RNZ: Sunday Morning

Raquel Peel's PhD research at James Cook University in Townsville is on why people sabotage relationships that look to be good ones, with good people.

Saskia Maarleveld’s New Zealand accent opened the door to a most unexpected career. She lives in New York where she works as an audiobook narrator. She is nominated for Best Female Narrator 2018 in the Audies - the audiobook equivalent of the Oscars - for her work on The Alice Network by Kate Quinn.

Nicky Pellegrino's 10th book - A Year at Hotel Gondola - is out on March 27. It's a landmark moment a long way from her carpe diem moment involving the late TV broadcaster Angela D'Audney. Pellegrino's novels have themes of food, feuds, family and love, inspired by childhood memories of Italy where she spent childhood holidays - but even the author is surprised at her own success.

Some of the world’s great paintings provide clues to the food served up on 17th century tables, and how taste and diets have changed. Dr Benjamin Breen has written about the food in Renaissance paintings, and the differences to present day fare, on his Res Obscura blog.

American economist Professor Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize for his contributions to behavioural economics. By applying insights from psychological research, Thaler helps us understand people's economic decision-making. 

There are now doubts that North Korea's Kim Jong-un will actually meet with US president Donald Trump. Dr Robert Kelly is an associate professor of international relations at Pusan National University in South Korea. He's also the "BBC dad", whose Skype interview with the BBC was hilariously interrupted a year ago by his children. He talks about the likelihood of a liaison between the US and North Korean leader and why north Korea will never give up its nukes.

Obamamania in overdrive - Widodo under the radar; Visual Trumpery - the good and bad of data; sensing a story?

A major international study published in The Lancet has found antidepressants do work. Prof Andrea Cipriani is the study's lead author - he's honorary consultant psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford.

The warnings about automation and artificial intelligence changing our lives are evey increasing. Philippa Tolley asks are employers and employees a like really thinking about what lies ahead and will everyone cope with the change?

Independent indigenous schools in the southern Philippines are under threat. Pele Navarro is in New Zealand representing the Save Our Schools network of Salupongan International, an organisation dedicated to improving the education and health needs of rural Lumad Communities on Mindanao and other islands.

The House takes a look back at a week's worth of Question Time when the new opposition front bench got to try out its first jabs at the government.

The latest from the House

Denise Thornton worked at the James Cook Hotel in Wellington for 44 years. She started on the front desk at the hotel in 1974 and finished off as the Executive Housekeeper on Friday.

Celeste Oram lives in LA but is a graduate of the University of Auckland Music School and says the planned staff cuts are shortsighted.

The University of Auckland School of Music is about to undergo a major restructure that could see five staff members lose their jobs, including one of the school's two professors, Uwe Grodd, an internationally renowned flautist and conductor. Sandra Grey of the Tertiary Education Union discusses.