Sunday Morning for Sunday 4 September 2022

8:14 Wrap of the All Blacks vs Argentina match 

Gregor Paul is one of our top rugby writers, widely-read in the NZ Herald, and the author of a number of books on rugby, including 'The Reign of King Henry', 'Black Obsession' and 'For the Love of the Game'.

8:22 Rich Preston on the UK leadership race

Former UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak and current Foreign Secretary Liz Truss are vying to lead the Conservative party in the UK. Whoever wins will become Prime Minister, replacing Boris Johnson. The final vote, the ballot, closed yesterday, our time, and the result is tomorrow, UK time. Somewhere around 160,000 Conservative voters have made this decision. Truss will become Britain's third female prime minister, or Sunak its first non-white one. 

9:06 Mediawatch

Media backlash sparks tax tweak backflip; taking a more sceptical stance for business; Stuff's Sinead Boucher - on the outside of the public media push; rugby media stuck in a rut by repeated defeats. 

9:37 Rugby Head 

Greg Bruce is a feature writer for the NZ Herald and his work has appeared in other well-known publications, and has been twice anthologised in collections. He has won four national media awards. He lives in Auckland with his wife Zanna and three children. He has written a book called 'Rugby Head - a man, a game, a life, a shambles'. 

10:06 What I'm Listening To 

Kiwi motor racing driver Liam Lawson chats about his career and chooses a song. 

10:20 Spring Gardening 

Gardening expert Tony Murrell answers your questions on Spring gardening. 

11:05 Calling Home 

Loretta Houston-McMillan from Upper Hutt lives in Lesotho, she's been there for a long time running an early childhood education centre in the capital city, Maseru.  

11:29 My Current Song 

On our My Current Song segment today, one of our great NZ voices and songwriters. Nadia Reid was educated at Logan Park High School and Queen's High School in Dunedin, and at age 14 she began playing the guitar. Nadia went on to be best female musician in the Smokefreerockquest, she was in a Queen's High madrigal choir that won the New Zealand Choral Federation Millennium Trophy for secondary school choirs in 2009. And she had a youth well spent in the folk clubs and indie scenes of Dunedin and Christchurch. 

11:50 Helen Jacobi 

Father's Day was first observed in NZ at St Matthew's Church, Auckland, St-Matthew-In-The-City now, in 1929, and it first appeared in commercial advertising the following year. St Matthew-in-the-City's first female vicar the Reverend Dr Helen Jacobi talks to Jim Mora.