Three Minutes Max, short & sharp opinions from commentators around New Zealand. Here's author Nicky Pellegrino talking about her beef with literary snobbery.

New Zealand's longest running music festival, Splore, is on again this weekend. Festival director John Minty speaks to Jim about the event's 20th anniversary.

Each week Sunday Morning gets in touch New Zealanders living abroad. This week we speak to Shannon Campbell who's living in the German capital, Berlin.

A day at Parliament can include many different things and this week Parliament finished a 13-hour debate, heard an MP's first speech, and was reminded of in-House rules.

Three Minutes Max, short & sharp opinions from commentators around New Zealand. Here's Sir Bob Harvey with his thoughts on what's been happening in with the rahui on the regional parks to stop the spread of Kauri die back.

In spite of the financial demise of the company behind the ambitious plans to colonise the red planet, New Zealand Mars One applicant, Saeed Ghandhari, is hopeful the project will still go ahead.

Karen Kasler, a political journalist, talks about the release this coming week of the long-awaited Mueller report in the U.S.

A number of big events have been planned for the weekend against a backdrop of weather warnings.  Weather Watch's Philip Duncan talks about the forecast.

Parliament has lots of rules. Many are there to maintain 'reasonable order', which is a tough ask in a place built specially so people could disagree with each other vehemently.

Parliament is a gentle place where questions are asked and answers politely heard. Yeah right. Sometimes in the House the main instrument of debate is sheer noise.