RNZ: Sunday Morning

As a dispute continues over Sri Lanka hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in November, Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand talks to Chris about allegations of human rights abuses and his Government's bid to reconcile the population after the civil war four years ago, in which thousands of citizens were killed.

Should publishers get public cash because our our broadcasters do?; a major magazine pushes back at The Press Council; Members of Parliament make news acting up under the influence - what about members of the media?

The personal life of Captain James Cook is not well known. This is partly due to his equally enigmatic wife Elizabeth, who destroyed all his letters towards the end of her long life. Finding this out prompted Auckland novelist Graeme Lay to fill in the gaps himself, and recreate in a novel the story of a relationship that spanned almost 20 years and thousands of sea miles. The Secret Life of James Cook, by Graeme Lay, is published by HarperCollins.

Why are the number of women in the NZ police still so low? Craig McCulloch investigates.

On Counterpoint this week more on the ideological boundaries between mainstream political parties.

Teresa Doherty is a judge from Northern Ireland, who was appointed a judge on the international war crimes tribunal for Sierra Leone, after that horrific civil war had ended in 2003.

An inebriated low-ranked National List MP makes a fool of himself and trouble for John Key by throwing his inconsiderable weight around in a restaurant and threatening the waiter.

Today Ideas looks at the case for a state-funded school lunch and breakfast programme.

Tatiana Lacerdes Prazeres, Brazil's Secretary for Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade has been appointed the new Director General of the World Trade Organisation.

The media feeding frenzy on Aaron Gilmore trumps important issues; a veteran's view of print media prospects; media freedom in the age of the internet and social media; a startling story from the sporting sidelines.

Pankaj Mishra is the author of a very unusual book about the way that Asian societies have dealt, psychologically and politically, with European colonialism.

Health Correspondent Karen Brown looks into the rising rates of diabetes

The film industry celebrates a number of centenaries this year. The name 'Hollywood' was formally adopted a hundred years ago. The Danish film 'Atlantis' was one of the first-ever feature movies, filmed off the coast of New Zealand. And Edison's ground-breaking projector was also born in 1913. Wayne looks at the extraordinary world of projectionists, and Chris follows up with two projection box veterans.

Gerald Hensley has written a book telling the insider story of the collapse of the ANZUS military alliance. Gerald, who was involved in events at the time, has since interviewed key protagonists, who have spoken to him frankly about what was going on behind the scenes - what Bob Hawke and George Schultz really thought of David Lange; the internal machinations within the Labour Party; and the cultural loyalties, strategic objectives, and personal relationships that led to the collapse.

The Nationals are being accused of cronyism with their appointment of certain people from other fields to high level public service positions - squash champion Susan Devoy is now the Race Relations Commissioner.