the dramas and triumphs of those who volunteer their spare… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Fatty fast food fad sparks a media feeding frenzy; RNZ's cost-conscious Maori news overhaul; update on journalist Jon Stephenson; more mathematical media mess-ups. Audio

8:40 AM.Jay Winter is a professor of history at Yale University, and a specialist on World War I and its impact on the 20th century. He talks to Chris about aspects of silence - how it can be coerced, lethal… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Gay Cavill revisits the West Coast six months after the Pike River tragedy. Audio

11:05 AM.In August 2011 Sir Paul Reeves (1932 - 2011) was given a truly memorable send-off at a state funeral in Auckland. His was an extraordinary life by any standards. Ordained a deacon in 1958, Sir Paul… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.The taliban has become a label - a sort of terrorist talisman. But who, really, are the taliban? Why are they regarded with such revulsion outside Afghanistan, and what is their connection to Al… Read more Audio

9:43 AM.We are constantly reminded of how much creative talent exists in this country. The latest manifestation of that is a remarkable little house designed by a team from Victoria University. It's been… Read more Audio