{"podcast":{"title":"Midday Report","slug":"midday-report-5671629","podcast_index_feed_id":5671629,"rss_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/acast/middayreport.rss","website_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/middayreport","image_url":"https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--WY2QAzBe--/c_fill,f_jpg,h_2000,q_50,w_2000/v1769126984/4JUD1M0_midday_report_external_cover_jan_2026_png.jpg?_a=BACCd2AD","author":"RNZ","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Midday Report - Te Pūrongo o te Poutūtanga. RNZ National's midday current affairs programme, hosted by Guyon Espiner.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T00:20:24.947964+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/midday-report-5671629"},"episode":{"title":"Why give over $1m to political parties? Two big donors explain","slug":"why-give-over-1m-to-political-parties-two-big-donors-explain","published_at":"2026-09-15T00:08:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/midday-report-5671629/why-give-over-1m-to-political-parties-two-big-donors-explain","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/midday-report-5671629","url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/middayreport/audio/2019051961/why-give-over-1m-to-political-parties-two-big-donors-explain","audio_url":"https://flex.acast.com/podcast.radionz.co.nz/mdr/mdr-20260915-1208-why_give_over_1m_to_political_parties_two_big_donors_explain-128.mp3","summary":"There's now just over 50 days until election day and large donations of $20,000 or more to political parties have almost surpassed the total from 2023. RNZ's Farah Hancock has been asking these big donors for interviews to find out why they do it.","meta_description":"There's now just over 50 days until election day and large donations of $20,000 or more to political parties have almost surpassed the total from 2023. RN…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":289,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/midday-report-5671629/episodes/why-give-over-1m-to-political-parties-two-big-donors-explain/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/midday-report-5671629/why-give-over-1m-to-political-parties-two-big-donors-explain.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}