Sunday Morning for Sunday 21 August 2022

8:10 Is there a recession looming? 

There was interesting and much-discussed opinion from Westpac this past week about how the New Zealand economy won't enter a recession. Longer-term expectations of inflation will "stay under control", that was the phrase used.

Consumer Price Index inflation will fall slowly but steadily, the annual rate for this year will be 5.1 per cent, 3.2 per cent next year, 2.6 in 2024.

The ANZ sees a recession as still being a risk, and it reckons inflation this year will settle at 6.1% or so for this calendar year. 

Jim talks to Jeffrey Halley about the latest economic data. 

8:20 Upcoming boxing contest between a Ukranian resistance fighter and Anthony Joshua

An intriguing boxing contest is on this morning in Saudi Arabia, the rematch between the UK's Anthony Joshua, the former all-conquering world heavyweight champion, and the man who beat him - Oleksandr Usyk from Ukraine, heavyweight champion of three belts.

Kevin Barry, Olympic boxing silver medallist, and the man who's trained David Tua and Joseph Parker talks to Jim about this fight and the pre-match antics at a media conference. 

8.35 Calling Home with Don McGlashan 

Calling Home this morning, a very familiar name, and voice. This is an appropriate song of his to play in advance of that, about someone moving house and making a discovery in the bathroom cupboard.

Don McGlashan, one of our favourite musicians, former front man for the Muttonbirds and Blam Blam Blam, and once one half of the duo Front Lawn with Harry Sinclair.  He's calling home from Canada where he lives with his wife Canadian, Ann Macdonell, Director of Library Advancement at Simon Fraser University. 

9:06 Mediawatch

This week Mediawatch looks at two investigations into the impact of misinformation - and how the media have responded.

Also - how fears of fringe candidates filling a void in politics made headlines - and two invitations to put the PM on air fell on deaf ears.

9:37 Andrea Sheardown refuses to give up after being given a short time to live 

Andrea Sheardown found a new way of living after being told she hardly any time left. She had an advanced case of a still rare but increasingly common now form of cancer, it's a dreaded diagnosis - cholangio carcinoma, bile duct cancer.

She's about to cycle 1000 kilometres across Thailand in 8 days. She talks to Jim about her next challenge and what happened 7 years ago when she was told she only had six weeks to live. 

10.35 Anne Perrottet on raising 13 children 

Australian Anne Perrottet  is a counsellor with a number of degrees to her name, based these days in the U.S. Her husband John worked for the World Bank, he's a financial consultant. Her son Dominic is the premier of NSW.

She's written a book about motherhood called Thriving and Surviving Raising 13. She talks to Jim about her world of raising 8 boys and 5 girls in the US and Australia and the challenges that came along the way.  

11:05 Auckland Writers Festival Director Anne O'Brien 

The annual Auckland Writers Festival is upon us, Waituhi o Tamaki, one of the best-attended festivals in the world, and on Festival Director Anne O'Brien's watch numbers have increased in a decade from 25,000 each year to more than 80,000.

The Aotea Centre each year year is heaving, to use an adjective not in many of the books being discussed.  

Anne talks to Jim about the success of the Auckland event.