Sunday Morning Podcast Options

9:06 AM.All Whites draw but PM wins; Greens' main man slammed for pro-Tibet stand; two more views on the future of television; claims a radio presenter's been silenced by politics. Audio

8:40 AM.As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, Carl Safina, the founding president of Blue Ocean Institute, an ocean conservation organisation, talks to Chris about what went wrong, who is to… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Sue Ingram talks to those affected by dementia - of which Alzheimer's Disease is the most common type. Audio

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

11:06 AM.Ideas talks to Steve Tew, the CEO of the New Zealand Rugby Union; economist and Barcelona FC supporter Edward Hugh; and Sydney-based sports writer Spiro Zavos about the ownership of professional… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.David James Smiths' 'Young Mandela' goes beyond the Mandela we know today - the president, the elder statesman - and investigates Mandela's early years. Audio

9:42 AM.New Zealand is now around the fifth most unequal society in the Western world - a product, according to Richard Wilkinson, of changes to our society in the late-1980s that lead to the most rapid rise… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Hounding an under-fire MP; recruiting readers for newsgathering; Freeview and the digital switchover; the All Whites irritate cranky commentators. Audio

8:42 AM.Emma is making a film about the reign of Robert Mugabe, telling the story through her search for a childhood friend. She tells Chris about growing up white in Africa, the dream of post-independence… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Insight visits Fiji a year after the interim administration scrapped the constitution and introduced its new legal order. Audio

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

11:06 AM.Historian Tony Simpson is the author of 14 books including probably his best known work The Sugarbag Years - a collection of oral histories documenting the depression. A former trade unionist and… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Dougal reflects on the damage caused by cannabis-dealing gangs. Audio

10:06 AM.Ken Crispin is a former judge of the Australian Supreme Court. He talks to Chris Laidlaw about the strengths and weaknesses of the legal system, mandatory sentences, loss of rights due to the fear of… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.'Beyond the Scene: Landscape and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand' is edited by Janet Stephenson, Jacinta Ruru and Mick Abbott, and is published by Otago University Press. Audio

9:06 AM.Media frenzy over ministers' spending; a TV show hoaxing the news media; more views on TV's 50th anniversary; the end of the Independent. Audio

8:40 AM.Robert Patman is a Professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics, University of Otago. His book, 'Strategic Shortfall: The Somali Syndrome and the March to 9/11' is published by… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Belinda McCammon looks at the NZ honours system and asks whether changes are needed Audio

11:06 AM.Sanctions - humanitarian disaster or legitimate tool in international relations? Ideas talks to a passenger aboard the 'Rachel Corrie' - Denis Hallday, Israeli Ambassador to New Zealand - Shemi Tzur… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Michael Slater has been reading and re-reading Charles Dickens' work since he was 11 and he's drawn on a lifetime of study to produce his biography of the great writer. 'Charles Dickens', is published… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Associate Professor Paul Warren, Head of the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University talks about the language habit of 'high rising terminals' in which statements… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.TVNZ marks 50 years of television with a new channel of shows from the archives. But why is it only on pay TV? And will TVNZ be a public broadcaster in the future? Also: reporting from prison, and… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.World Vision NZ chief executive Chris Clarke has challenged the international community to improve its track record on providing medical help for the poorest people in the world. Audio

8:12 AM.Stephen Hewson asks whether the All Whites' participation in the Football World Cup will improve the status of the game here. Audio

7:00 PM.The online-only edition of Mediawatch, which tackles queries and comments from listeners and updates stories from recent editions of the radio programme. This month - bad maths in the news; budget… Read more Audio