All episodes

Sunday, 25 October 2009

Insight: Our Relations Across the Ditch; Roger Lampen – self-help stroke recovery; Mediawatch talks to Bill Francis; Professor Antal Fekete – gold standard advocate; John Andrews – a history of European New Zealanders; Trevor Reekie uncovers a 1953 classic piece of guitar rock; Ideas: Roger Kerr - The People, Writers and Thinkers Who Influenced His Ideas

Sunday, 18 October 2009

• 8:12 Insight, Sunday 18 October: Dog Breeding
• 8:40 Jane Ginsburg
• 9:10 Mediawatch for 18 October 2009
• 9:47 Language with Dianne Bardsley
• 10:10 What's happening to the NZ coastline?
• 10:40 Notes from the South with Dougal Stevenson
• 11:05 Ideas for 18 October 2009

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Ray Columbus

Ray Columbus

Insight looks at the impact the recession is having on the media; Professor Gregory Claeys discusses capitalism; Mediawatch - newsroom diversity; Stephen Harris, 'Under a Bomber's Moon'; Ideas: Tonga’s Economic Development.

Sunday, 4 October 2009

Insight asks whether moving to a Supercity might finally unleash Auckland's economic potential; Lesley-Anne Knight, Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis; Mediawatch this week looks at the reporting of Samoa’s tsunami; Doug Stevens on fishing; Dame Anne Salmond, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, on her new book, ‘Aphrodite’s Island’; Ideas: Land Reform in Tonga.

Sunday, 27 September 2009

• 8:12 Insight for 27 September 2009: Adventure Tourism
• 8:40 Feature Interview: Sir Howard Morrison
• 9:10 Mediawatch for 27 September 2009
• 9:45 Julian Robins live in New York
• 10:10 Hazel Genn
• 11:05 Ideas for 27 September 2009: Tonga in Focus
• 11:59 Listener Feedback

Sunday, 20 September 2009

Ideas for 20 September 2009: Moana Jackson

Ideas for 20 September 2009: Moana Jackson

Author and columnist Helen Brown; Laurie Bauer, Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington; Maureen Birchfield on the life of Elsie Locke; Ideas: Moana Jackson.

Sunday, 13 September 2009

Richard Guilliatt on the WWI German raider 'The Wolf'; Richard Broinowski on 'Driven - A Diplomat's Auto-Biography'; The Sunday Group looks at the Horn Report on health reforms. Guests: Dr Murray Horn, who chaired the Ministerial Review Group which produced the report; Professor Tony Blakely from the University of Otago Wellington School of Medicine’s public health department; the President of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, Dr Jeff Brown; and Dr Dwayne Crombie, the former CEO of Waitemata DHB who is now the CEO of Bupa Care Services. Ideas looks at human rights in Papua.

Sunday, 6 September 2009

Pawel Swieboda, from Poland, is European in Residence with the New Zealand European Union Centres Network; Alistair Barry and Russell Campbell from Vanguard Films; Actor Ray Henwood on Shakespeare; Ideas: child trafficking.

Sunday, 30 August 2009

• 6:00 Mediawatch for 30 August 2009
• 8:12 Insight, Sunday 30 August: Perfect Storm
• 8:40 Dominique Walton
• 9:30 Terence O'Brien
• 10:10 The Sunday Group
• 11:06 Ideas 30 August 2009
• 11:55 Feedback

Sunday, 23 August 2009

• 8:12 Insight, Sunday 23 August: Student Housing
• 8:40 Feature interview: Matt Sanders
• 9:06 Mediawatch for 23 August 2009
• 9:30 Feature interview: Professor Hew Strachan
• 10:06 The Sunday Group: Road Safety
• 10:55 Feedback
• 11:06 Ideas: cycle friendly cities

Sunday, 16 August 2009

Dr Ines Alberdi, head of Unifem, the UN Development Fund for Women; Justin Brown and John Bougen discuss 'Bowling Through India; The Sunday Group explores liquor law reform. Law Commission president Sir Geoffrey Palmer discusses some of the main points to come out of the review then Chris Laidlaw hosts a discussion between the chief executive of the Hospitality Association Bruce Robertson and Professor Doug Sellman from the National Addiction Centre and Alcohol Action NZ. Ideas: Unemployed Workers' Movements

Sunday, 9 August 2009

Mike Moore on the film 'Battle in Seattle'; Dr Jon Johansson on his book ‘The Politics of Possibility: Leadership in Changing Times’; the Sunday Group discusses Compulsory Military Training in NZ. Guests: Ken Douglas, Peter Shirtcliffe and historian Peter Cooke. Ideas: Geneva Conventions 60th Anniversary.

Sunday, 2 August 2009

Robyn Dupuis on saving for retirement; Joseph Heath on economic fallacies; the Sunday Group looks at NZ's defence role in Afghanistan. Guests are Brigadier Tim Brewer, formerly the director-general of Reserve Forces. Tim stepped down from this job a few months ago to deploy to Afghanistan, and he’s not long back from a six-week stint gathering information for the Defence Force, to feed into the Government’s Defence Review. Also with Chris are Terence O’Brien, and Lance Beath, both Senior Fellows at the Centre for Strategic Studies in Wellington. Ideas calculates risk and Dougal Stevenson joins us with Notes from the South.

Sunday, 26 July 2009

Insight: Carbon Offsetting; Writer/director Jonathan auf der Heide, and writer/lead actor Oscar Redding talk about the film Van Diemen’s Land; crime author Linwood Barclay; the Sunday Group discusses plans to irrigate the Mackenzie basin. Guests: Dr Susan Walker, an ecologist with the crown research institute Landcare Research, who leads a research programme into the ecology and restoration of biodiversity in New Zealand's drylands ecosystems; Greg Burrell, a freshwater ecologist with Golder Associates who has done a lot of work on the environmental effects of irrigation for both the Canterbury Regional Council and backers of large irrigation schemes; John Murray, a committee member of the Upper Waitaki Applicants Group and the chairman of the Mackenzie branch of Federated Farmers; and Forest and Bird South Island Conservation Manager Chris Todd. Ideas: Free Data - New Zealand on the Net.

Sunday, 19 July 2009

Charles Brasch's literary executor Alan Roddick on the centenary of Brasch's birth; Author Jonathan Brent on 'Inside the Stalin Archives'; the Sunday Group looks at the domestic airline industry. Guests include aviation writer and consultant David Stone; aviation commentator Peter Clark and Kevin Blackford, editor of The Travel Memo, a travel and tourism online news digest. Ideas explores the changing face of New Zealand history with Caroline Daley and Felicity Barnes from the University of Auckland.

Sunday, 12 July 2009

Philippe Boncour on Climate Change and Migration in the Pacific; Professor Jeffrey Winters on Indonesia; the Sunday Group discusses Lange's legacy. Guests: Fran Wilde, Colin James and Matt McCarten. Ideas looks at Pacific leadership.

Sunday, 5 July 2009

F. Washington (Tony) Jarvis, an Episcopal priest, on the Spirituality of Boys; Colin Keating on multilateralism; the Sunday Group looks at immigration in the recession. Guests - Massey University sociologist Professor Paul Spoonley, Professor Jacques Poot of the Population Studies Centre at University of Waikato and Doctor Mary Dawson, Executive Director of the Auckland Regional Migrant Services; Ideas investigates cuts to adult education classes.

Sunday, 28 June 2009

Professor Jules Pretty on clean farming; Robert Watson on global agriculture; Sunday Group discusses rugby - guests are former All Black Captain, Sir Brian Lochore; Herald on Sunday sports editor Paul Lewis; and the Chairman of the Otago Rugby Union, former sports journalist and author, Ron Palenski. Ideas: Putting Your Life on the Line for Your Beliefs

Sunday, 21 June 2009

Professor James Mittelman on globalisation and security; Sam Hunt on the poems of James K Baxter; Sunday Group: The Child Discipline Law at Work. Guests - The Green MP responsible for the law change, Sue Bradford; Larry Baldock, leader of The Kiwi Party, who is behind the referendum; and Beth Wood, a long-time campaigner against the physical punishment of children and founder of the lobby group Epoch (End Physical Punishment of Children). Ideas - Instability in Iran.

Sunday, 14 June 2009

Photojournalist Jim MacMillan on journalism and trauma; Associate Professor Hugh Campbell on what the world food crisis means for New Zealand; the Sunday Group debates environmental reform. Guests: executive director of the Ecologic Foundation, Guy Salmon; chief executive of Environment Canterbury Dr Bryan Jenkins; former chief executive of the Ministry for the Environment Hugh Logan; and the chairman of the Environmental Defence Society, Gary Taylor. Ideas: Homelessness.

Sunday, 7 June 2009

Terry Michael on Obama's presidency so far; Tee Morris speaking geek; Sunday Group on Transition Towns. Guests: The co-founder of the Transition Network Rob Hopkins, who’s based in the UK; and from Waiheke Island James Samuel who’s the national co-ordinator for Transition Towns Aotearoa, and Gabrielle Young who is active in the movement on Waiheke. Ideas: Witch burning and the spirit world.

Sunday, 31 May 2009

• 8:12 Insight Sunday 31st May China and NZ
• 8:40 Janet November - Ethel Benjamin: NZ's first woman lawyer
• 9:30 Kevin Clements - Place of Peacemaking
• 9:55 Notes From the South
• 10:05 Sunday Group - gender pay parity
• 11:00 Ideas for 31 May 2009 - Holocaust
• 11:05 Ideas - Holocaust - Omer Bartov
• 11:35 Ideas - Holocaust - Scott Hamilton
• 12:00 Mediawatch for 31 May 2009

Sunday, 24 May 2009

• 8:12 Insight for 24 May 2009 - Pre Budget Regional Snapshot
• 8:40 John Huckerby
• 9:05 Mediawatch for 24 May 2009
• 9:40 Malcolm Fraser
• 10:05 The Sunday Group
• 10:55 Feedback
• 11:05 Ideas for 24 May 2009

Sunday, 17 May 2009

Philippe Legrain discusses the benefits of migration and ethnic diversity; George Friedman talks about his book 'The Next 100 Years'; The Sunday Group discusses the battle in Pakistan. Guests include Sudha Ramachandran; Dr Michael McKinley; and Dr Samina Yasmeen. Ideas looks at crime and punishment.

Sunday, 10 May 2009

Stefan Aust on the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group; Dr Deidre Brown on Maori architecture; Sunday Group discusses Maori and Parliament. Guests include: Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell; Labour MP Nanaia Mahuta; Green MP Metiria Turei; and senior lecturer in politics from Otago University, Dr Janine Hayward. Dougal Stevenson's Notes from the South and Ideas looks at the Future of Journalism.