Sunday 4 'til 8 for Sunday 28 December 2014

4:06 The Sunday Feature: The 2014 Rutherford Lectures - Experiments Across Worlds

Rivers: Whanganui was the venue for Dame Anne's final talk 'Rivers - Give Me the Water of Life'. This lecture begins by discussing the settlement between the Whanganui River hapu and iwi and the government in August this year that recognised the Whanganui River status as a legal person in its own right. She discusses our relationship with rivers, including the Whanganui, examining Maori and modernist ideas about freshwater and how experiments between these ways of thinking might allow us to have rivers that we can swim and fish in again (F, RNZ)

5:00 The 5 O'Clock Report

A roundup of today's news and sport

5:11 Spiritual Outlook

Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (RNZ)

5:40 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi

(RNZ)

6:06 Great Encounters

Highlighting a feature interview from the best of 2014 on Radio New Zealand National (RNZ)

7:06 World Book Club

Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap: The chronicler of 21st Century urban Australia, Christos Tsiolkas, talks to Harriett Gilbert about his controversial award-winning novel The Slap which has polarised opinion in his native country and across the globe (BBC)