Sunday Morning Podcast Options

10:52 AM.More and more couples are tapping into a trend of choosing weekdays for their weddings. Kay Gregory is one of New Zealand's best known marriage celebrants. She says roughly 75% of her bookings are now… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.For many of us, chit-chatting with strangers seems like nothing less than cruel and unusual punishment. However, new research suggests our negative expectations of talking to strangers are generally… Read more Audio

9:41 AM.Having twice lived in Berlin as a child, the pull to return to the German capital as an adult was always strong for Wellingtonian Claire Dugan. Claire lives and works in central Berlin as the Deputy… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.Joining us on the Panel this morning are Chris Finlayson and Anna Fifield. Among other topics, they'll be discussing sympathy abroad for the Wellington Parliament protesters, struggling with the… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Radio Free Europe's Mike Eckel recently spent five days on the frontline in Verkhnotorestke, north of the separatist-held provincial capital of Donetsk. He's with us to discuss the tensions along the… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.In his trailblazing new book, Frontal Fatigue: The Impact of Modern Life and Technology on Mental Illness, Dr Mark Rego examines why mental illness and stress are skyrocketing alongside technology. Read more Audio

11:20 AM.International sports broadcaster Lavina Good is at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, where she has been working as part of the Olympic Broadcast Services team. Lavina joins the show for an update on the… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.A new study out of the University of Copenhagen claims to have demonstrated for the first time how it is possible for people with obesity to maintain long-term weight loss. Dr Ali Hill joins the show… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.New Zealand actor and winemaker Sam Neill is in Sydney filming Australian courtroom drama The Twelve at the moment he joined Jim Mora to talk about Australia's "tone deaf" national day - and the best… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Author Frances Cook's new book on financial independence, Your Money, Your Future, is billed as a "real-life handbook to finding freedom on any income". She joins the show to discuss the new book and… Read more Audio

9:42 AM.Christchurch native Sam Coley lives in the popular suburb of Kings Heath in Birmingham, with his French wife, Emilie Grinan-Coley, and son Tom Coley. Kings Heath, which is one of Birmingham's real… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Joining us on the Weekend Panel this morning are commentator Josie Pagani and PR consultant Chris Wikaira. They discuss the ongoing protests at Parliament grounds, people avoiding contact tracing, and… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Kiwi doctor Andrew Read may have played a part (through no fault of his own) in Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and other leading artists leaving Spotify after podcaster Joe Rogan misrepresented an old… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.As NZ waits and watches the potential spread of the contagious Omicron variant, Research New Zealand polled Kiwis on whether they are taking a more cautious approach and avoiding activities due to… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Researchers from the University of Hawai'i have looked into how asteroids can sneak up on us without detection. The study was undertaken by astronomer Dr Richard Wainscoat, who joins the show to… Read more Audio

3:48 PM.Last year saw the meteoric rise of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a form of digital provenance. However, senior market analyst at Oanda, Jeffrey Halley, says NFTs are reaching peak hype, and their… Read more Audio

11:24 AM.In his new book, For the Good of the World, English philosopher Professor A.C. Grayling outlines the biggest challenges he believes the world faces right now - climate change, technology and justice -… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.It took the better part of half a year, but Belgian-British teen Zara Rutherford created history last week when she landed her two-seat ultralight plane in Kortrijk, Belgium, becoming the youngest… Read more Audio

10:53 AM.Pregnant Kiwi journalist Charlotte Bellis feels let down by her country after failing to gain an MIQ spot and being forced to seek safe refuge in Afghanistan as she awaits the birth of her first… Read more Audio

10:42 AM.Kiwi snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott couldn't be in a better place ahead of her second Olympic Winter Games , having claimed back-to-back gold medals in the slopestyle and big air events at the… Read more Audio

10:22 AM.If Kylee Dillane and Irish husband Liam could channel the old Cher song and turn back time, they might reconsider their move back to Liam's homeland in early 2020. But they're making the most of life… Read more Audio