RNZ: Sunday Morning

With Roastbusters fallout continuing questions are being asked about the way the Police deal with rape complainants.

Dr Dannenburg talks to Chris about building healthy cities, and how the design of our built environment can be good for human health and save the planet. Dr Andrew Dannenburg is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was a guest of the NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities.

Two broadcasters are off the air over their response to the 'Roastbusters' story. Does this also reveal a real threat to media freedom? Mediawatch asks a top editor, an advertisers' advocate and a former talk radio manager who's handled on-air outrages in the past.

Fenella Colyer this week won the Prime Minister's Science Teacher Prize, worth $150,000, for her success teaching physics at Manurewa High School - a particularly welcome achievement for Fenella, who wasn't allowed to take physics when she was a secondary student. She talks to Chris about the particular challenges and joy of making physics relevant and accessible to students in a multicultural decile 2 school.

Megan Whelan explores whether young people are getting the education about sexuality they need.

The Mediawatch team runs through recent queries and comment from listeners on... the fallout from reporting the Super City mayor's affair; sleazy offers of smutty stardom; content partnerships and freebie-driven travel writing; Maori TV rocking the waka; Ko turns pro; inappropriate headlines and incongruous ads.

This months marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Wayne looks at the enduring myths surrounding the former Commander and Chief and his brief time in what some referred to as Camelot. US historian Lawrence Wittner joins the discussion.

Professor of history at Oxford University on the Robert Fitzroy, formerly Captain of the HMS Beagle and Governor of New Zealand.

The Black Caps suffered what can only be described as a humiliating defeat in the recent series against Bangladesh. What's the problem? Or is it true that we just aren't very good at cricket and need to admit it?

The notion of leadership and its effects on our social climate, and specifically an the elite level in our national sport. Guests include former All Black captains Sir Brian Lochore and Graham Mourie, former Black Ferns captain Dr Farah Palmer, and player turned commentator Ken Laban.

Local hero, Terry McCashin, accomplished amateur era rugby player and All Black, and vanguard boutique brewer.

A TV news scoop sparks anguished debate about the culture of teenagers, Police and talk radio; TV3's news chief on the channel's changing current affairs; more major magazines set to change hands; yet another shopping channel hits the screen.

New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, former UK Labour Party MP and former University of Waikato vice-chancellor, on his book Myths, Politicians & Money: The Truth Behind the Free Market.

Brent Edwards explores the motives for NZ's UN Security Council bid.

Online and on-demand, but not on the radio - RNZ's new bid to hook the young; a sports star on social media bypasses the news media with big news; a fuller picture of the Afghan incident.