Sunday Morning

Oscar Pistorius was back in the headlines this week after he moved closer to Reeva Steenkamp's family ahead of reconciliation talks that could lead to his early release from prison. Journalist Tim Rohan offers an update.

In terms of well-worn rock back stories, Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water must just about take the cake. Former Supergroove member Nick Atkinson looks at the song that includes one of the most famous riffs in rock history.

Harvard professor of human evolutionary biology and author of the new book, Exercised, Daniel Lieberman explains how we evolved to be physically active, but we never evolved to do physical activity that's not rewarding.

Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood and celebrated Kiwi entertainer Rietta Austin are in the race for the UK's hotly-contested Christmas #1 market with their new single, 'It's Christmas, Merry Christmas!'

Dr Francis Hunter and his wife Mandana moved to Philadelphia about this time three years ago. They got in one "relatively normal" year and then Covid arrived and turned everything upside down. But they are loving the experience.

Spotlight swings onto new National's new leader; an anti-intensification housing media blitz; RNZ's 'Tahi' - 'the one' for rangatahi?

Dr Anne Unkenstein is a neuropsychologist and author of the book Memory-wise: How memory works and what to do when it doesn't. She's with us to look at misremembering and why our memory isn't probably as bad as we think.

On the Panel this morning are Mike Williams and Janet Wilson. They look at whether the media are giving new National leader Christopher Luxon a fair go, the billion-dollar climate action package, and rates hikes for Aucklanders.

Dr Gary McLean is a researcher at Imperial College as well as being a Professor of molecular immunology at London Metropolitan University, and an international authority on coronaviruses. He joins the show for an update on Omicron.

Author Renée Hollis admits she was a bit overwhelmed by the response she received when she put out a call on RNZ National for listeners to send her untold stories, letters, diaries and photographs from World War II. The Dunedin writer received over 100 responses from families and the end result of her mammoth project (which at one stage included over one million words), Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories, has just been released in time for Christmas. The visually stunning compendium of photos and written accounts offers a snapshot of what life was like before and during WWII, from the point of view of those who lived through it. Hollis joins the show to discuss Voices of World War and the incredible response she received from families with untold WWII stories.