Sunday Morning Podcast Options

8:35 AM.Calling home this week is Matt Toogood who with his wife Tess and their two boys moved to the UAE in 2008. Matt and his business partner started up a coffee roasting company and since then It's grown… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.On the eve of the World Cup in Qatar, many people are undecided about how they'll view it, or not view it, literally. On the ground in Doha is a senior correspondent for TV2 in Denmark, Rasmus… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Toa Samoa may not have won Old Trafford this morning but a lot of people in the world were willing Samoa to win, and certainly a great many in Samoa and Aotearoa. 

Joining us is Alf Filipaina… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Many of us are feeling the pinch as costs soar and savings shrink, host of the personal finance podcast, Cooking the Books, Frances Cook joins us with some ideas to take a little of the sting out. Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Following a huge response from last week's interview, Professor James St John, head of the Clem Jones Centre for Neurobiology and Stem Cell Research at Griffith University is back to answer some… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Drummer Charlie Watts was known as the quietest member of the Rolling Stones, renowned for his impeccable timing - he didn't think of himself as a rockstar. He was a lover of jazz, and fine fashion. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Dr Zazie Todd is a cat person and a dog person. She trained in human psychology, until a dog named Ghost changed her focus. Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Hugh Simpson calls home. Originally from Christchurch he now lives in Transylvania in Romania - where Dracula's castle is. Hugh works remotely as a computer penetration tester (a legal hacker) for a… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The Herald's bid to confront big national issues and 'Rebuild Better'; annoying left and right wing doesn't mean doing the right thing; irreplaceable images from papers past on the block. Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Dr Ali Hill from the Human Nutrition department of Otago University is back once again - this time to talk about sources of Vitamin D, what you can get out of almonds and more. Dr Hill answers your… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have now discovered that bumblebees love to play ball games, and as with humans, young bumblebees like to play more than older ones do. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.RNZ Sports Journalist, Joe Porter brings us up to date on the weekend's sport. Read more Audio

2:20 PM.A world-first study has demonstrated that bacteria can travel through the olfactory nerve in the nose and into the brain in mice, where they create markers that are tell-tale signs of Alzheimer's… Read more Audio

10:25 AM.Author James Grant, aka Lee Child, decided to stop writing his well-regarded books, but the world wouldn't let him. So, he came to an arrangement with his younger brother Andrew, who would take over… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Alfred Hitchcock's spy thriller North by Northwest is regarded as one of the best suspense movies of all time, adapted for the stage by Carolyn Burns, directed by Simon Phillips, and starring Antonia… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.We invited Dr Grainne, author of "Why Do Birds Do That?", back to answer more bird-y questions. Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Minister and media puts pressure on name suppression; who are New Zealand's journalists today? Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Auckland neuroscientist Dr Angelo Tedoldi travelled around to find out about the role of genes in sexuality to answer why people are gay, straight or bisexual. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.We get an update on the Black Ferns clash with France, the All Blacks match against Wales and the Black Caps performance in the T20 World cup with Mark Reason, Senior Sports Columnist with Stuff. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.With just one-third (35%) of respondents voting in the recent local body elections, and a draft report of the Review into the future for Local Government due to be released on October 28, 2022… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Wildlife ecologist and podcaster Dr Grainne Cleary has written a new book called Why Do Birds Do That?. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.This weekend Borland Lodge celebrates its 50th year. In the late 1960s, the campsite was known as Pig Creek Hostel and was a temporary home for Manapouri power scheme workers. Once the project was… Read more Audio