Sunday Morning Podcast Options

8:12 AM.Sara Vui-talitu looks at the daily challenges journalists face in the Pacific. Audio

11:05 AM.This week Ideas takes a look at a popular, bottom-up approach to combatting climate change in the UK; it's called the 10:10 Campaign. A 10% reduction in carbon footprint by 2010 is the target for over… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Heresy, sedition, obsentiy... Dougal gives us a peak from Dunedin. Audio

10:10 AM.Chris speaks with this former Australian Foreign Affairs Minister about his post-political career and prominence in international nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. Audio

9:40 AM.He's a professor of creative arts at the University of Western England in Bristol and an eminent artist specialising in military landscapes. Professor Paul Gough is here in Aotearoa ~ New Zealand for… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.This week the Mediawatch team look at: assisted passage - companies encouraging media coverage by covering reporters' expenses; television news leaving little to the imagination and; the quest to get… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Chris speaks with the Director of the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin about the demise of his city's infamous wall back in 1989. What were the consequences for the two Germanies, Europe and… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Lois Williams looks at the primary grievance claims of the country's largest tribe: Ngapuhi Audio

11:10 AM.This week Ideas looks at Americans who have chosen to call New Zealand home. A poet, a blueberry farmer and the founder of a community newspaper tell us about their experiences both here and in… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Professor Robert Wade from the London School of Economics takes an eagle's eye view of the world economy. Audio

9:45 AM.Joe Van Belleghem discusses environmentally sustainable approaches to building. Audio

9:10 AM.TVNZ promo poses political problems; taking offence at what's in the news; the difficulties of sending up sensitive issues; 3D returns to TV, Hollywood . . . and Stratford. Audio

8:40 AM.Alex Fergusson is the presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament. Audio

8:12 AM.Rowan Quinn looks at how the change to a Super City will affect Aucklanders, from rubbish collection to rates. Audio

8:00 PM.The online-only companion to Radio New Zealand's Mediawatch programme, taking in comments from listeners and updating recent stories from the show. This month: Samoa's tsunami; covering climate change… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Business Roundtable executive director, the late Roger Kerr (1945-2011) spoke about the people and thinkers who influenced his ideas with Chris Laidlaw in 2009. The list is a mixture of the… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.How do you perceive New Zealand and being a New Zealander? What is it that makes the existence of Pakeha life different from that of Maori in terms of the Kiwi experience? John Andrews, scientist and… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.The Gold Standard is a currency system based around the premise that a paper-note's value is exchangeable for an agreed and predetermined volume of gold. Countries have universally retired this system… Read more Audio

9:00 AM.The prospect of wall-to-wall rugby on TV; talk radio boss Bill Francis on tough economic times and difficult personalities; belt-tightening at RNZ; scantily-sourced stories about male vanity. Audio

8:45 AM.Chris speaks with former schoolmate and adventurer Roger Lampen about his determination to overcome the adversity of a major stroke. Roger had been cycling across Tibet when when seized by the… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.David Reid looks at a change of gear in relations with Australia and the prospect, finally, of a single common market. Audio

11:05 AM.Chris and Jeremy Rose take a look at EnviroSchools and the growing awareness among students of our collective responsibility to the environment. This is tempered by the downturn in funding for such… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Dougal looks at how the Cook Islands deal with the threat of a tsunami. Audio

10:10 AM.Raewyn Peart talks about what's coastal history and evolution plus her new book, Castles Made of Sand. Audio

9:47 AM.Victoria University lexicographer Diane Bardsley talks to Chris Laidlaw about New Zealand English and the influence of globalised English on the words we use. Audio