RNZ: Sunday Morning

A few weeks back we heard from three of the country's youngest politicians, and this week we're speaking to three young people who are no less passionate about bringing about change through political actions but have chosen to do so in quite different ways. Finlay talks to Unite Union regional organiser Heleyni Pratley, who is also a member of Fightback; Jordan Williams, executive director of the Taxpayers' Union; and Paul Young, Solutions and Strategy Researcher for Generation Zero. Produced by Jeremy Rose.

Jacques Brel had a major influence on modern music. His songs have been covered by legends like Leonard Cohen, David Bowie and Nina Simone. Jennifer Ward-Lealand is singing in Brel - an interpretation of Jacques Brel's songbook - at the New Zealand Festival.

Just two countries have a saltire cross on their flags and poet and novelist Kei Miller lives between them. From Jamaica, Kei Miller now teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow, and he'll be in New Zealand next year for the New Zealand Festival.

Jane Patterson returns from Sri Lanka and asks if NZ was right to attend the Commonwealth Heads meeting.

Mediawatch talks to a journalist who's lifted the lid on the loose and lazy use of language in the media. But does it really matter as long as the meaning is clear? And why is the Oxford English Dictionary telling us not to take 'literally' too literally any more? Also: Media moguls putting up paywalls in Australia; and Nelson Mandela himself said he was no saint - but the media took no notice. Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.

Wayne looks at why mass protests are no longer part of our political landscape. Chris follows up with former Auckland University academic, Tony Watkins.

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully talks about the range of this job.

John Banks is, at last, preparing to depart the scene over the anonymous donations issue. The Nationals must be starting to worry about their choices for coalition partners.

In this Ideas hour we look at the pressure on our rivers. The big issue is water quality - the impact of urban wastewater and agricultural runoff on waterways.

Colin Duriez talks about the real CS Lewis and the friendships and events that shaped the man and his writing.

A major publisher's magazine makes foreign stories look local; broadcasters break the news of Mandela's death; The Press angers the Irish with STD claims; new money fuels new news media in Australia and is less crime good news or bad for the media?

Ivan Sutherland was a scholar, cultural anthropologist and social activist who was committed to a bicultural New Zealand.

Patrick O'Meara investigates the pluses and pitfalls of the planned Trans Pacific Partnership.

Adolf Hitler, who assumed power early in 1933, passed a law on December 1 of that year safeguarding the unity of the party and the state. Eighty years on, Wayne Brittenden looks at the internationally unheralded anti-Nazi resistance movement within Germany, and at enduring stereotypes. Chris Laidlaw follows up with German psychotherapist Martin Kaiser.

Barry Coates, Oxfam's New Zealand Executive Director since September 2003 has announced that he will leave the organisation in March next year, then run as a Green Party candidate. Barry talks to Chris about his decade working with Oxfam to tackle global poverty.