All episodes

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.

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.