Sunday Morning for Sunday 1 October 2023

8:10 Mark Reason: All Blacks win, cause for celebration? 

The All Blacks thumped Italy in the RWC, a cause for celebration. Is there also a cause for caution?

Sports writer Mark Reason joins Jim, Mark's a senior sports writer for Stuff and Mark's covered every Rugby World Cup since 1991 for major media, as well as Olympic Games and many big golf tournaments.

8:20 Emily Guy Birken: How to buy happiness 

How we shop has a greater effect on our happiness than what we buy.  

Emily Guy Birken is an award-winning writer, author, money coach, and retirement expert.  

She tells us how to get more bliss for our buck. 

8:40 David Linklater: Is your car spying on you? 

Whilst spying seems like a strong word, that's the accusation made in a study by the Mozilla Foundation. 

David Linklater is the Deputy editor of DRIVEN CARGUIDE at NZME. He joins us with the details. 

9:10 Mediawatch 

Mediawatch looks at how the media are zeroing in on the undecided who could decide the election outcome - and what the media are doing to engage younger people during the campaign.  

Also - a surprising new service from talk radio offering news and opinion for paying customers. 

9:30 Calling Home: Simon Butchard in Warsaw 

Calling home this week is Simon Butchard, who grew up in Christchurch but now lives in Warsaw with his wife Ania and their twins. 

10:10 Dr Lucy Foulkes: Why ‘therapy speak’ might be making us feel worse 

Many of us grew up in a time when mental health just wasn’t discussed. These days though mental wellness is being promoted in many aspects of daily life and the language of psychiatry has entered the vernacular. 

Dr Lucy Foulkes is a psychologist who researches mental health and social development in adolescence. She's a research fellow at both Oxford University and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families in the UK and a lecturer at University College London. In a recent article in New Scientist, she questions if things have necessarily changed for the better. 

10:40 Dr Alex Burgoyne: there's something about mindfulness

In the past few years we've heard a lot about mindfulness, the value of being present, and noticing all the little things you can see and hear and feel and smell. It it does seem that mindfulness has definite value, for anxiety and stress and blood pressure, it's just a question of how much value, depending on who you hear from. 

There's something else about mindfulness says Dr Alex Burgoyne, a cognitive neuroscientist with the Attention & Working Memory Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

11:05 Maya Mathur: BMI and the gap between belief and reality 

The limitations of BMI as a weight and health assessment have been well documented: some All Blacks would be considered in dangerous territory because of high BMI. 

Joining us is Stanford University's Dr Maya Mathur, a medical statistician, and an Assistant Professor at Stanford's Quantitative Sciences Unit, within its Biomedical Informatics Research Division.  

Her most recent research crunched the numbers around weight, BMI and health and found some surprising data. 

11:20 Dr Lisa Sanders: Your questions on Long-COVID answered 

After her chat on the show a couple of weeks ago, Dr Lisa Sanders from Yale University’s Long-COVID clinic joins us once again to answer some of your questions. 

11:40 Michael Vlismas: behind Elon Musk's quarter-trillon fortune

Quite a few books have been written about the mercurial Elon Musk, whose net worth has been estimated now by Forbes magazine at a quarter of a trillion dollars. In recent times Musk's laidback, funky persona has been replaced to an extent by more conservative political views, allegations of misogyny on Twitter, X, and his recent support of comedian Russell Brand.  

Michael Vlismas' Risking It All sets out to say how Musk's childhood shaped him, and the other themes are perseverance, strategising skills and a remarkable ability to handle pressure.