Sunday Morning Podcast Options

9:47 AM.The world's first solar powered car will be ready for the market in November for a cool 250,000 Euros - that's $420,000 for us! Journalist Ashifa Kassam, based in Madrid, took the Lightyear Zero Solar… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.For Calling Home this week, we go to Norway where Taygen Hughes has been living.  Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Price hikes in food, warnings of shortages to come and now the muted feeling about the latest trade deal, should NZ be rethinking its food policy?  Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Adjunct Professor Lincoln… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.The former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell will be sentenced on Tuesday. Victoria Bekiempis writes for the Guardian and has been following the trial in New York. She talks to Jim. Read more Audio

11:12 AM.Micronations aren't real countries by definition, yet sometimes these eccentric mini-states - which have no legitimate basis for statehood - come very close.  Dr Harry Hobbs is a lecturer at the… Read more Audio

10:42 AM.Every so often this topic comes up. Should couples sleep together, or apart, if they want better sleep? The consensus of expert opinion seems to be that sleep divorces are fine Jim speaks to Dr Alex… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Feminists must abandon their delusions about the sexual revolution. Men and women are not the same, and it is usually women who suffer when we pretend otherwise. So says Louise Perry, a UK based… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.'The Villages' is the world's largest retirement community. It's in Florida. Valerie Blankenbyl is an Austrian documentary filmmaker and a journalist who lives outside the Villages. She has made a… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Dr David Gerrard is the sports medicine professor who won a Commonwealth Games swimming gold, he's been a team doctor and Chef de Mission. David is at the World champs, in his capacity as… Read more Audio

8:36 AM.In a glimpse of the future, finally, the world's first traffic control system of its kind, they say, using artificial intelligence, designed to make urban traffic jams a thing of the past. Computer… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.We last talked to Frances Cook back in February. Frances is the Investments Editor at Business Desk and had just written a book called YOUR MONEY YOUR FUTURE. We go back to her over the current… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Jim's tribute to Sunday Morning executive producer Dave Campbell. Read more Audio

3:20 PM.Maori astronomer Professor Rangi Matamua and journalist Miriama Kamo have come together to create a new book, Matariki Around the World, which explores the origins of the Matariki cluster through nine… Read more Audio

11:44 AM.The January 6 hearings in America resumed this past week, the U.S. Congress' investigation into the storming of the Capitol 18 months ago. At issue is whether former US President Donald Trump's claims… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Auckland-born artist Emily Wolfe moved to London over 20 years ago and has managed to sustain an international arts practice with regular exhibitions in both Aotearoa and the UK. These days, Emily and… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.The 'Strait Guys' follows George, and his protégé, Scott, as they join forces with Russian visionaries and dare to try the impossible by connecting the InterContinental Railway through Alaska, to the… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.In his new book, Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop, Bob Stanley, who is a member of English indie/dance crossover band Saint Etienne, tells the definitive story of the birth of Pop music, from 1900… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.We've all suffered the embarrassment of forgetting important things that we promised people we were going to do. New research shows that no matter how hard we try to remember plans, there is always an… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Traffic noise at schools has a detrimental effect on the development and working memory and attention in primary school students, new research out of Barcelona has found. Researcher Maria Foraster led… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.Senior market analyst Jeffrey Halley joins the show to discuss interest rates and a number of other financial matters, including why New Zealanders should be putting their money in term deposits for… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.It's a huge weekend for sport in New Zealand, with today's big netball showdown between the Pulse and the Stars in the ANZ Premiership final the next big ticket item on the agenda. Sports commentator… Read more Audio

11:18 AM.Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt says he knows why the last 10 years in America have been "uniquely stupid". Perhaps unsurprisingly, he lays the blame squarely on social media platforms like… Read more Audio