Chris Laidlaw
Elisabeth McDonald - Real Justice
Dr Elisabeth McDonald this week delivered the 2012 Suffrage Day lecture at the University of Otago. She says that despite law reforms over the last 30 years, there's been little real change in the… Audio
Richard Towle - Mass Arrivals
Richard Towle, UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) Regional Representative for Australia, NZ, PNG and the Pacific says some of the measures being considered by Parliament in the Immigration Amendment Bill -… Audio
Ideas for 26 August 2012
In 2009, Venezuela became the first country in the world to ban any and all video games that involved shooting people. To date New Zealand has banned seven games. Jeremy Rose talks to his 13-year old… Audio
Alastair Bisley : freshwater resourses.
Alastair Bisley, the chairman of Land and water forum - that unique collective of interests that is finding a way of resolving the seemingly unresolvable - how to manage our increasingly stressed… Audio
Ideas for 12 August 2012: Jim Flynn
Jim Flynn is arguably New Zealand’s foremost moral philosopher. His pioneering work on IQs has changed the way we think about intelligence. Professor Flynn reflects on his life and influences and… Audio
Alison Lewin : Zimbabwe
Alison Lewin has found her calling in a deprived community in a remote part of Zimbabwe. Audio
Judith G Kelley : Monitoring Democracy
Judith Kelley the author of a book which analyses election monitoring has asked some pretty hard questions about what works and what doesn't. Audio
Ideas for 5 August 2012
The concept of "economic man" - a hypothetical rational person with complete knowledge who acts entirely out of self-interest - is one of the foundations of conventional economic thinking. Ideas talks… Audio
Matt Elliott - The Original All Black Skipper
Dave Gallaher is often regarded as the 'original' All Black captain, leading the first national team on a major tour of the British Isles and North America in 1905. Dave Gallaher - The Original All… Audio
Ideas for 8 July 2012: Singapore in Focus
Jeremy Rose talks to Rodney King, the author of The Singapore Miracle - Myth and Reality (Insight Press). Then, Aucklanders Allan Yee and Matthew Ong tell Chris Laidlaw about the country of their… Audio
James McNeish - Unremembered Past
As a young man James McNeish left Auckland a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter. Ten years later he was back in New Zealand, having met nine people who influenced his life, and later his life as a… Audio
Bob Kuhn - Shaking up his World
In 2006, when he was 53, Canadian lawyer Bob Kuhn was diagnosed with Parkinson's. In May this year he set off on a trip to 16 countries to meet others with the disease, record their stories and, he… Audio
Feedback
Chris Laidlaw reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Sunday Morning programme. Audio
Listener Feedback
Chris Laidlaw reads out some of the feedback that listeners have emailed, texted and tweeted the programme. Audio
Ideas for 3 June 2012
It's 25 years next Friday since New Zealand officially declared itself nuclear free. In the intervening quarter of a century our nuclear free status has been accepted across the political spectrum and… Audio
Dr Jan Wright : environment
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Jan Wright, who's calling for greater protection for New Zealand's wild and scenic rivers. Audio
Paul Warren
Paul Warren from the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University discusses the over-use of the word "like" Audio
50 years of Volunteer Service Abroad
Carolyn and Simon Mark - brother and sister - on 50 years of Volunteer Service Abroad. Carolyn as recruitment manager and Simon as a volunteer and now a council member. Audio
Ideas for 6 May 2012: Haiti in Focus
Arguably the first truly free country in the Americas and without doubt the first country on earth to outlaw slavery, Haiti’s history is as inspiring as it is tragic. Laurent Dubois - the author of… Audio