Sunday Morning for Sunday 2 October 2022

8:12 Emanuel Kalafatelis – Probing appetite for a republic

The passing of Queen Elizabeth II, has for many reignited the debate about New Zealand becoming a republic.

Having canvassed the topic in the past, Research New Zealand have run a new poll to gauge where opinion sits here in Aotearoa.  

Research New Zealand’s Emanuel Kalafatelis joins us with more.

8:22 Joshua Ross – Sunday Brunch

A brunch recipe this morning from Joshua Ross, the head chef at Bellamy's Restaurant at Parliament, and he has his own Upper Hutt restaurant, Twenty Eight.

Josh is flying out this week to compete in the Young Chef of the Year competition in Mexico City, he's up against seventeen other young chefs from around the world who've all won their national competitions, as he has here.

8:36 Calling Home – Chris Donovan

Chris Donovan is calling home this morning, from Germany. Hailing from Putararu originally, Chris now lives with his partner Priscilla and their family near Stuttgart in the country's south-west in a place called Kirchheim unter Teck, which translates roughly as the villlage with a church under a castle. 

9:06 Mediawatch

This week Mediawatch looks at how The Christchurch Call is investigating social media's secret algorithms. But will that help undercut the extremism on social media platforms?

Also: fresh headlines about a surge in youth offending that don't match the latest stats on crime - and the latest developments in the reworking of public broadcasting. 

9:39 Richard Marx – New Zealand tour

Grammy award-winning artist Richard Marx will play in New Zealand for the first time ever next year touring his 13th studio album Songwriter.

His 1989 classic Right Here Waiting topped the charts in both Australia and New Zealand and in 2004 his work with Luther Vandross for the song Dance With My Father a won a Grammy for Song of the Year. He also received chart success with songs like Satisfied and Take This Heart.

10:06 Dr Catherine O'Reilly - World lakes changing colour

The American Geophysical Union has conducted the first-ever "global inventory of lake colour". Past studies have looked at the health of up to 200 bodies of freshwater at a time, this research looked from space at the hues of 85,360 lakes and reservoirs worldwide over 7 years, using 5.14 million satellite pictures.

Dr Catherine O'Reilly is a Professor of Geology at Illinois State University and one of the two lead authors of the study,

10:22 Jeffrey Halley – New Zealand and shrinking global economic growth

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) the world’s leading economies are sliding into recession as the Ukraine war sparks energy and inflation crises and cuts growth.

There’s a variety of opinion about what this means for Aotearoa New Zealand and the severity of what's in store.

New Zealander Jeffrey Halley is a former Senior Market Analyst for the OANDA corporation. His analysis has been regularly sought by Bloomberg, the BBC, Reuters, CNBC and the New York Times.

10:37 Benjamin de Bivort – Nurture, nature …or luck?

We know about the nature versus nurture debate, the combination of genes and environment that affect our chances of success and happiness in life.

What also seems important is a random kind of luck, and not just the sort of luck that wins Lotto.

Benjamin de Bivort is a Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. His research has made him think another kind of random luck is at play in our lives.

11:05 Dr Andrew Read – What does “post-pandemic” look like?

As many of us start to tentatively look beyond a world constrained by covid, new research findings on the after-effects of the virus shed some light on what “post-pandemic” may mean for some.

New Zealander Dr Andrew Read is the director of its Institutes of Life Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. He works at the forefront of international research on Covid and specialises in the ways infectious diseases work, with expertise too in how well vaccines cope with them.

11:25 Dr Jack Watling – Examining the latest moves in Ukraine

A lot has happened in the fortnight since we last talked to Jack Watling about the war in Ukraine. Annexation referendums have taken place in Russian-occupied areas and their results have been rejected globally.

Russian reservists have been called up and Putin has again hinted at the possible use of nuclear weapons.

The attack on the Nord stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea is said to have been the biggest single methane release ever recorded.

Award winning analyst, Dr Jack Watling is our regular commentator on the military aspects of this war. Jack’s the senior research fellow for land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defence and security think tank.

11:47 Dr Kate Prickett – Adult children living at home longer

More young people are living at home with their parents. The Australian Institute of Family Studies has reported that nearly half a million Australians between the ages of 25 and 34 are at home, or back at home with Mum and Dad. That's a 17% jump in five years.

Dr Kate Prickett is a family sociologist and demographer from Victoria University's Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families.