All episodes
Sunday, 26 April 2020
- 7:10 Unguarded X: Why women live longer than men
- 7:24 Lack of social connectedness with elderly a big issue for Kiwis
- 7:45 Calling Home: Chris Long in Tromso, Norway
- 8:10 Professor Peter Doherty: No Covid-19 magic bullets yet
- 8:33 3MM: Theresa Gattung on reducing face-to-face meetings
- 8:41 Linda Clark & Mai Chen on NZ's Covid-19 response
- 9:00 Mediawatch for 26 April 2020
- 9:37 Vicki Hyde on diving into the past while the future takes shape
- 9:41 Professor Michael Baker answers your Covid-19 questions
- 10:04 Rhys Darby's Covid-19-inspired rural chat show
- 10:30 Peter FitzSimons on Raelene Castle's resignation
- 10:40 Low-carb diet could stave off brain degeneration
- 11:05 Annabelle Sheehan: My Covid-19 experience
- 11:34 The Kiwi champion of children in need
Sunday, 19 April 2020
- 7:10 'No evidence that Covid-19 is causing huge loss of life'
- 7:25 Professor Gary McLean: International Covid-19 update
- 7:50 Calling Home: Michael Anderson in Guayaquil, Ecuador
- 8:06 Covid 19: How much lockdown exercise are Kiwis getting?
- 8:25 Covid-19: Foreigners being targetted as threats in China
- 8:35 Covid-19: Kiwis concerned about frontline staff
- 8:44 Linda Clark and Michael Barnett on the impact of Covid-19
- 9:06 Mediawatch for 19 April 2020
- 9:37 3MM: Wayne Brown on NZ's impending economic shift
- 9:40 Professor Michael Baker answers your Covid-19 questions
- 10:07 Neil Gaiman happily stuck in New Zealand due to Covid-19
- 10:41 What does the superhero craze say about our own times?
- 10:57 Covid-19: Update on Kiwis living abroad
- 11:05 Alain de Botton: Finding calm through pessimism
- 11:42 Trump wants US open for business by May 1
- 11:52 Allyson Gofton: The Baker's Companion
Sunday, 12 April 2020
- 8:13 Covid-19: Who are the lonely in New Zealand?
- 8:27 Covid-19: Strong support for introduction of NZ curfew
- 8:38 Professor Gary McLean: International Covid-19 update
- 9:07 Mediawatch for 12 April 2020
- 9:37 3MM: Reverend Frank Ritchie on Easter in Covid-19 lockdown
- 9:41 Professor Michael Baker answers your Covid-19 questions
- 10:06 Inside the world of doomsday preppers
- 10:39 Linda Clark and Michael Barnett on the impact of Covid-19 in NZ
- 11:05 What can novels tell us about getting away with murder?
- 11:27 Sam Neill delivering Covid-19 messages of hope
- 11:37 Trying To Get Home: Kylie Eastman in Chhattisgarh, India
- 11:44 Struggling school prepares for distance learning in lockdown
- 11:51 Al Brown: urban foraging for feijoas amid Covid-19 lockdown
Sunday, 5 April 2020
- 7:00 A Korero Between a Poet and an Activist Accounting Scholar
- 7:12 Professor Gary McLean: International Covid-19 update
- 7:46 New Zealander stuck in Peru during Covid-19 lockdown gets back to UK
- 7:50 Calling Home: Tom Simpson in Katrineholm, Sweden
- 8:10 Covid-19: 'Do-gooder impostor' cases on the rise
- 8:28 3MM: Tommy Kapai Wilson on trading in mana, not money
- 8:31 Covid-19: Kiwis now more concerned about becoming seriously ill
- 8:40 Linda Clark & Michael Barnett on NZ's Covid-19 response
- 9:06 Mediawatch for 5 April 2020
- 9:37 Professor Michael Baker answers listeners' Covid-19 questions
- 10:10 Empty Planet: the world's next big population threat
- 10:33 Kiwi facing intense lockdown conditions in French Guiana
- 10:39 Off the grid: Life on Great Barrier Island during lockdown
- 10:48 Campground blues: When a holiday turns into weeks of isolation
- 10:52 Covid-19: Takeaways available, golf courses open in Australia
- 11:05 Sir Michael Morpurgo: Covid-19 will leave us a kinder world
- 11:28 Drawing inspiration from kids and slime
- 11:33 Fiji grapples with fallout of Covid-19
- 11:41 How to cook good lockdown food on the smell of an oily rag
Sunday, 29 March 2020
- 7:11 Professor Gary McLean: 'Don't discount a second Covid-19 wave'
- 7:43 Kiwi stuck in Peru: 'We're getting much more disheartened'
- 7:49 Calling Home: Sarah Shackleton in Zaragoza, Spain
- 8:10 Markers of mood: Research NZ polls Kiwis on Covid-19 fallout
- 8:16 Linda Clark and Michael Barnett on NZ's Covid-19 response
- 8:38 The challenges of isolating in a holiday park during Covid-19
- 8:47 Remdesivir looms as most likely Covid-19 drug
- 9:37 3MM: Vaughn Davis on things of beauty in times of crisis
- 9:40 Professor Michael Baker answers your Covid-19 questions
- 10:04 Wendyl Nissen: Living Simply Through the Seasons
- 10:43 New Zealander in China: 'Life is back to normal here'
- 10:49 How coronavirus is unfolding around Australia
- 11:05 Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything
- 11:43 Ill-equipped isolators place strain on Great Barrier Island
- 11:51 New York is now the world's coronavirus hotspot
Sunday, 22 March 2020
- 7:10 New Zealanders continue to favour euthanasia legislation
- 7:18 Professor Gary McLean: 'No age group is immune from Covid-19'
- 7:45 Kiwi traveller stranded in Lima: 'We're not welcome here'
- 7:54 New Zealander in French Guiana riding out Covid-19 storm
- 8:10 Cramped, rotting and risky - the scale of the hospital fix-up revealed
- 8:40 3MM: Vanessa Baxter on essential items for your larder
- 8:45 Dr. Michael Baker: Covid-19 update and listener Q&A
- 9:06 Mediawatch for 22 March 2020
- 9:37 The quiet zone: the US town where Wi-Fi is banned
- 10:04 Peter Doherty: 'People should act as though they have Covid-19'
- 10:35 Musical Chair: Georgia Hale
- 11:05 Michael Portillo's Great Australian Railway Journeys
- 11:30 The streamer at the heart of the esports chess boom
- 11:52 New Zealand actress in 'spirals of anxiety' over Covid-19
Sunday, 15 March 2020
- 8:10 Lives put on hold by the mosque attacks
- 7:10 Grant Robertson on Covid-19 crisis and new border measures
- 7:19 Kiwis' Italian honeymoon from hell ends in self-isolation
- 7:45 Calling Home: Kim Brice in Bangkok
- 8:40 Covid-19 mortality rate could be '20 or 30 times worse than flu'
- 9:06 Mediawatch for 15 March 2020
- 9:37 Widow shares journey of healing after Christchurch mosque attack
- 9:55 3MM: Dai Henwood reflects on 25 years of Warriors fandom
- 10:06 Professor Michael Baker answers your Covid-19 questions
- 10:25 Bringing New Zealand's lost wonders back to life
- 11:05 New Zealander Angus Vail on the NYC coronavirus threat
- 11:12 3MM: Robert Griffiths on keeping Latin alive
- 11:17 Pell legal case 'the most spectacular in Australia since Lindy Chamberlain'
- 11:30 Kiwi forced to close the gates at Bethlehem University
- 11:48 Comedian Stephanie Laing brings her Butterfingers to Fringe
- 11:50 Former AB Kieran Crowley in Italian coronavirus lockdown
Sunday, 8 March 2020
- 7:10 Professor Michael Baker answers your coronavirus questions
- 7:45 Calling Home: Claire Harvey in Palau
- 8:10 Ignored by the state - How Muslim women tried to warn of impending danger
- 8:41 The New Zealander trying to tame the common cold
- 9:00 Mediawatch for 8 March 2020
- 9:37 Study shows that optimists live longer lives
- 9:53 US Correspondent: 'Presidency race picture troubling'
- 10:04 Breaking Mad: The Insider's Guide to Conquering Anxiety
- 10:40 Musician Frank Turner on the stories of 'No Man's Land'
- 11:05 Professor Stephanie Coontz: How to Make Your Marriage Gayer
- 11:40 Pop music has as much lyrical aggression as rap
- 9:50 3MM: Dr Katherine Ravenswood on International Women's Day
Sunday, 1 March 2020
- 7:10 The Kiwi living in an Italian Covid-19 danger zone
- 7:16 Study shows dairy milk 'associated with breast cancer risk'
- 7:45 Calling Home: Charles Olsen in Madrid
- 8:32 3MM: Tommy Kapai Wilson on Oranga Tamariki CEO Grainne Moss
- 8:51 Probability out the door with big Lotto prizes
- 9:08 Mediawatch for 1 March 2020
- 9:40 Popular songs have gotten sadder over 50-year period
- 10:08 Study on rabbits reveals the secret to living a longer life
- 10:38 Professor Michael Baker on NZ's coronavirus threat
- 10:49 Our Current Song: Pitch Black - 'Third Light'
- 11:06 Kids in focus at CHCH Children's Day event
- 11:15 Hackers could shut down satellites and turn them into weapons
- 11:30 US correspondent Karen Kassler on 'Super Tuesday'
- 11:44 Why trigger warnings don't help
Sunday, 23 February 2020
- 7:11 #MeToo Monday looms for Harvey Weinstein
- 7:21 Disease modeller says Covid-19 risk to NZ is very low
- 7:45 Calling Home: Jackie Miller in Liguria, Italy
- 8:10 Free speech vs hate speech: The government’s dilemma
- 8:40 Using music as medicine
- 9:10 Mediawatch for 23 February 2020
- 9:37 Why you should always keep a $100 bill in your wallet
- 9:50 Surfer buys lotto ticket after being bitten by shark
- 10:04 Sophy Roberts: The Lost Pianos of Siberia
- 10:45 COVID-19 outbreak has made China a 'pedestrian's paradise'
- 11:05 My Current Song: Noah Slee - 'America'
- 11:15 My life as a quiz obsessive
- 11:38 Whitesnake singer David Coverdale: 'There's not a misogynist bone in my body'
Sunday, 16 February 2020
- 7:10 'We took the photos' - NZ First's photo controversy
- 7:20 Political party donations in New Zealand
- 7:45 Calling Home: Duncan Clarke in Costa Rica
- 8:10 Farmers fear new water rules could push them under
- 8:37 How do we regulate death?
- 8:49 An optimistic partner is good for your health - new study
- 9:10 A model for RNZ's new youth service?
- 9:20 TVNZ chief faces future dilemma
- 9:37 Jon Duffy to take over as Chief Executive at Consumer NZ
- 10:04 The journalist who went undercover to infiltrate a white nationalist group
- 10:28 Ellen Heyting: my year of trying to buy nothing
- 10:44 The North's inhospitable hospitality towards refugees
- 11:05 The life and times of spoonbender Uri Geller
- 11:25 Indonesia's football league set to begin again under the cloud of its violent past
- 11:52 My Current Song: Kathy Bates Motel - 'Damaged Goods'
Sunday, 9 February 2020
- 8:12 How NZ would fare during a world catastrophe
- 7:10 China correspondent: "The world's most populous country is on hold"
- 7:18 Donald Trump's 'bonkers' week in US politics
- 7:30 GP warns another flu pandemic is a certainty
- 7:45 Calling Home: Victoria Hoult in Porto Alegre
- 8:41 How gardening creates a time warp
- 9:37 The Kiwi behind the US adult study hall startup
- 10:04 William Gibson: Why our 'now' is getting shorter and shorter
- 10:25 How melodic alarms could reduce morning grogginess
- 10:40 My Current Song: Blind Boy Paxton - 'Trying to Make One Hundred'
- 10:50 Beer can helps reunite woman with her dog after three years
- 11:05 Kate Murphy: You're Not Listening
- 11:30 World's longest race stretches 3,100 miles around single NYC block
Sunday, 2 February 2020
- 5:00 Why prisons should help inmates to be good dads
- 7:10 Wuhan virus is twice as virulent as Ebola
- 7:16 Hygiene practices, not masks, key to avoiding viruses
- 7:20 US correspondent Karen Kasler on the Iowa caucuses
- 7:29 'It's time for New Zealand to wake up to its poverty problem'
- 7:45 Calling Home: Costa Cotsilinis in Athens
- 8:41 Organised cybercrime is not your average mafia
- 9:06 Mediawatch for 2 February 2020
- 9:37 3MM: Allan Dick on Dunedin's war against cars
- 9:40 UK correspondent Dominic O'Connell on Brexit
- 10:04 'We're entering a new phase of earthquakes in New Zealand'
- 10:32 My Current Song: Jackie Bristow - 'Without You'
- 10:40 The innocent joy of trespassing
- 11:05 What's behind the rise of the hoarding disorder?
- 11:27 US correspondent Molly Crane-Newman on the Weinstein trial
- 11:38 The New Zealander running Bethlehem University
Sunday, 26 January 2020
- 7:12 Wuhan coronavirus continues to weave path of destruction
- 7:20 Can wireless earbuds damage your brain?
- 7:45 Calling Home: Dr. Janine Krippner in Washington D.C.
- 8:38 Burnout linked to potentially deadly irregular heartbeat
- 8:51 Online advertising behind illegal collection and use of data
- 9:08 Mediawatch for 26 January 2020
- 9:37 'Harry and Meghan were safer from the press in England'
- 9:51 Tennis correspondent David Luddy at the Australian Open
- 10:05 Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson: Letters from an Astrophysicist
- 10:35 Our Current Song: Soaked Oats - 'Coming Up'
- 10:40 The beginning and the end of Trumpism
- 11:04 Middle-age misery hits at 47.2
- 11:38 Apartners: Living happily ever apart
Sunday, 22 December 2019
- 8:12 Time's up for volunteering
- 7:11 Breakthrough study highlights true dangers of vaping
- 7:25 3MM: Chris Clarke on those we've lost in 2019
- 7:45 Mike Anstis: Calling Home from Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
- 8:42 Chronic inflammation: how can we counteract it as we age?
- 9:10 Mediawatch for 22 December 2019
- 9:45 Good news stories to wrap up the decade
- 10:05 Heatwave hell in Australia
- 10:15 Vanessa Baxter's top Christmas tips
- 10:25 Hamimah Tuyan: 'We need to learn to embrace our differences'
- 10:35 The Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving
- 10:50 Baldwin St back in the running to be world's steepest
- 11:10 'More violence in Hong Kong could be on the horizon'
- 11:30 Catherine Robertson and Stephen Franks' Year in Review
Sunday, 15 December 2019
- 7:10 'China-US resolution more of a truce than a peace deal'
- 7:13 Austin Mitchell: 'Losing to the Tories is depressing'
- 7:45 Calling Home: Rebekah Holt in Melbourne
- 8:35 An expert's guide to burn injury recovery
- 8:50 Tuia 250's lasting legacy
- 9:05 Mediawatch for 15 December 2019
- 9:45 Why Christmas songs could be bad for your mental health
- 10:06 A man alone: Travelling the world solo by motorcycle
- 10:34 Sir Peter Snell: NZ's Sportsperson of the 20th Century
- 10:50 Political hashtags make people less likely to believe the news
- 11:05 Restarting a music career after 25 years on death row
- 11:30 Why small countries are richer and happier
- 11:30 Why small countries are richer and happier
- 11:55 3MM: John Boyd on the four day working week
Sunday, 8 December 2019
- 7:10 More than two thirds of Kiwis support End of Life Choice bill
- 7:15 Austin Mitchell: 'This is the most uncertain UK election ever'
- 7:45 Calling Home: Alyn Ware in Prague
- 8:10 The Keto Diet - Trend or Treatment?
- 8:45 The tiger sharks of Norfolk Island
- 9:08 Mediawatch for 8 December 2019
- 9:37 3MM: Tommy Kapai Wilson on making a difference this Xmas
- 9:42 The hopeless hunt for Ghislaine Maxwell
- 10:08 The deadly superbugs lurking in your makeup bag
- 10:30 Vegans and the people who hate them
- 10:40 Finding the holy grail of turning plant waste into plastic
- 11:09 'The Rolling Stones were never the same band after Altamont'
- 11:32 Taranto to Trieste - following the 2nd New Zealand Division in Italy
Sunday, 1 December 2019
- 7:10 Death toll set to rise in Samoan measles outbreak
- 7:21 Queen Elizabeth tipped to retire, hand reins to Prince Charles
- 7:30 'Of the Pacific' - Why NZ MPs visit their Pacific neighbours
- 7:43 Calling Home: Kevin McCarthy in the Falkland Islands
- 8:39 Can you teach mental toughness?
- 9:43 Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb
- 10:06 The story behind the worst drubbing in football history
- 10:27 Wayne Kramer: 'As a gangster I was a complete failure'
- 10:48 Richard Easterlin: the economics of happiness
- 11:08 Richie Sadlier: "I added to the wreckage of my life every day"
- 11:30 The art of starting a conversation
Sunday, 24 November 2019
- 7:10 New Zealand teenagers among the most inactive in the world
- 7:21 Study casts doubt on the need for many heart procedures
- 7:30 House tortoise, chamber hare: how fast does Parliament work?
- 7:45 Calling Home: Pauline Curtis-Smith in the Philippines
- 8:10 How schools will try to work around the donation-ban plan
- 8:41 Worst may be yet to come in Hong Kong
- 9:06 Mediawatch for 24 November 2019
- 9:37 New credit card scam costing Kiwis thousands
- 9:48 Positive spiritual well-being associated with better mental health outcomes
- 9:48 Why you turn the radio down while trying to park your car
- 10:06 'New Zealand's biggest danger is being swamped by China'
- 10:50 The chart-topping Kiwi country star you probably haven't heard of
- 11:05 Having a best friend is worth over $150,000 in extra income
- 11:30 How does our genetic heritage influence our psychological traits
Sunday, 17 November 2019
- 7:13 Investigation claims seven Afghan children killed by NZ device
- 7:21 Cheap alcohol fuelling NZ's worsening drinking culture
- 7:30 A long passage: end of life choice
- 7:45 Calling Home: Thom Monckton in Helsinki
- 8:10 Forever home - Why immigrants chose New Zealand
- 8:39 Crisis facing courts as Chinese people seek justice in NZ
- 9:08 Mediawatch for 17 November 2019
- 9:37 3MM: Lindsay Neill on invasions of private spaces
- 9:49 How you are 'brainwashed' while you sleep
- 10:07 Queen and Coldplay are the new Beethoven and Mozart
- 10:37 The golden age of board games
- 11:05 No end in sight as Hong Kong protests enter sixth month
- 11:13 Royal correspondent dismayed by Prince Andrew interview
- 11:23 'You can't be a wimp if you want to achieve greatness'
Sunday, 10 November 2019
- 7:10 The fastest growing sport in the world is e-sports
- 7:20 Billionaire Bloomberg opens the door to presidential campaign
- 7:30 A matched set: climate bills provide full set of debates
- 7:45 Calling Home: Tony Price in Charlotte, North Carolina
- 8:10 Play time over: How Kiwi kids lost their freedom to roam
- 8:41 Why you should be worried if you own a Chinese phone
- 9:00 Mediawatch for 10 November 2019
- 9:37 Experiences will make you happier than material things
- 10:04 Rick Stein: 'I keep asking to do a New Zealand food series'
- 10:40 Descartes' dream argument remains unsolved after 400 years
- 10:51 Why it's time for the CAPS LOCK key to die
- 11:05 30 years since the Berlin wall came tumbling down
- 11:14 People who brag about their intellect aren't as smart as they think
- 11:30 Peta Mathias in the Musical Chair
Sunday, 3 November 2019
- 7:10 Rugby World Cup review with Keith Quinn
- 7:18 Exposure to chemical in plastic linked to type 2 diabetes
- 7:30 Whipping MPs for a job: What does a party whip actually do?
- 7:45 Calling Home: BB Bowness in Boston
- 8:10 Everest Descent - Can Nepal get tourists exploring off the beaten track?
- 8:41 The hunt for Asia's El Chapo
- 9:05 Mediawatch for 3 November 2019
- 9:37 Jon Potter: The man who gave his kidney to a complete stranger
- 10:04 Griff Rhys-Jones' Great Kiwi Road Trip
- 10:32 Is Ffordd Pen Llech really steeper than Baldwin St?
- 10:40 The case for whether plants can actually learn
- 11:05 Jo Wood: 'It was a lot of fun keeping up with the Stones'
- 11:30 How our obsession with performance is changing sense of self
Sunday, 27 October 2019
- 7:08 All Blacks exit Rugby World Cup in inglorious fashion
- 7:20 Survey of NZ small business wellbeing shows troubling signs
- 7:30 Parliament looks back - Parihaka and women MPs
- 7:45 Calling Home: Lorraine Cook in the Seychelles
- 8:42 The role of language in Nigerian email scams
- 9:07 Mediawatch for 27 October 2019
- 9:39 Three Minutes Max: Amy Fletcher on Deep Fakes
- 9:41 Why older people should be able to change their age
- 10:07 'Maori were hugely admiring of Cook as a leader'
- 10:41 To Hyphenate or not to Hyphenate: That is the question
- 11:05 Have we reached the end of the Periodic Table?
- 11:27 Anne Audain: 'Adversity helped make me the champion I became'
Sunday, 20 October 2019
- 7:11 Keith Quinn on the Rugby World Cup
- 7:20 Boris Johnson's Brexit deal hanging in the balance
- 7:30 Taking shots at MPs: the rules for filming the House
- 7:45 Calling Home: James Whitta in Malmö, Sweden
- 8:10 Horse racing shake-up: Selling tracks and outsourcing the TAB
- 8:41 Dr. Robert Ballard: 'I will solve the Amelia Earhart mystery'
- 9:05 Mediawatch for 20 October 2019
- 9:37 Yes, wisdom and happiness really do come with age
- 10:07 Justin Trudeau tipped to 'squeak back in' as Canadian PM
- 10:20 Christine Fernyhough: Mid-century living in the Butterfly House
- 11:05 Jung Chang: 'I still have a tremendous optimism for China'
- 11:30 Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules For Life
Sunday, 13 October 2019
- 7:11 Donald Trump's gift to ISIS
- 7:30 Parliament’s hidden fourth chamber has the best debates
- 7:45 Calling Home: Ereti Mitchell in Scone, Scotland
- 8:00 Insight Special: Local Body Elections coverage with Philippa Tolley
- 9:00 Mediawatch for 13 October 2019
- 9:06 Should hypnosis be used to convict criminals?
- 9:30 Behind the lens with a Kiwi Pulitzer Prize winner
- 10:04 The rise of Germany's new ultranationalist intelligentsia
- 10:20 Kurt Cobain's Unplugged cardigan set to fetch $200,000
- 10:50 Keith Quinn on the Rugby World Cup
- 11:05 How daydreams help shape our sense of self
- 11:22 The evolution of climate change media coverage
- 11:45 Randy Newman to tour NZ for the first time
