1Insight looks at the Auckland City Council�s push for a commuter rail tunnel�that it says will make the city truly international. The council is divided over the plan to build under downtown Auckland, and so also is the government. This is being touted as essential for growth. But the arguments against it are all about the economic benefits and how this is measured.
1Hone Kouka � George Nepia. Internationally acclaimed Maori playwright Hone Kouka�s new work, �I, George Nepia� tells the life story of the legendary All Black fullback. Born in Hawke�s Bay, Nepia was part of the victorious All Black team known as The Invincibles which toured the UK in 1924. Hone talks to Chris about Nepia�s story.
1Mediawatch, and will there be anything in the news other than the Rugby World Cup? The commentary over the Opening Ceremony, and the troubles on the trains is all there is so far.
2How two veteran journalists revived past controversies this week: First Tom Scott's film on the 1981 Springbok tour which aired last week as the South African team arrived for the Rugby World Cup�.
3The Erebus disaster, and Paul Holmes on the exoneration of Captain Jim Collins (and a new book). This is a campaign for justice, but with also the hand over of editorial control of the story to Paul Holmes.
4Also � the response to a book which says the military spun the media on NZ�s role in the War on Terror; Paul Holmes review on Nicky Hager's book Other People's Wars, dismissing it and it's claims. The attempts to discredit the book, especially for those who had not read it. The lack of objectivity, and knowledge around the reporting of this story
5Mediawatch talks to a New Zealand journalist , Dan Wooton, who was high up at the British newspaper at the heart of the phone-hacking scandal. Did he see hacks hacking phones at the News of The World?�
6And is the media better off now without that toxic tabloid?
1Simon Reid-Henry says Norway�s calm response to extremism is an example the rest of the world would do well to follow. He talks to Chris about right-wing extremists gaining ground in European main-stream politics, and the environment in which Anders Breivik found support for his ideas.
2Professor Richard Jackson is an expert in the relatively new discipline of Critical Terrorism Studies which seeks to understand what drives people to take terrorist action � and with this understanding, aims to prevent it. Richard Jackson is giving a keynote address at an International Conference on Terrorism at the University of Glasgow, on 9/11 � 10 years after. �In February he takes up the role of deputy director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, at the University of Otago.
3Terrorism. Journalist Andrea Kannapell recalls the events of 10 years ago during the 9/11 attacks on the US. She remembers cycling towards the World Trade Centre as smoke poured from the building; and she tells Chris about the mood in New York a decade later.
1Jorge Sandoval recalls the events of September 11, 1973 which saw him arrested, tortured and locked up in a Chilean concentration camp. Warwick Murray talks about the legacy of General Augusto Pinochet, and the current student protests, dubbed the Chilean Winter, which are sweeping the country.