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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.

Sunday, 3 May 2009

Matthew Gerrie on the Innocence Project New Zealand; Cynthia Laberge on national security interests versus our right to privacy. The Sunday Group debates the public service. Guests include: PSA General Secretary Brenda Pilott; Dr Chris Eichbaum from the School of Government at Victoria University; and Northern Employers and Manufacturers Association chief executive Alasdair Thompson. In Ideas, former Finance Minister Michael Cullen discusses his almost three decades in Parliament.

Sunday, 26 April 2009

Helen Beaglehole on the daily lives of lighthouse keepers; CC Humphreys on Vlad the Impaler; the Sunday Group discusses tourism. Guests include: Tourism Industry Association chief executive Tim Cossar; Ngai Tahu Tourism General Manager for the Southern Region David Kennedy; and Tourism New Zealand chief executive George Hickton. Dougal Stevenson with his Notes from the South.

Sunday, 19 April 2009

Jeff Hopkins-Weise on the genesis of the ANZAC relationship; James McNeish on Jack Lovelock; The Sunday Group discusses Fiji. Guests include: RNZ Pacific Issues Correspondent Richard Pamatatau; Constitutional lawyer and advisor to the Great Council of Chiefs, Janet Mason; Adjunct Professor from the University of the South Pacific, Crosbie Walsh; and David Neilson, a senior lecturer in the Department of Societies and Culture at Waikato University.

Sunday, 12 April 2009

Mark Cabaj on philanthropy and social innovation; Professor Richard Gunderman on generosity; Sunday Group discusses cars. Guests include Dave Moore, Group Motoring Editor for Fairfax NZ; Sandy Myhre, editor of ‘One Lady Owner’ in the Herald on Sunday; and National Business Review motoring editor Peter Gill. Ideas looks at the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Sunday, 5 April 2009

Professor Ngaire Woods on global economic governance; David Shand on Auckland becoming a super-city; the Sunday Group discusses the demise of the TVNZ charter. Guests include: media commentator and broadcaster Tom Frewen, television reviewer for the Dominion-Post Linda Burgess, and the chief executive of Mediaworks NZ – which owns TV3 – Brent Impey.

Sunday, 29 March 2009

Professor Paul Collier, author, Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places; Hugh Templeton discusses Sir Carl Berendsen; The Sunday Group looks at the work and legacy of George Augustus Selwyn, Anglican Bishop of New Zealand, and his wife Sarah Selwyn. Guests include the Reverend Doctor Allan Davidson, lecturer at St Johns College and at Auckland University; the Reverend Doctor Janet Crawford, a former lecturer at St Johns, and the former Archbishop of New Zealand, the Right Reverend Sir Paul Reeves. Ideas investigates One Hundred Years of Drug Prohibition.

Sunday, 22 March 2009

New York Times foreign correspondent Dexter Filkins on covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; film director Peter Askin on Dalton Trumbo and the blacklisted Hollywood 10; the Sunday Group looks at progress on the UN Millennium Development Goals - guests include the director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign, Salil Shetty; Director of Development Studies at Victoria University, Professor John Overton; and the Minister for Community Development in Papua New Guinea, Dame Carol Kidu. Ideas looks at NZ policing the Pacific.

Sunday, 15 March 2009

Author Rob Ryan on his book 'Death on the Ice" about Scott's expedition to the South Pole; Zimbabwe MDC Senator David Coltart on how the new power-sharing government is working; the Sunday Group discusses integrated schools. Guests include PPTA president Kate Gainsford, the executive director of the Association of Proprietors of Independent Schools, Brother Pat Lynch; and retired senior lecturer from the University of Canterbury's Education Department, Dr Colin McGeorge. Ideas investigates marine reserves.

Sunday, 8 March 2009

Journalist Stephan Faris on the social consequences of climate change; Dr Jon Fraenkel on the Fiji judiciary; Sunday Group - three NZ Trade and Enterprise regional directors, Tim Green, Alan Koziarski, and Richard Laverty discuss business conditions and consumer sentiment. Ideas: Indigenous Constitutions - Bolivia Today - Aotearoa tomorrow?

Sunday, 1 March 2009

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres; Architect Ian Athfield; Sunday Group: Out of Work. Guests - NZCTU president Helen Kelly; Paul Blair from the Rotorua People's Union and Peter Townsend, chief executive of the Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce. Ideas - the life of Dr Ian Prior.

Sunday, 22 February 2009

Zimbabwe's Minister of Education David Coltart discusses the challenges ahead for the unity government; author Simon Reid-Henry talks about his book, 'Fidel Che: A Revolutionary Friendship; the Sunday Group discusses the future of rail in New Zealand. Guests - : Chris Kissling, Professor of Transport Studies, Lincoln University; Dave Heatley, research fellow at VUW Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation; Mike Lee, Chairman, Auckland Regional Council.

Sunday, 15 February 2009

Novelist Alexander McCall Smith shares the secrets of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency; Professor David Karoly discusses the impact of climate change on the Australian bushfires; the Sunday Group asks 'should Creation stories be taught as part of the science curriculum in NZ schools?' - guests include Professor Allen Rodrigo, Bernard Beckett and Professor Bill Martin. Ideas asks if co-operatives are part of the solution to the current financial crisis.

Sunday, 8 February 2009

Journalist John Carlin talks about his book, 'Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation'; Alastair Campbell discusses life after Tony Blair and his debut novel, 'All in the Mind'; The Sunday Group discusses the philosophical underpinnings of John Key's National Government and we play part two of the Ideas programme on conscientious objectors.

Sunday, 1 February 2009

Singer and 'Amici Forever' creator Geoff Sewell; author Neville Peat; the Sunday Group discusses the political and social landscape of NZ before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Guests - Dr Claudia Orange, historian and Director of History and Pacific Cultures at Te Papa; historian Dr Peter Adams; and Dr Manuka Henare, Associate Dean of Maori Pacific Development at the University of Auckland Business School.

Sunday, 25 January 2009

The 'Best of Sunday Morning 2008' summer series ends today with interviews on the topic of international relations. We start with a Sunday Group discussion following the US presidential elections and the NZ general election. Chris Laidlaw then talks to James Kynge about China's place in the world, and to Susie Latham about Australia's treatment of asylum seekers.

Sunday, 18 January 2009

The 'Best of Sunday Morning 2008' summer series continues with interviews on the topic of Africa. Chris Laidlaw interviews David Coltart on Zimbabwe, Richard Vokes about the Congo, and FW de Klerk and Helen Zille in South Africa.

Sunday, 11 January 2009

The 'Best of Sunday Morning 2008' summer series continues with interviews on the topic of conflict. We repeat interviews about East Timor, New Zealand's first fighter squadron and the fall of Singapore during the Second World War, Major General Howard Kippenberger, and relations between India and Pakistan.

Sunday, 4 January 2009

The 'Best of Sunday Morning 2008' summer series continues with interviews on the topic of the environment and sustainability. We repeat interviews with Professor Michael Northcott, Dr Ron Colman and Gwynne Dyer.

Sunday, 28 December 2008

In the first of the 'Best of Sunday Morning 2008' for the summer, we repeat interviews with poets Brian Turner and Sam Hunt, and artist Grahame Sydney.