Sunday Morning Podcast Options

11:52 AM.Father's Day was first observed in NZ at St Matthew's Church, Auckland, St-Matthew-In-The-City now, in 1929, and it first appeared in commercial advertising the following year.  Reverend Dr Helen… Read more Audio

11:36 AM.Kiwi motor racing driver Liam Lawson chats about his career and chooses a song. Read more Audio

11:29 AM.On our My Current Song segment today, one of our great NZ voices and songwriters, Nadia Reid. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Loretta Houston-McMillan from Upper Hutt lives in Lesotho, she's been there for a long time running an early childhood education centre in the capital city, Maseru. Read more Audio

9:37 AM.Greg Bruce is a feature writer for the NZ Herald and his work's appeared in other well-known publications, and has been twice anthologised in collections. Greg speaks to Jim. Read more Audio

8:38 AM.Molecular nutritionist Dr Emma Beckett talks to Jim about coffee drinking. She's a senior lecturer in the food science and human nutrition school at Newcastle. Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Former UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak and current Foreign Secretary Liz Truss are vying to lead the Conservative party in the UK. Whoever wins will become Prime Minister, replacing Boris Johnson… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.Gregor Paul is one of our top rugby writers, widely-read in the NZ Herald, and the author of a number of books on rugby, including 'The Reign of King Henry', 'Black Obsession' and 'For the Love of the… Read more Audio

11:33 AM.For this morning Jim starts with research into that perennial topic of video gaming. Professor Marc Wilson from Victoria University's School of Psychology joins Jim to discuss the latest on the topic.

11:20 AM.A study out of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has concluded that, on average, a shared e-scooter creates 51 more grams of CO2 per kilometer than the means of transport it's… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Is the Jetsons future here at last? Not so fast says Courtney Rubin, a prominent journalist who's been researching this. Courtney's work's appeared in the NYT, Bloomberg Business Week, Rolling Stone… Read more Audio

10:43 AM.Dr Ali Hill is from the Human Nutrition department of Otago University. Artificial sweeteners, Vitamin D, a surfeit of salt, and are there really top foods that we should all maximising in our diets?

10:21 AM.Abbas Nazari authored the book After The Tampa from Afghanistan to New Zealand.  Abbas is back in Auckland for the writers festival, Jim catches up with him. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.For 45 years now George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers, the name of the state tends to be left out these days, have played what was once-called lunchbucket rock and roll. George Thorogood talks… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Well-known master chef and now food importer Simon Gault has some tips about making a great brunch including a perfectly poached egg. Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Stuart Muir lives in Lexington, Kentucky, the horse capital of the world, and Stuart's a farrier at the world-famous, world-leading, Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital. Stuart is this week's Calling Home… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.RNZ's Clay Wilson was at the AB's vs Pumas match. He joins Jim for a break down of the game. Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Dr Mark Thomas from Auckland University explains the science behind good handwashing. Read more Audio

11:29 AM.Dr Antonius Wiehler is a cognitive neuroscientist at Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in France, and thinks he and his colleagues may have an answer about being mentally tired. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.The annual Auckland Writers Festival is upon us, Waituhi o Tamaki, one of the best-attended festivals in the world, and on Festival Director Anne O'Brien talks to Jim.  Read more Audio

10:21 AM.Australian Anne Perrottet is a counsellor with a number of degrees to her name, based these days in the U.S. Her husband John worked for the World Bank, he's a financial consultant. She's also raised… Read more Audio