Sunday Morning Podcast Options

8:12 AM.Penny Mackay looks at the future for children with special education needs. Audio

8:12 AM.Penny Mackay looks at the future for children with special education needs. Audio

11:05 AM.The tragic death of Lieutenant Timothy O'Donnell earlier this week has brought home to New Zealanders just how deadly the Taliban's roadside bombing campaign has become. We talk to Victoria University… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.The Right Honourable Lord Howell of Guildford is Minister of State in the UK government with responsibilities for foreign affairs, the Commonwealth and international energy policy. He's the first… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Natural history writer Neville Peat has been working on the life story of an ocean, and today tells the story of the Tasman Sea from its origins 85 million years ago. Audio

9:06 AM.Looking again at media coverage of conflict in the Middle East and why it is more closely contested than any other issue; how TV3 played fast and loose with people's privacy; and a programme which… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Maria Rost Rublee is a poitical studies lecturer at Auckland University and an expert on political psychology. She talks about why some countries choose nuclear restraint and why others think nukes… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Insight looks at the extent of rorts and questionable behaviour in the way pokie money is being used. Audio

11:05 AM.This week Ideas explores the growing trend towards utility cycling. Audio

10:40 AM.Dougal brings us his notes from the south. Audio

10:06 AM.A man who is passionate about the preservation and promotion of Te Reo. Audio

9:40 AM.Professor of Linguistics Laurie Bauer unpicks the structure of our language. Audio

9:05 AM.The fallout from calling a singing star 'retarded' and the international issue under greater scrutiny than any other - conflict in the Middle East. Audio

8:40 AM.Phillip Toledano joins us to talk about his photographic essay 'Days with my Father'. Audio

8:12 AM.Nigel Stirling looks at the issue of foreign investment amid the debate about Chinese companies bidding for NZ dairy farms. Audio

11:06 AM.Professor of Economics at Bologna University Stefano Zamagni tells Ideas that it's no coincidence that the cooperatives of Emilia Romagna province - particularly the many worker-owned cooperatives… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.Extended Stefano Zamagni interview. Audio

10:58 AM.What you, the listeners, say on the ideas and issues that have appeared in the programme. Audio

10:06 AM.Satu Limaye, the director of the East-West Centre in Washington DC, assesses US-Asia-Pacific relations during the Obama administration, and looks at strategic trends in the Asia-Pacific, and their… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Green Party MP Dr Kennedy Graham discusses his Public Finance (Sustainable Development Indicators) Amendment Bill - a member's Bill sparked by his passion for ecological economics. Audio

9:06 AM.Rugby writer's rant sparks debate on rip-off rates; an outsider's view of our papers; a TV veteran set to depart; who's creating political news? Audio

8:40 AM.Dr Ed Blakely was the controversial clean-up Czar who co-ordinated the recovery programme after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Dr Blakely is in New Zealand advising on ways to fund urban… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Karen Brown investigates efforts to counter binge drinking in the UK Audio

11:05 AM.Today on Ideas we hear from Marilyn Waring about the individuals, writers and philosophers who have influenced her ideas, and we hear how the realities of rural New Zealand shaped her early feminism.

10:40 AM.Dougal Stevenson has been soaking up the vitamin D and pondering the fate of the Stuart statue in Dunedin. Audio