Sunday Morning Podcast Options

8:40 AM.Our panellists discuss Tauranga mayor Tenby Powell's resignation, diversity in the workplace, the lingering impact of Covid-19 and Tourism minister Stuart Nash's contention that NZ should be focusing… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Psychologists at the University of New South Wales are hoping a new Face Test will help unearth more of Australia's top performers in facial recognition, known as super-recognisers. Dr James Dunn… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Research out of Oxford University shows than one in five Covid-19 patients have gone on to be diagnosed with a mental illness within three months of testing positive, with anxiety, insomnia, and… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.Filipe Manu is a New Zealand-Tongan tenor who is currently based in London, where he is part of the Young Artist programme at the world-renowned Royal Opera House. He's Calling Home this morning.  Read more Audio

7:33 AM.An Australian study is investigating why three siblings did not get seriously ill with Covid-19 after their parents contracted the illness. Dr Melanie Neeland from the Murdoch Children's Research… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.As expected, outgoing US president Donald Trump is refusing to leave the White House without a fight, claiming his election loss to president-elect Joe Biden is the "worst scam in the history of US… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.The latest survey from Research NZ shows that New Zealanders like the idea of the parliamentary term increasing from three to four years, while a whopping 90 percent of us have full trust and… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.AI is now being used to create 'deepfake' songs by deceased artists using data scraped from the internet. Music reviewer Graham Reid discusses the emerging world of fake singers, singing songs the… Read more Audio

11:22 AM.Nobel prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse's latest book, What Is Life?, explores the question of what we as humans share with all other living things on this planet.  Read more Audio

11:21 AM.Public Health Expert Michael Baker believes having clear rules around the use of masks will help dampen down the threat of community transmission and avoid another lockdown. Professor Baker joins the… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.President-elect Joe Biden is going to have his work cut out for him when Donald Trump leaves the White House, with the incoming president facing one heck of an economic challenge. The Guardian's… Read more Audio

10:50 AM.Most people know Jack Buchanan from the viral videos he has produced this year. But he's also an accomplished stage actor who last night made his pantomime debut as Prince Charming in Cinderella at… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Jodi Picoult admits she was initially terrified about publishing her new novel, The Book of Two Ways, during a pandemic. But this book - her 27th - has rejigged itself in her mind to become what she… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.The successful defence of her FIM Women's Motocross world title took Dunedin motocross rider Courtney Duncan to the brink physically and mntally. The 24-year-old joins the show to discuss how she… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Beau Jessup is not your typical British teen. The 19-year-old is making hundreds of thousands of dollars and funding her way through a B.Sc. Social Anthropology  by coming up with 'culturally… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.New research from the University of Copenhagen has found that men in jobs with hard physical work have a 55% higher risk of developing dementia compared to those doing sedentary work. Associate… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Will Barton moved to Norway 13 years ago, and now lives with his wife and two children in Nordstrand, south of Oslo. He for a company called Jottacloud, a cloud-based storage system that runs in… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.As people age they can often be affected by 'motivation decline', that is the loss of motivation to learn new things or even engage in everyday activities.  Professor John Reynolds, a neuroscientist… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.We've been hearing about an unseasonably warm and humid summer, but there could be a spanner in the works with news that Australia might be in for a wet and wild time thanks to a "polar vortex" in… Read more Audio

11:33 AM.Frances Walsh's new book, Endless Sea focuses on the sea which encircles Aotearoa, and 100 objects from the collection of the New Zealand Maritime Museum, where she works as in-house writer. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Many of us have regrets at the end of the week about things we did or things we wish we would have done. But there is good news. Psychotherapist Amy Morin has compiled a list of ways you can have… Read more Audio

10:48 AM.The US election is now all over bar the shouting -- but there is still plenty of that to come, with outgoing President Donald Trump saying he's being cheated. US correspondent Karen Kasler is with us… Read more Audio

10:34 AM.There have been more reports of big cats in the South Island, and we've spoken to four people who have varying accounts. Yolanda van Heezik is a professor in the zoology department at Otago University… Read more Audio