All episodes

Sunday, 31 August 2014

7:08 Current Affairs; 8:12 Insight: The Realities of Auckland; 8:40 Donna Swift – Violence Among Girls; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Lee Child – Reacher Madness; 10:30 Dan Pearson – Pop Up Dining; 10:45 Anna Leese – Star Soprano; 11:05 Wellington’s Architectural Centre; 11:45 Gordon McBean – Climate Concerns

Sunday, 24 August 2014

7:08 Current Affairs; 8:12 Insight: The Big Election Issues; 8:40 Andrew Geddis – Bloggers Behaving Despicably; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 George Blaisdell and Steve Pointing – Climate Change and Antarctica; 10:30 Jane Ussher – Photographing Antarctic Huts; 10:45 Murray Burns – Mi-Sex Ride a New Wave; 11:05 Hew Strachan – Remembering WW1; 11:30 Waimarama Anderson & Leah Bell – Remembering the NZ Wars; 11:45 Henry Reynolds - Remembering Australia’s Frontier Wars

Sunday, 17 August 2014

7:08 Current Affairs; 8:12 Insight: The Politics of Immigration; 8:40 Molly Oldfield – Down in the Museum Basement; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Nicky Hager – Dirty Politics; 10:40 Simon Keller – Dirty Politics: an ethical minefield; 11:05 Bruce Ansley – Sailing with South Sea Vagabonds; 11:25 Vela Manusaute – Pasifika in Edinburgh; 11:35 Gilad Lotan – Social Media and Personal Bias

Sunday, 10 August 2014

7:08 Current Affairs; 8:12 Insight: Degrees of Performance; 8:40 Ari Seth Cohen – Fashionably Old; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Joanna Preston – The Dark Feathered Art of Poetry
10:35 David Doubilet – An Underwater Life; 11:06 John Demartini – Digital Distraction11:26 Jennifer Frost – Let’s Talk About Gossip; 11:43 Kerryann Dunlop – Joining the First 15 of Cookery

Sunday, 3 August 2014

7:08 Current Affairs; 8:12 Insight: Future Food Security - Feast or Famine?; 8:40 Sharon Jones – Soul Survivor; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Bill Bailey – Life and Limboland; 10:30 Heather Hendrickson – Superbugs; 11:05 Nathan Consedine – Emotional Voting; 11:25 Dean Brettschneider – Passion for Dough; 11:45 Anna Cottrell – Great War Stories

Sunday, 27 July 2014

7:08 Current Affairs; 8:12 Insight: Identifying NZ’s Most Vulnerable Kids; 8:40 Susan Bissell – Girl Summit; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 David Armitage – Big History; 10:35 Meg Wolitzer – New Novel; 11:05 Rawiri Paratene – Touring the globe with Shakepeare's Globe Theatre; 11:30 Rebecca Wadey – Free Yoga Classes for Cancer Patients; 11:45 Shaun Holt - The Evidence for Complementary Cancer Therapies

Sunday, 20 July 2014

7:08 Politics, news, current affairs, sport; 8:12 Insight: The Future of West Coast Mining; 8:40 Richard Egan; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint; 10:07 The Troubles; 10:29  Greg Olear; 10:48: Transgender Statistics; 11:05 The Intellectual Commons

Sunday, 13 July 2014

7:08 News and Current Affairs; 8:12 Insight: Can the Commonwealth Games Survive?; 8:40 Diane Coyle – Enlightened Economics; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Garth McVicar and Kim Workman – the people, books and events that shaped their ideas; 11:05 Charles Dennard – Cirque du Soleil; 11:25 Paora Joseph – Voices from the River; 11:40 Gerard Johnstone – Housebound

Sunday, 6 July 2014

7:08 News and Current Affairs; 8:12 Insight: NZ's Tiptoe Relationship with the US and China; 8:40 Conor English – On the Farm; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Margaret Sparrow – Abortion in the 19th-Century; 10:30 Frédéric Tcheng – Inside Dior; 11:05 Anna Guenther – Crowd Funding Business; 11:25 Shaun Holt – Medicinal Honey; 11:40 Lucy Green – Dancing Life

Sunday, 29 June 2014

7:08 News and Current Affairs; 8:12 Insight: Japan’s Post Earthquake Progress; 8:40 Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard – 20,000 Days on Earth; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Tara Moss – The Fictional Woman; 10:35 Gaylene Preston – Hope and Wire; 11:05 Brazil in Focus

Sunday, 22 June 2014

7:08 News and Current Affairs; 8:12 Insight: The Burden of the Christchurch Rebuild; 8:40 Lucy Daeth – All Right? Christchurch; 8:50 Julia Holden – #WishYouWereHereChch; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Writers on Writing; 10:40 Irene Gardiner – Matariki on Screen; 11:05 Child Poverty: The Young People, and the Other Experts

Sunday, 15 June 2014

7:08 Politics, news, current affairs, sport; 8:12 Insight: A Defence Force Facing Change; 8:40 News and current affairs; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint; 10:06 Tuma Hazou – The PLO at 50; 10: 30 David Robie – Human rights in the Pacific; 11:05 Jason Schon Bennett – Eat Less and Live Long; 11:25 Chris Howard – Travel and the Digital Umbilical Cord; 11:40 Warwick Henderson – Collecting Art

Sunday, 8 June 2014

Historian Jock Phillips

Historian Jock Phillips

7:08 Politics, news, current affairs, sport; 8:12 Insight: Tourism’s Lofty Goals; 8:40 Tracey Barnett – Quiet War on Asylum; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint; 10:06 Michael Lewis – Flash Boys; 10:40 Max Lambert – Kiwi Fliers and the fall of Germany; 11:05 Jock Phillips

Sunday, 1 June 2014

7:08 News and Current Affairs; 8:12 Insight: High Stakes in the High Country; 8:40 News and Current Affairs; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Jade Herriman – Repair Cafes; 10:25 David Katz – Plastic Bank; 10:40 Chris Bourke and Redmer Yska – Beatles Down Under; 11:05 Down the List; 11:12 Kirsti Whalen – Prize Poet; 11:30 Sophie Jerram and Mark Amery – Urban Dream; 11:45 Roller Derby Grand Slam

Sunday, 25 May 2014

7:08 News and Current Affairs; 8:12 Insight: Ngapuhi and Settlement Anguish; 8:40 Alasdair Roberts – State Secrets; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 John Weaver – Suicide Beyond Depression; 10:25 Sheri Fink – Life and Death in Hurricane Katrina; 10:50 Unexpected Review; 11:05 Down the List; 11:12 Patrick Clifford – Architecture Gold Standard; 11:30 Paul Harrison – Psychology of Shopping; 11:45 Eleanor Ozich – Simple Food

Sunday, 18 May 2014

8:12 Insight: Maori Women Speak Up; 8:40 Ross Bell – Drug Debate; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Neill Duncan – Still Making Music; 10:30 Mary Wareham – Killer Robots; 10:40 Ben Howe and Brotha D – 15 years in the business; 11:05 Down the List; 11.12 Louise Laxley - Budget, Aussie-style; 11:20 Camilla Läckberg – Crime Queen; 11:45 Miriam O’Connor and Martine Harding – Capital Culture.

Sunday, 11 May 2014

7:08 Politics, news, current affairs, sport; 8:12 Insight: Funding Therapy to Protect Children from Abuse; 8:40 Ronlyn Domingue – Death Penalty; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Jang Jin-sung – Secrets of North Korea; 10:20 Dave Dobbyn with ‘Dreams Lie Deeper’; 10:30 Adam Johnson – North Korean Love Story; 10.50 Shona McCullagh and Michael Parmenter – Dance; 11.05 Down the List; 11.12 Owen Marshall – Carnival Sky; 11.35 Gary Numan – Electronica Legend

Sunday, 4 May 2014

7:08 Politics, news, current affairs, sport; 8:12 Insight: Tax For the Future; 8:40 Disharmony in NZ Music Month; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Sexuality and Spirituality; 10:20 Everyday Sexism; 10:40 Dealing with Eating Disorders; 11:05 Down the List; 11:12 The Self and the Brain; 11:30 Ferran Adria and El Bulli; 11:45 Colony on Mars

Sunday, 27 April 2014

7:08 Politics, news, current affairs, sport; 8:12 Insight: Educators from around the world on what makes the top education systems so good; 8:40 News, current affairs; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Linda Bryder – ‘The rise and fall of National Women's Hospital’; 10:38 Lucy Hughes Hallett – Gabriele D'Annunzio; 11.05 Down the List; 11.13 Frank Dikotter – ‘The Tragedy of Liberation’; 11: 30 Andrew Solomon - 'Far from the Tree - Parents, Children and the Search for Identity'; 11:50: Nicky Hager - 'Other People’s Wars.

Sunday, 20 April 2014

7:08 Politics, news, current affairs, sport; 8:12 Insight: Marine Reserves - Important Protection or Tokenism?; 8:40 News, current affairs; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Andrew McAlpine –  Film Design; 10:20 Julian Clary – Looking for Love; 10:40 Richard Holdaway – Mining the Moon; 11:05 Easter Service from the Transitional Cathedral

Sunday, 13 April 2014

7:08 Politics, news, current affairs, sport; 8:12 Insight: New Zealand’s Love Affair with China; 8:40 Crime in South Africa; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Fashion Victims; 10:40 Reg Mombassa; 11.05 Down the List; 11.12 Fiona Fraser – Royal Tour; 11.25 Helen Berry – Making Ourselves Extinct; 11:40 Rosie Belton – Wild Cook

Sunday, 6 April 2014

• 7:10 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• 7:24 Election in Afghanistan
• 7:28 Solomon Islands flash flooding
• 7:35 Fiji Elections
• 7:46 Tsunami siren testing
• 7:50 Sport
• 8:15 Insight for 6 April 2014 - Water Wars
• 8:35 Ron Hanson - Sunflower Movement
• 8:55 Max Rashbrooke - young people and inequality
• 9:06 Mediawatch for 6 April 2014
• 9:40 Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint
• 10:06 Tony Robinson - War Stories
• 10:25 Monica Dux - Pregnancy Pressure
• 10:46 Jeremy Hansen - House and Home
• 11:00 Down the List for 6 April 2014
• 11:12 Tim Wilson - News Pigs
• 11:25 Johnson Witehira - Visual Culture
• 11:54 Miho Wada - Playing the Jazz Flute

Sunday, 30 March 2014

Li Cunxin - Dancing for Mao

Li Cunxin - Dancing for Mao

7:08 Politics, news, current affairs, sport; 8:12 Insight: Auckland's Housing Crisis – A Year of Change?; 8:40 Bill McKay – State Houses; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint; 10:06 Music: Richard James Burgess; 10:45 Alain de Botton – News You Can Use; 11:05 Down the List; 11:12 Li Cunxin – Dancing for Mao; 11:50 Melina Schamroth – Gratitude Month

Sunday, 23 March 2014

8:12 Insight: Asking for Help – Mental Health in NZ; 8:40 Alexander McCall Smith – Auden’s Guide to Life; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Anu Kultalahti – The Death of Cao Shunli; 10:06 Freedom to Broadcast Hate; 10.35 Europe’s Troublemakers; 11.05 Down the List; 11.12 Rosemary Foot – Tension in the Asia-Pacific Region; 11.40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint

Sunday, 16 March 2014

8:12 Insight: Online Health On the Way; 8:40 PJ O’Rourke – Me and My Generation; 9:06 Mediawatch; 9:40 Zoe George – From the Outfield; 10:06 Brazil: Fighting Slavery; 10:35 Europe’s Troublemakers; 11.05 Down the List; 11.12 Margaret Heffernan – Taking on Competition; 11.40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint