Sunday Morning for Sunday 2 June 2013
8:12 Insight Weight Loss Surgery – Worth the Cost?
This award-winning Insight documentary looks at weight loss surgery and asks if the operations will continue at the same rate when special funding ends later this year.
Produced by Philippa Tolley.
8:40 Harriet Tuckey – Unsung Hero of Everest
Harriet Tuckey didn’t get on with her father, Griffith Pugh, and didn’t know that the first ascent of Everest would not have been possible without his contributions. Pugh designed the oxygen and fluid-intake regimes, the acclimatisation programme, the diet, the high-altitude boots, the tents, the down clothing, the mountain stoves and the airbeds. Realising the extent of his involvement, Tuckey has written the account of the forgotten team member who has been left out of the stories told about the 1953 expedition.
Harriet Tuckey’s book, Everest - the First Ascent is published by Random House.
9:06 Mediawatch
Mediawatch looks at claims the media is now winning the “us and them” struggle with politicians. Is that true? And if so, why are there more media people than ever in Parliament, or trying to get in? Also on Mediawatch – a birdcall bungle, the tricky issue of labeling people who are a bit different and a paper publishing handy hints for hackers.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Kate Mosse – Touching History
Kate Mosse (right) is author of bestsellers, Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel, (published by Hachette) as well as Co-Founder and Chair of the Board for The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013 (previously the Orange Prize). She talks to Chris about inspiration, history, intrepid women, and the power of the zeitgeist.
10:06 Ideas Focus on Myanmar
In the latest of our occasional series where we focus on a country and its people we take a look at Myanmar. Chris Laidlaw speaks to Victoria University lecturer in international relations David Capie; and Jeremy Rose talks to Phil Robertson a co-author of the Human Rights Watch report All You Can Do Is Pray which implicated Burmese authorities in crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing, and Maung Zarni a long-time democracy activist and a research fellow of the London School of Economics.
Produced by Jeremy Rose.
10:55 Today’s Track
Today we feature a track from Irish duo, Lumiere, from their recent album My Dearest Dear (IRL). It’s called Ye Jacobites.
11:05 Down the List
Mel Amine from Fonterra and Barbara Major from Sanitarium take free breakfasts to schools in South Auckland and let the kids enjoy the benefits of ‘trickle down’ economic policy.
Down the List is written by Dave Armstrong and produced by Adam Macaulay and Duncan Smith from the RNZ Drama Department.
11:12 Christopher Hill – Dancing with North Korea
Ambassador Christopher Hill (left) is the Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at The University of Denver and former US career diplomat. He talks to Chris about the niceties of negotiating with North Korea, NZ’s anti-nuclear stance, and getting along with China.
11:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint
Recently a French consumer magazine tested 47 popular brands of bottled water and found that 10 of them contained residues from drugs or pesticides. This raises questions about supposedly healthier bottled water – and also why many seem to constantly need it. Wayne looks at the issue, and Chris follows up with American science and nature writer Elizabeth Royte.
