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Sunday Morning for Sunday 14 June 2015

  • India Heatwave

    7:09 AM.Environmental journalist Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava on the aftermath of India's heatwave. Audio

  • Nicola Gaston

    7:18 AM.Do Sir Tim Hunt's comments about women in labs indicate a wider problem with sexism in science? Read more Audio

  • The Week In Parliament for 14 June 2015

    7:30 AM.MPs on Finance and Expenditure Committee quiz Reserve Bank Governor, Graeme Wheeler, about Thursday's 25-point cut in the Official Cash Rate. Labour's Palmerston North MP, Iain Lees-Galloway… Read more Audio

  • Richard di Natale

    7:48 AM.He's a former public health specialist, he's worked in Aboriginal health and is now the new leader of the Australian Green Party. Audio

  • Kenia Serrano: Cuba in the 21st Century

    8:40 AM.Kenia Serrano is the president of the Cuba Institute for Friendship with the Peoples and an MP in the communist state's parliament. Read more Audio

  • Mediawatch for 14 June 2015

    9:05 AM.All cops, all primetime: do popular police reality TV shows give us a true picture? Also coverage of Jerry Collins's death raises hackles, a superficial scan of five years of the taser and the… Read more Audio

  • Christy Martin and Giulio Sturla - Roots Restaurant

    9:40 AM.Lyttelton's Roots Restaurant was named Cuisine's restaurant of the year. Chef Giulio Sturla and owner Christy Martin talk about the challenge of getting Roots Restaurant up and running after the… Read more Audio

  • Euthanasia Panel

    10:06 AM.This week ACT Party leader David Seymour confirmed he is drafting a bill to legalise voluntary euthanasia. David Seymour, Dr Jack Havill of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, and palliative care… Read more Audio

  • Jeffrey Smith - Zimbabwe

    10:38 AM.Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, won all 16 seats in by-elections this week following a boycott by the main opposition party among allegations of vote rigging. Jeffrey Smith is an advocacy specialist… Read more Audio

  • Jacob Rajan - A Writer's Dairy

    11:06 AM.Jacob Rajan's Krishnan's Dairy was a surprise theatrical hit back in the early 1990s and his theatre company, Indian Ink, has continued to tour one man shows internationally since then. His latest… Read more Audio

  • Workplace Conflict

    11:33 AM.Margaret Heffernan is the author of 'Beyond Measure': the Big Impact of Small Changes a book that argues conflict avoidance can result in bad decisions. Read more Audio

7:08 Current affairs

Environmental journalist Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava on the aftermath of India's heatwave; Dr Nicola Gaston on sexism and science; the new leader of the Australian Green Party Richard di Natale; and The Week in Parliament.

8:12 Insight - Tracking Aid in Nepal

International aid is pouring in to Nepal in the wake of the two recent earthquakes there. The country - one of the poorest in the world - has been devastated, with more than 8000 people killed and thousands injured. The BBC's Simon Cox investigates whether the urgent needs of the people of Nepal will be met by the relief effort and if the billions of aid dollars will end up in the right place.

Produced by Philippa Tolley.

8:40 Kenia Serrano - Cuba in the 21st Century

Kenia Serrano is the president of the Cuba Institute for Friendship with the Peoples and an MP in the communist state's parliament.

Kenia Serrano

9:06 Mediawatch

Mediawatch looks at the ballooning numbers of police reality shows on TV and asks if they give us a true picture. Also: how the media handled the sudden death of former All Black Jerry Collins; a superficial scan of five years of the taser; and the critical caning of a FIFA movie starring one of our top actors
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.

9:40 Christy Martin and Guilio Sturla – Roots Restaurant

Lyttelton's Roots Restaurant was this week named Cuisine's restaurant of the year. Chef Guilio Sturla and owner Christy Martin talk to Wallace about the challenge of getting Roots Restaurant up and running after the devastating 2011 earthquake.

10:06 Euthanasia - A panel discussion

Euthanasia is the story that refuses to die. This week ACT Party leader David Seymour confirmed he is drafting a bill to legalise voluntary euthanasia. David Seymour, Dr Jack Havill of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, and palliative care specialist and opponent of euthanasia Sinead Donelly join Wallace for a discussion on this most difficult of ethical dilemmas.

10:40 Jeffrey Smith - Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, won all 16 seats in by-elections this week following a boycott by the main opposition party among allegations of vote rigging. Jeffrey Smith is an advocacy officer at the Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights in Washington DC with a long-time interest in the politics of Zimbabwe.

Jacob Rajan11:05 Jacob Rajan - A Writer's Dairy

Jacob Rajan's Krishnan's Dairy was a surprise theatrical hit back in the early 1990s and his theatre company, Indian Ink, has continued to tour one man shows internationally since then. His latest production, Kiss the Fish, pays homage to Balinese comic mask traditions.

11:35 Margaret Heffernan - Workplace Conflict

Margaret Heffernan is the author of Beyond Measure: the Big Impact of Small Changes a book that argues conflict avoidance can result in bad decisions.