Sunday Morning for Sunday 17 March 2024

8:10 Rich Preston: The latest from the UK

BBC senior reporter, Rich Preston, joins Jim to discuss the Royal families' photo doctoring blunder and the latest on Andrew Tate’s extradition to the UK.  

8: 25 Jack Whaley-Cohen: The Sunday Quiz    

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen joins us once again as our Sunday Morning question master.      

Jack is the mind behind the questions on BBC quiz show Only Connect which is known for being both difficult to crack and totally obvious.   

It’s Sunday morning, so wake up your brain and have a go!   

8:30 Eliezer Yudkowsky: The AI academic warning of an AI apocalypse 

Eliezer Yudkowsky, artificial intelligence researcher, decision theorist and co-founder of Machine Intelligence Research Institute, has a stark warning that we’re moving too fast in the field of AI. 

9:10 Mediawatch 

TV news and current affairs are still in the balance at two big broadcasters. Mediawatch looks at how the government has responded  - and what it might be planning.  

Also: how artificial intelligence is creating news at a media company which has warned the technology could ruin the business of journalism. 

9:35 James Taylor returns to NZ for a one-off show. 

Six-time grammy award winner, James Taylor, is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide with hits including ‘Fire and Rain, Country Road, Sweet Baby James, and Carolina In My Mind’. 

He speaks with Jim Mora about his life and career ahead of his one-off New Zealand show ‘An Evening with James Taylor and His All-Star Band’ set for April. 

10:06 Add three years to your life by walking just 15,000 steps a week 

There has been such a lot of talk about steps in the last decade…. How many should we take for health. 

Dr Joan Costa-i-Font is a Professor in Health Economics, the team leader at the Ageing and Health Incentives Lab at the London School of Economics.  

10:15 The real-life cousins of Dune’s magnificent sandworms 

With the second part of Denis Villeneuve’s film franchise of Frank Herbert’s fantasy novel, Dune currently in cinemas, we ask if the fictional worms in the movie share anything in common with real worms. 

Joining us is Dr. Luke Parry, an Associate Professor of Palaeobiology at the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. 

10:20 Calling Home: Zara DuCrôs in New York City 

Aucklander, Zara DuCrôs, has been living and studying acting in New York for the last three years.  

When she’s not busy auditioning, she works as a children's birthday party entertainer. From gorgeous penthouses on the Upper East Side, to secret Naval bases, she’s entertained kids around New York as everything from a Disney princess to a clown. 

10:40 Skindred's new reggae album

The band Skindred have just won Best Alternative Act at the 2024 MOBO Awards - MOBO standing for Music Of Black Origin. Originating from Newport in Wales, they've topped the US reggae charts and have been busy playing at Glastonbury and touring with the band KISS.

Their new album 'SMILE' has a unique blend of reggae, electronica and heavy metal.

The frontman of the band, Benji Webbe spoke with Jim ahead of their New Zealand shows in Whangaparāoa on the 28th and 29th of March.

11:05 Is television news dead? 

Research NZ have been asking New Zealanders about the importance of having a choice of television channels for news and current affairs and how important it was to have news on television compared with online and other digital platforms. 

Joining us is Research NZ managing partner Emanuel Kalafatelis. 

11:15 Ali Hill: The Nutrition Edition 

Dr Ali Hill from Otago University's Department of Human Nutrition is back. She looks at the different types of salt available and assesses their nutritional benefits. 

11:25 David McAlpine: Your noise and hearing questions answered 

Following Professor David McAlpine’s chat with Jim last week, so many of you got in touch with questions we’ve asked him back.