RNZ: Sunday Morning

The investigation into Cambridge Analytica is ongoing. It's alleged to have harvested the information of millions of Facebook users and used it to profile and target voters during the US election and Brexit campaigns. There's outrage, but should we be surprised this has happened? Internet NZ Chief Executive Jordan Carter explains the issues.

The latest from the House

The political year picks up energy with a tit-for-tat and we look at who is and isn't honourable.  

The Greens have given up asking ‘patsy’ questions. But could they just ask hard ones instead? And why ask questions at all?

Each sitting day in the House MPs work their way through business which is set out on the order paper. Here's what they plan to get through this week.

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American musician Jason Isbell's music has been described as alternative country or southern rock, but he prefers to not put a label on it. Jason Isbell is playing in the Auckland Town Hall on 27 March. He talks about his music and how Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries helped him through his recovery from alcoholism.

It's been called the best series on the internet you've never heard of. High Road is written by former Chills bassist Justin Harwood and actor Mark Mitchinson, who stars as a washed-up British rock star starting a new life in New Zealand. The original web series is being reworked as Lightbox's first commissioned series.

Michael Barker of blues roots duo Swamp Thing talks about how his and Grant Haua's music has evolved and plays two songs, "Rotten" and "By Your Side" He's joined by Brett Adams of The Bads for this interview. 

Alex Ross is the music critic for The New Yorker and the author of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century. He will appear at the Auckland Writers Festival and talk about his latest work, on composer Richard Wagner. Alex Ross is also undertaking an eight-centre tour with Chamber Music New Zealand.

Hayley Gray is executive producer of Weta Gameshop, a division of Weta Workshop five years in the making. Weta Gameshop will be officially launched on March 19, teaming up with "mixed reality" developers Magic Leap. Their first game will be Dr Grordbort's Invaders. Hayley Gray, who divides her time between Wellington, Sydney and Florida as Weta Gameshop's lead production and business strategist, explains what Weta has been up to.

Flood of opinion follows Labour's summer camp revelations; pioneering digital journalist Cory Doctorow urges NZ to free up copyright law; NBR's boss pushes subscriber-funded journalism; Korean correction.

Dr Mary Fowler has science in her DNA. She's the great granddaughter of Ernest Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford of Nelson, the New Zealand scientist considered the father of nuclear physics. But Mary Fowler has paved her own path despite the genes, she's an award-winning geophysicist and Master of Darwin College in Cambridge. She was in NZ recently to open the new $220 million Rutherford Regional Science and Innovation Centre at the University of Canterbury.

Childcare is booming, but cracks are starting to show. John Gerritsen talks to teachers about how tight funding and corner-cutting is making some centres dangerous for children.

Mental Health advocate Mike King is travelling from Bluff to Cape Reinga with seven others riding 50cc scooters. Along the way he's talking to young people about mental health in the "I am Hope Tour". King and his group started their journey on March 1 and on March 18, they're half way. Mike King talks about what they've achieved so far.