Sunday Morning

8:10 Ali Hill: The Nutrition Edition 

Dr Ali Hill from Otago University's Department of Human Nutrition is back on Sunday Morning again.  This time we’re digesting the five-a-day advice – and if we’re heeding it. 

8:20 The Sunday Morning Quiz with Jack Waley-Cohen 

Our Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back for another Sunday Morning quiz. 

Jack is the mind behind the questions on BBC quiz show ‘Only Connect’ which is known for being both difficult to crack and totally obvious.   

It’s Sunday morning, so wake up your brain and have a go!     

8:25 Should men use moisturiser? 

Dr Michelle Wong is a cosmetic chemist and science communicator who runs the popular Lab Muffin Beauty Science blog where she tests skin products – turning her into a global beauty influencer.  

She’s here to answer our burning questions about the latest and greatest – or not so great - of the beauty world.   

8:45 Fergus Grady at Cannes  

New Zealand’s biggest film festival is back for its 18th year. ‘The French Film Festival Aotearoa’ launches on the 30th of May and will run across the country throughout June. 

This year Rangiora, Blenheim and Whanganui have been added to the locations list and Festival Director, Fergus Grady - who is a filmmaker himself (Gloriavale, Camino Skies) – has plans to grow the festival further into regional New Zealand over the next few years making French films accessible to an even broader audience.  

Fergus chats to Jim Mora from the Cannes Film Festival, where he’s currently busy viewing and selecting films for next year’s festival along with other international titles to be released in Aotearoa. 

9:00 Mediawatch 

Mediawatch this week looks at how a long-running plan to reform the oversight of our media has come to a sudden stop - and what the consequences might be.  

Also: why public toilets suddenly became political this week. 

9:40 Calling Home: Thomas Powers in LA 

We're heading to Hollywood today. Thomas Powers is a Kiwi living in LA. You might recognise his name as being one half of the hit-making indie electronic band from Auckland, 'The Naked and Famous'. He’s set to release his debut LP 'A Tyrant Crying in Private’ this year under his real name. 

He’s calling home from LA to chat with Jim about the transition from Auckland to Hollywood and navigating the music scene abroad. 

10:10 Why China’s Cultural Revolution Still Matters  

Tania Branigan spent seven years as The Guardians China correspondent and was stationed in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution – where at least two million people died. 

More than 50 years on, the Cultural Revolution's scar still runs through the heart of Chinese society. Tania's first book, 'Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution' explores the stories of those who are driven to confront the era that most have been encouraged to forget. 

Currently, Tania is the Guardians foreign leader writer. She speaks to Jim from London. 

10: 30 Deo Kato: Running the length of Africa 

Deo Kato is an ultra/trail runner, coach, and activist currently running the length of Africa. That’s 9,000 miles from Cape Town to London. Why? To highlight the story of human migration in the fight against racial discrimination. It’s a world-first endurance feat with a message. The challenge is an extension to the 381 days running for justice campaign that he formed after the murder of George Floyd. 

10:45 The headlines we didn’t read 

Mary Argue is back guiding us through the latest weird and wonderful headlines from the world of science.  

11:10 The mind-body connection to recover faster 

Time heals all wounds, the saying goes, but our thoughts play a rather important part in determining how long that recovery time is. 

Ellen Langer is a professor of psychology at Harvard University and her most recent book, ‘The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health’, presents, among other things, several studies on mind-body unity and its potential to improve health and well-being. 

11: 35 Ed Simon: Relics 

Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which stretches beyond their literal importance. Whether the bone of a Catholic martyr or Jimi Hendrix's guitar pick, relics are the objects which the faithful understand as being more than just objects. Material things of sacred importance, relics are indicative of a culture's deepest values. 
 
Ed Simon is an essayist, author, and the Editor-in-Chief for Belt Magazine . He talks to Jim Mora about his latest work, ‘Relic: Object Lessons’, is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.