Colin Peacock

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin talks to Karyn about Newshub serving up a scoop with fish battering Winston Peters - and two politicians who sought out the media spotlight… Audio

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin talks to Karyn about Newshub serving up a scoop with fish battering Winston Peters - and two politicians who sought out the media spotlight… Audio

Stuff published the first edition of its climate change initiative The Forever Project in late March - the very day we went into lockdown. Understandably, it didn't make much impact but this week it’s… Audio

It's 30 years since 'Eagle Rock' reached number one on the New Zealand charts, 19 years after its release. Daddy Cool frontman Ross Wilson joins the show. Audio

Later this year New Zealanders will be able to cast their vote on whether euthanasia should be legal as the long-debated End of Life Choice Bill goes to referendum. Journalist Caralise Trayes… Audio

New research shows privacy and community are often exploited by bad actors, foreign and domestic, to spread false information and conspiracies. Nina Jankowicz is the disinformation fellow at the… Audio

New research by psychologists at the University of York looks at those highly irritating and often embarrassing moments such as forgetting where you parked the car.  Audio

University of Wyoming psychologist Laverl Z. Williamson's research shows that if you want to improve your self-control, you need to focus on proactively reducing, rather than reactively overpowering… Video, Audio

Stanford University lecturer and health psychologist Dr. Kelly McGonigal is a long-time stress advocate who says adjusting the way you think about stress can actually change the way your body responds… Audio

Australian correspondent Rebekah Holt joins the show from the inner north of Melbourne, which has the city's highest community transmission rates, with the latest. Audio

Veteran film critic Richard Brody from The New Yorker is with us to discuss whether the movies need multiplexes anymore as we negotiate a brave new world with Covid-19. Audio

More details emerge over isolation and quarantine failures at the border, raising urgent questions about the risk of further transmission COViD-19. But the media also raised the level of alarm… Audio

The documentary film Influence lifts the lid on how one of the world’s biggest PR companies - Bell Pottinger - destroyed itself when its unethical conduct in South Africa was exposed. Mediawatch asks… Video, Audio

Lawyer and scholar Christine Loh Kung-wai joins the show to discuss unease surrounding new national security legislation which largely being kept under wraps by top Chinese lawmakers.  Audio

David Clark supposedly throwing Ashley Bloomfield under the bus, New Zealand First's tactics, political polls and the rest of the world and Covid-19 - and what it means for New Zealand - are on the… Audio

Director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre, Dr Nikki Turner, explains why we are still seeing a lot of winter illnesses, despite all the hand washing, and backs an inquiry into NZ's pandemic… Audio

Parliament is moving through the motions as the Government tries to tick off as many bills as possible before September's general election. The House looks at what a motion is and how they move it. Audio