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Sunday Morning for Monday 26 December 2011
The Best of Sunday Morning for 2011
Sunday is taking a break and will resume on 29 January, 2012.
You can listen again to some of our favourite interviews from 2011.
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Christopher Ward - a titanic tale
10:05 AM.'And the Band Played On' a book which chronicles the events leading to the sinking of the unsinkable ship a hundred years ago and the affects it had on the family of one of its victims; Christopher… Read more Audio
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Insight for 26 December 2011
9:06 AM.Nick Butcher investigates the use of foreign charter vessels in NZ's deep water fishery. Audio
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Mary Lovell - The Churchill Dynasty
10:10 AM.Biographer and historian Mary S Lovell, famous for her account of the Mitford sisters, chronicles the life and times of a British political dynasty in her new book The Churchills. Audio
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Fred the Needle
10:05 AM.Former All Black coach and captain, Sir Fred Allen at 91 is now New Zealand's oldest living man to have donned the black jersey. In his very self-effacing way he candidly talks to Chris about his… Read more Audio
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John Farrell - Clarence Darrow
10:07 AM.Clarence Darrow biorapher John Farrell. Audio
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Paul Gilding
10:05 AM.Australian eco-activist on the need to act on the obvious when it comes to transforming the world economy. Audio
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Tevita Mara - Fiji
10:05 AM.Self appointed democratic reformist and former coup strongman speaks about his beliefs for a way forward in Fiji. Audio
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Dennis Avery
8:40 AM.The man who broke into Auschwitz; Dennis Avery tells his wartime story in his 95th year. Audio
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David Norton - Writing The King James Bible
8:40 AM.It took more than a century to translate the King James version of the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek. It was first published in 1611 and is still considered by many scholars to be the most… Read more Audio
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Jane Bowron
8:40 AM.Columnist on her observations on life in Christchurch after the September and February earthquakes. Audio
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Ray Columbus - Modfather
10:10 AM.Chris talks to Kiwi prince of pop, Ray Columbus. Ray is about to release his tell-all biography, 'The Modfather - The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer'. Read more Audio
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Bob Harvey - Surf Heroes
9:40 AM.Bob Harvey has edited a book celebrating 100 years of Surf Life Saving New Zealand. He talks to former surf life saver Chris Laidlaw about the dramas and triumphs of those who volunteer their spare… Read more Audio
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Paul Street
8:40 AM.American academic analyses the Tea Party phenomenon. Audio
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James Fergusson - Inside The Taliban
10:05 AM.The taliban has become a label - a sort of terrorist talisman. But who, really, are the taliban? Why are they regarded with such revulsion outside Afghanistan, and what is their connection to Al… Read more Audio
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Hemana Waaka - Broadcasting in Te Reo
8:40 AM.Pioneering Maori broadcaster Hemana Waaka heads Maori TV's Te Reo World Cup commentary team. He talks to Chris about his career in broadcasting, writing the Maori sports dictionary, and how he is… Read more Audio
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Fleur Sullivan - Life and Food, But Mostly Life
10:06 AM.Pioneering restaurateur Fleur Sullivan changed the world of dining out for many when she opened Oliver's in Clyde in the 1970s, and now runs two restaurants in North Otago. She talks to Chris about… Read more Audio
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Sam Zarifi - Justice in Sri Lanka
8:41 AM.In the wake of reports of Tamil asylum seekers heading for New Zealand, Chris talks to Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific Director, about the situation for Tamils in Sri Lanka following… Read more Audio
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Professor Richard Jackson
10:10 AM.Professor Richard Jackson discusses the character of terrorism: its origins, its motivations and the curious ability of state terrorism to escape the full blaze of attention whilst non-state… Read more Audio
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Simon Reid-Henry
9:45 AM.Simon Reid-Henry is a British academic and writer. He takes us through the impact of the bizarre act of terrorism in Norway, in which a Norwegian citizen was able to gun down scores of his fellow… Read more Audio
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Ideas for 14 August 2011
11:05 AM.Bill Maung, who died on May 31, filled many roles in his 93 years of life. He was an active participant in Burma's struggle for independence, an inmate of a Japanese concentration camp, a judge, a… Read more Audio
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Ideas for 31 July 2011: Lord Robert Winston
11:05 AM.Lord Robert Winston is back in the country as guest of the Cawthron Institute and patron of Sir Peter Gluckman's Liggins Institute. He's on a lecture tour and found time again to talk to the programme… Read more Audio
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Homosexual Law Reform
11:06 AM.It's 25 years since homosexuality became legal in New Zealand. Ideas talks to former Wellington Central MP Fran Wilde, whose private members' Homosexual Law Reform Bill finally changed the law in this… Read more Audio
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Ideas for 26 June 2011: Professor James Belich
11:06 AM.Professor James Belich was known for his revisionist histories of the New Zealand wars and his two-volume history of New Zealand. But his 2011 work, Replenishing the Earth, took on a much larger… Read more Audio
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Ideas for 29 May 2011 - Psychoanalysis
11:05 AM.This week Ideas puts psychoanalysis on the couch. Audio
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Ideas for 27 March 2011
11:05 AM.Professor Sir Peter Gluckman is New Zealand's first chief science advisor to the Prime Minister; the author of more than 500 scientific papers; and the only New Zealander to be elected to the… Read more Audio
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Ideas: Fathers and (Disabled) Sons
11:05 AM.Jeremy Rose reflects on his relationship with his youngest son, Tai, and talks to two other fathers of disabled sons. Audio
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Ideas for 1 May 2011: The state of trade unions internationally
11:10 AM.What is the state of unions internationally? Jeremy Rose has been talking to trade unionists in Bangladesh, the Middle East and China, to find out what's happening in those places. Audio
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Ideas for 19 September 2011
11:06 AM.When it comes to recycling is New Zealand ahead of the pack? Audio
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Ideas for 17 July 2011 - The Cost of Drugs
11:05 AM.There are many life-saving medicines that cost just a few cents to manufacture but remain beyond the reach of most of the world's population. Ideas talks to philosopher Thomas Pogge about an idea he… Read more Audio
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Ideas for 19 June 2011: A New Economics
11:06 AM.Ideas talks to three of the World Economics Association founding members: Ha Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism; former World Bank economist and professor of… Read more Audio