Sam Johnson
The Panel with Gary McCormick and Sam Johnson (part 1)
Topics - a woman who Kim DotCom met online and invited to New Zealand for a holiday, Sarah Torrent, was quizzed for seven hours at Auckland Airport yesterday after she told officials she would be… Audio
The Panel pre-show for 20 January 2015
Including: the danger of eating a hamburger in a car, couples working together can achieve their fitness goals better (academic research has got simpler over the years). In praise of the bigger… Audio
The Panel with Arini Loader and Sam Johnson (Part 2)
Topics - today is generally the loneliest date, the 11th of the 11th, a lot of ones. So back in the 1990s a group of students at Nanjing University designated the day Singles Day, as a bit of fun… Audio
The Panel with Arini Loader and Sam Johnson (Part 1)
Topics - the incredible saga of prison absconder Phillip Smith, now in Brazil. He left the country with $10,000 in cash. He's been in contact with his lawyer in New Zealand today. He wants to make… Audio
The Panel pre-show for 11 November 2014
Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
The Panel with Sam Johnson and Kevin Milne (Part 2)
Topics - apparently 8 years ago a much-discussed study estimated 304 million lakes on the surface of the land, but a careful count using high-resolution satellite images says 117 million. Newly… Audio
The Panel with Sam Johnson and Kevin Milne (Part 1)
Topics - the Prime Minister isn't ruling out New Zealand troops being deployed to Iraq or Syria to fight ISIS. It's understood a squad of 12 SAS personnel have been in "pre-deployment mode" for a… Audio
The Panel with Chris Trotter and Sam Johnson (Part 2)
Topics - at the Harvard Medical School it has been discovered why you tend to stay awake at night when you're older. You lose the switch in your brain that enables you to nod off. James Foley, the… Audio
The Panel with Chris Trotter and Sam Johnson (Part 1)
Topics - a Porirua lawyer who's had 15 speeding tickets in 20 years - but has managed to have half of them thrown out of court - has again had a legal victory, this time over a $35 speed camera… Audio
The Panel with Sam Johnson and Catherine Robertson (Part 2)
Topics - Alone; one of the words we hate the most, apparently. This is the finding today in the big journal Science, from American varsity researchers. The discharge without conviction for the… Audio
The Panel with Sam Johnson and Catherine Robertson
Topics - Labour leader David Cunliffe has apologised at a Women's Refuge symposium for being a man and pledged to invest an extra $60 million into family violence services. Labour's going to announce… Audio
The Panel with Finlay MacDonald and Sam Johnson (Part 2)
The BBC is likely to play 'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead' on the radio this weekend; controversy over smoking scenes in The Hobbit; and cheap new tablet computers. Audio
The Panel with Finlay MacDonald and Sam Johnson (Part 1)
An anonymous blogger claims to have available for download a copy of a leaked EQC spreadsheet with details of 65,000 claims; and the Kiwiblog website is accusing the teachers' union of bullying… Audio
The Panel with Sam Johnson and Scott Yorke (Part 2)
Topics - will new online news sources replace the sunday papers. One place we don't seem to be going for media is TVNZ at 7pm. YahooXtra customers say spam keeps arriving in inboxes even though… Audio
The Panel with Sam Johnson and Scott Yorke (Part 1)
Topics - workers need to be paid between $18-$20 an hour to earn a living wage. That's the figure expected to be announced on Thursday when researchers at the Anglican Church's Family Centre in Lower… Audio
The Panel with Sam Johnson and Gordon Brown (Part 2)
Topics - 5.8 million people in Britain admit to being superstitious. An article in the Sunday Star Times suggests that changes to the Education Act could lead to "double-bunked" "mega schools". Audio
The Panel with Sam Johnson and Gordon Brown (Part 1)
Topics - The Prime Minister has confirmed that New Zealand taxpayers are paying for the Duchess of Cornwall's hairdresser while she is visiting the country. Is there a fundamental problem with our… Audio
The Panel Pre-Show for 12 November 2012
Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
The Panel with Steve McCabe and Sam Johnson (Part 2)
This week's edition of The Complaints Choir, the reality TV show in which you can "win a baby", the viral video of a southern bloke rolling his ute on a public road, and protests against the… Audio
The Panel with Steve McCabe and Sam Johnson (Part 1)
The Rena sentencing, an economist says the government's 'austerity lite' budget won't stimulate economic growth, and health experts welcome the price increase on cigarettes. Audio