Sunday Morning Podcast Options

10:30 AM.How much do we have to exercise, really, to be healthy? And does a lot of the research done in gyms pertain to men, not women? We're joined by our go-to exercise expert, New Zealander Dr Mandy… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.At some time or another most of us will enter a maze and try and get out of it again. There's an easy way to do that, believe it or not. Dr Katie Steckles is a Manchester-based mathematician who… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Originally from Pukekohe, Jack Boulton now lives in Orkney, completing a PhD on Transitional Engineering studying ways to move petrochemical companies away from carbon use. Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Minister's downfall triggers election speculation - and another resignation at RNZ. Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Experts are claiming dogs separated at eight to 12 weeks won't forget about their siblings for up to two years, and these same dogs often recognise their mothers beyond the two-year mark. Dr. Lucy… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.We all know people who wolf their food down, and probably we disapprove. But what if it's not actually all that bad? Dr Katherine Wu, a Harvard-trained microbiologist, and now a staff writer for the… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.An Oxford University study has concluded that if all the meat eaters in the UK cut down their ingestion of meat it would be the equivalent of taking 8 million cars off the road. Dr Ali Hill joins us… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.Dr. Jean Twenge is a Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, and the author of more than 140 scientific publications. She was last on RNZ six years ago discussing the less happy and… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Do you ever hear a snippet of a tune and before you know it, it's on rotate in your head, and you can't seem to shake it for hours... or days, or even weeks? You're not alone. This pesky phenomenon -… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.At the Easter of 1939, on the cusp of WW2 and when Aucklander Johnny Green was just nine years old, his mother gifted him an egg cup. It featured three ceramic chicks, contained a single chocolate… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Dr Stephanie Dowrick is an award-winning writer, psychotherapy researcher and coach, public speaker, workshop leader, interfaith minister and the founder of The Women's Press in London. Her latest… Read more Audio

9:38 AM.Whakatane-born Aaron Hodges' job as a fantasy writer allows him to live anywhere he wants. So in 2019, he moved to Buenos Aires to learn Spanish, and has been there ever since. Aaron calls home to… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.A triumph on a tragic day; political parties roll out crime control policies; creative interpretations of a pretty prosaic political poll. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.When All Blacks great Dan Carter retired from the game in 2021, he found no obvious career move at his doorstep. His new book, The Art of Winning: Ten Lessons in Leadership, Purpose and Potential… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.We first knew Tim Balme as an actor on TV series like Outrageous Fortune and The Almighty Johnsons, with roles in feature films as well, and on stage. But a decade ago now, Tim was made head writer… Read more Video, Audio

11:32 AM.We've spoken before on Sunday morning about cats, dogs and cows, and how they reveal their affection for us. Research is making great strides in analysing animals we're familiar with and ascertaining… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Simon Schama is a pre-eminent historian and the author of The Power of Art, Landscape and Memory and Citizens, the story of the French Revolution. He's a Professor of History and Art History at… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.The big movies of the year, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Mission Impossible are out now (or soon) and the BBC has teamed up with the Open University in the UK to advocate seeing these films in the cinema. The… Read more Audio

10:50 AM.King Charles' former butler Grant Harold has revealed the proper way to drink tea, if you want affect a regal manner. When you stir your tea with a spoon, if that's necessary, you shouldn't move the… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Arthur Edwards MBE is now 82 years of age. He has been a photographer of the royal family for longer than anyone else, certainly in a mainstream media capacity and has worked all that time for The Sun… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.RNZ Nights listeners may have heard Marc Leishman talking to this year's World Porridge Making Champion on Tuesday. Turns out one of the competition judges is a New Zealander. KJ Gilmour is an… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Warnings of a 'mortgage bomb' about to blow up; Australia puts big tech' under more pressure; Mary Holm's 25 years with readers and writers. Read more Audio

8:40 AM.If three's a crowd, it seems four is the ideal when it comes to conversation. Professor Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist at the University of Oxford has spent decades… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.We've all experienced those nights at one time or another, when sleep just won't come. Lying awake worrying about things we often have no control over that can doubtless best wait until the light of… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.We know that New Zealanders continue to feel the pain of the cost of living crisis. Back in March Research NZ polled on this, and now it has run the numbers again. Joining us is Research NZ managing… Read more Audio