RNZ: Sunday Morning

Fiona Farrell has been awarded the $100,000 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer's Fellowship to research and write twin books, one fiction and one non-fiction, inspired by her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes and the rebuilding of the city.

With EQC funds depleted after the quakes in Canterbury, Eric Frykberg asks if NZ can afford another big quake.

This week Wayne looks at some of the issues that have sparked off the unrest in Turkey, and Chris follows up with Amnesty International's researcher on Turkey, Andrew Gardner.

A new website which takes visitors to the location of almost 750 marae throughout the country has just been launched. It was the brainchild of Otago University Professor Paora Tapsell and broadcaster Rereata Makiha. www.maorimaps.com

The gloves are off in the long run up to the next election. The name calling has started. Maybe it's time The Greens lost their 'nice' image, join the fray and engage in a bit of biffo?

Ideas explores the arguments for and against euthanasia with: Dr Rodney Syme, the author of A Good Death: An Argument for Voluntary Euthanasia; Dr Sinead Donnelly a palliative care specialist who says euthanasia "puts the soul of medicine on trial"; and Carole Sweney, the president of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society of New Zealand. Produced by Jeremy Rose.

Timothy Prestero is the founder and CEO of Design that Matters, a non-profit company that designs products for the poor in developing countries. He was in New Zealand recently as a guest of Callaghan Innovation to speak at Technology Innovation Week.

Will the recent row over racism sparked by two newspaper cartoons have a lasting impact on the artists and their editors?; slip-ups in a major international story; TV cooking contests are intruding on TV news; how one of many claiming to be Jesus had has plenty of TV exposure lately.

Sylvia Nasar is the author of A Beautiful Mind which inspired the academy award-winning movie and was translated into 30 languages.

Treaty Settlements are about half way through and Te Manu Korihi Chief Reporter Gareth Thomas considers if there are winners and losers.

Recently a French consumer magazine tested 47 popular brands of bottled water and found that 10 of them contained residues from drugs or pesticides. This raises questions about supposedly healthier bottled water and also why many seem to constantly need it. Wayne looks at the issue, and Chris follows up with American science and nature writer Elizabeth Royte.

Ambassador Christopher Hill is the Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at The University of Denver and former US career diplomat. He talks to Chris about the niceties of negotiating with North Korea, NZ's anti-nuclear stance, and getting along with China.

Two executives, one from Fonterra and one from Sanitarium, meet at a low decile school as the milk and Weetbix arrive for 'the kiddies'.

In the latest of our occasional series where we focus on a country and its people we take a look at Myanmar. Chris Laidlaw speaks to Victoria University lecturer in international relations David Capie; and Jeremy Rose talks to Phil Robertson a co-author of the Human Rights Watch report All You Can Do Is Pray which implicated Burmese authorities in crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing, and Maung Zarni a long-time democracy activist and a research fellow of the London School of Economics.

Kate Mosse is author of bestsellers, Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel, (published by Hachette) as well as Co-Founder and Chair of the Board for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 (previously the Orange Prize). She talks to Chris about inspiration, history, intrepid women, and the power of the zeitgeist.