Sunday Morning for Sunday 23 October 2022

 

8:10 Who’s next in number 10?

We cross live to London for the latest on the contest to be UK Prime Minister

8:24 Max Hastings: Today’s lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis

60 years ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis was deepening.  Following the discovery of Soviet nuclear warheads in Cuba there was a 13-day stand-off, and the world was bracing itself for war between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Going against advice from his generals, US President Jack Kennedy did a secret deal with Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev. American nuclear weapons were removed from Turkey and in exchange Russian missiles left Cuba.

The historian Sir Max Hastings says the Cuban Missile Crisis has frightening lessons for the world now. In his book Abyss, he draws on everything that was said in the White House at the time, and on extensive material as well from Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots, and a whole host of accounts from the people in the middle of that very tense fortnight.  

9:05 Mediawatch

Mediawatch looks at coverage of the Communist Party in China cementing its rule - while the Conservative Party was losing its grip in the UK. 

Also:  how claims of cancel culture were fired up by funding for a secondary schools Shakespeare festival; and bad language leaking out on air.

9:37 Peter McGlashan: T20 World Cup Update

Auckland Councillor and former international cricketer Peter McGlashan talks us through Saturday’s action between New Zealand and Australia at the T20 World Cup.

9:45 Cherneka Johnson: First wahine Maori to retain world boxing title

Boxer Cherneka Johnson has experienced both triumph and tragedy in the last few weeks.

Neekz, or Sugar as she’s usually known lives and trains in Australia. She's Ngāti Ranginui, and earlier this year she became the second Maori woman to win a world boxing title, and earlier this month the first to retain one.

But last month, during her buildup to the fight, Sugar's younger brother Levi was assaulted and killed outside a Brisbane gym. So she had to dig deep this past week to hold onto her IBF World Junior Featherweight/Super Bantamweight title.

Her clash with former champion Suzie Ramadan was gruelling, and bloody, and for that reason alone it made headlines around the world because Sugar fought on drenched in blood when the fight could easily, seemingly, have been stopped.

10:06 Shelly Ferguson: Interior design secrets for a luxury look

Shelley Ferguson is well-known now to most New Zealanders, a former editor of a number of our lifestyle magazines, now a judge on the TV show The Block, and a prominent interior designer.

Shelley’s book LIVE LUXE - Insider Secrets to Fabulous Home Renovations is a guide to the elements and principles of design.

10:47 Professor Marc Wilson: Mind matters

Psychologist Professor Marc Wilson takes on some of the latest self-help topics and advice including new research that shines light onto what makes us better-operating humans.

11:05 Calling Home: Anna Bibby in Gironde, France

Anna Bibby is living that life that many of us fantasise about living, in France.

She's been in a charming old village surrounded by walnut groves; then it was a charming old village surrounded by grape vines.

Anna Bibby is calling home this morning from the Gironde region of France, in the south-west, on the Bay of Biscay, near the city of Bordeaux, surrounded by a countryside dotted with vineyards and old chateaux.

Anna was born in Wellington then later owned a well-known gallery in Auckland's Herne Bay, and then, in her fifties, 12 years ago, she just moved to France.

“If you want a final adventure, jump now”

It's been a considerable adventure. Anna Bibby has written a book, it's called Learning to be French (and failing).

11:36 Dr Ali Hill: The nutrition edition

Dr Ali Hill from the Human Nutrition department of Otago University is back once again. On her nutrition agenda this Sunday morning, the role of Vitamin C with Covid, staying hydrated, salt cravings and the perfect food.

11:42 John Campbell: My journey to the history of us

Journalist John Campbell’s latest podcast premieres on Labour Day on TVNZ.

From Egmont to Taranaki. “is a personal story of Pakeha me. Who didn't know what I didn't know, until I began discovering it.”