Sunday Morning

Iran has launched dozens of drones and missiles at Israel, in an attack that may trigger a major escalation between the regional archenemies. Iran's Revolutionary Guard confirmed it has targeted specific places in Israel. Iran had vowed retaliation for what it called an Israeli strike on its Damascus consulate on April 1 that killed seven Revolutionary Guards officers including two senior commanders. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the attack. The United States is pledging to back Israel. Waikato University's International Law professor Alexander Gillespie gives us his analysis of the escalating situation.

Six people are confirmed dead after a knife attack on Saturday at Sydney's Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre. We speak to ABC correspondent Joe Hathaway-Wilson.

Ophthalmologist Stephen Best can work modern-day miracles. For the past 25 years, the glaucoma specialist has removed cataracts, prevented blindness, and restored sight to hundreds, if not thousands of people.

Ketamine - an anaesthetic drug primarily developed as a horse tranquiliser - is also known to be a powerful psychedelic.

'Should I Stay or Should I Go?' is not confined to The Clash's back catalogue, it's a dilemma we face constantly.

RNZ producer, Mary Argue, has been reading all the headlines - so you don't have to. She'll discuss everything from the expansion of the universe, the usefulness of beta-blockers, and the debate about AI robot butlers - should they be bipedal?

New Zealand athlete Maia Ramsden is calling home from Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA where she studies at Harvard University.

In a shock move after 31 years in the industry, fashion designer Kate Sylvester is walking away from the eponymous brand.

End of TV news as we know it? TVNZ cuts back and Newshub closes down. Newshub's news boss responds; the minister plays for time; a former minister fights back

A cellist is not the first person that springs to mind when you think: Rebel. But Hauser, the classical world's answer to Cher, is just that.

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen joins us once again as our Sunday Morning question master.

In 2019, under extreme scrutiny for his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and facing allegations about his own conduct, Prince Andrew sat down for the infamous interview with BBC's Newsnight.

British journalist and former Labour party senior advisor Tom Baldwin is the author of a new biography Sir Kier Starmer: The Unexpected Rise.

Chris Conway is a volcanologist based in Tsukuba City. He joins Jim for Calling Home.

RNZ producer, Ayana Piper-Healion, has been reading all the headlines - so you don’t have to.

Lucy Prebble, the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Emmy award-winning writer behind HBO's drama Succession, talks about her play, The Effect.

We talk to an editor keeping an eye on where public money for public services ends up and the government’s new political action plan gets the media’s attention.

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen joins us once again as our Sunday Morning question master.

Nearly 1000 British sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted or convicted of theft, false accounting and fraud, due to a faulty computer system. The story of the scandal is told in the TV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. Alan Bates joins Jim.

Habituation is a neurological process which helps us to adapt to new environments keeping ready to reap any benefits or negate any hazards. Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London and the co-author of Look Again: The power of noticing what was always there. She believes there are benefits to seeing the things we are used to in a fresh light