Sunday Morning

Dr Ali Hill from the Human Nutrition department of Otago University is back once again. On her nutrition agenda this Sunday morning, the role of Vitamin C with Covid, staying hydrated, salt cravings and the perfect food.

On her @depthsofwikipedia blog, Annie Rauwerda compiles some of Wikipedia's more bizarre pages. One such page, started by an anonymous Wikipedia editor with the username "cgbuff" chronicles the increasing number of Russian oligarchs linked to large energy companies that keep dying in weird ways.

According to the UK's Golf News magazine 500,000 New Zealanders play golf or at least belonging to a club and there are nearly 400 golf courses across the country. Sometimes our players are world beaters too, like Bob Charles and Michael Campbell, and right now Lydia Ko and of course, Ryan Fox, the son of All Blacks great Grant Fox. His famous dad and his Mum Adele were in the crowd for his big win earlier this month in the Alfred Dunhill championship at St. Andrews. This year has seen Ryan's ascent into the top ranks of world golf, and there are still tournaments to go for him.

PM's exit speculation goes another round; a doco revival spotlights crime and justice; on the overlap: rugby TV clashes create controversy.

On Calling Home, we head to the city of Lausanne on Lake Geneva, it's been voted the best small city in the world, in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Vaud. It's home to athlete and former Olympian, Rebecca Wardell. She now works at the International Olympic Committee headquarters. Lausanne also boasts the Olympic Museum and the Olympic Park on the lake shore. Away from the lake, the city rises in terraces, with plenty of shopping in mediaeval precincts, and there's an impressive 12th century cathedral in the gothic style.

As long COVID touches our lives more and more, the scientific community are rushing to catch up - hindered in no small way by the wide-range of symptoms and severity. Some research is however beginning to join up some of the dots. New Zealand's Dr Richard Webby is a prominent infectious diseases researcher at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

Between T20 cricket, the All Blacks playing Japan, the Rugby World Cup quarter-final game against Wales and the Rugby League World Cup there's lots to talk about with RNZ Sports journalist Joe Porter.

Journalist John Campbell's latest podcast premieres on Labour Day on TVNZ. From Egmont to Taranaki "is a personal story of Pakeha me. Who didn't know what I didn't know, until I began discovering it."

The Chinese Communist Party's 20th Congress looks set to give Xi Jinping his unprecedented third term in office as the secretary general of the party. The Party has ruled China since 1949, but it's facing its most difficult economic challenges in 30 years, with GDP predicted to grow between 2 and 3 percent compared with highs of 6-7 percent over the past decade. University of Waikato International Law Professor Dr Al Gillespie is the author of multi-volume books on the Causes of War, and A History Of The Laws of War. And most recently, People, Power & Law: A New Zealand History.

Anna Bibby is living that life that many of us fantasise about living, in France. She's been in a charming old village surrounded by walnut groves; then it was a charming old village surrounded by grape vines. Anna Bibby is calling home this morning from the Gironde region of France, in the south-west, on the Bay of Biscay, near the city of Bordeaux, surrounded by a countryside dotted with vineyards and old chateaux. Anna was born in Wellington then later owned a well-known gallery in Auckland's Herne Bay, and then, in her fifties, 12 years ago, she just moved to France. "If you want a final adventure, jump now" It's been a considerable adventure. Anna Bibby has written a book, it's called Learning to be French (and failing).