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Playing Favourites with Kim Hill
After 21 years, Kim Hill has hosted Saturday Morning for the final time. In the final hour of the show, the beloved broadcaster chats to long-time colleague Bryan Crump about some of her favourite… Video, Audio, Gallery
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"There is nobody who fails to be interesting"
26 Nov 2023On Saturday, Kim Hill brought the curtain down on a 38-year career at RNZ. After making her name as an unparalleled interviewer, she switched places and let Sunday Morning's Jim Mora ask her… Video, Audio
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David Brooks: how to know another person
29 Nov 2023Sociologist David Brooks used to think wisdom was the ability to utter life-changing maxims like Dumbledore or Yoda. Now he believes it's about deeply seeing someone else's experience. "I think wisdom… Video, Audio
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Gilbert Enoka: Mental skills for sport and life
3 Dec 2023All Blacks Mental Skills Coach Gilbert Enoka, is moving on to on new pastures. Audio
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Luxon on coalition's 100-day plan
4 Dec 2023The National-ACT-New Zealand First coalition is in, and a number of things are out.
The government revealed its 100-day plan last week with 49 items to tick off - most of which will cancel or… Audio
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Gone in a puff of smoke
Anti-smoking researchers are promising a healthy fight against the new government's moves to repeal world-first legislation on tobacco sales. Audio
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Ashleigh Hoeta breaks world record bench press 317.5kg
30 Nov 2023If I need to pick up anything heavier than the remote I probably need to call some friends to help with the lifting. Our next guest has no such problems, she broke the WORLD RECORD for female bench… Audio
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Andy Mitchell: an insider's guide to psychedelics
2 Dec 2023British clinical neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell was curious about the renewed attention psychedelics were getting in his field, so set out to do some first-person research. He took ten different… Audio
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Political panel
1 Dec 2023What a week it has been for our newly sworn-in coalition government.
This week to discuss the action we're joined by RNZ political reporter Katie Scotcher, Newhub's Political Editor Jenna Lynch, and… Audio
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Linda Bryder: the best country to give birth?
2 Dec 2023In The Best Country to Give Birth? medical historian Linda Bryder explores how New Zealand came to develop its unique approach to the role of midwives in childbirth. The 1990 Nurses Amendment Act… Audio
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Labour leader Chris Hipkins on Andrew Shaw's comments
29 Nov 2023New Zealand On Air board member, Andrew Shaw, resigned on Tuesday after criticising the Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters.
On social media, Shaw described Peters as malicious and untruthful.
He… Audio
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Monitoring the Makarora mohua
30 Nov 2023Mohua are bright yellow forest birds – but despite their eye-catching plumage, they can be tricky to spot flitting high in the forest canopy. Claire Concannon visits the Makarora mohua population… Audio
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Tim Minchin: Seriously funny
25 Nov 2023Australian musical comedian Tim Minchin is a swiss army knife of entertainment. He can be political, silly, and tear-inducing - all within the course of a song. As a composer he's written super-catchy… Audio
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Richard Jackson: Does NZ really need its defence force?
2 Dec 2023As wars continue in Gaza and Ukraine, and other parts of the world, a new book questions whether New Zealand ought to have a military force at all. Professor Richard Jackson, Griffin Leonard and… Audio
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Political commentators Gareth Hughes and Brigitte Morten
4 Dec 2023Political commentators Brigitte Morten and Gareth Hughes chew over the first week of a new Cabinet, and what more is being learned about policies which will be undone. Gareth Hughes is a former Green… Audio
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Mediawatch for 3 December 2023
3 Dec 2023Claims of media 'bribery' derail new government on day one; politics shows off air just as politics hots up; mayor under pressure after rumour-based reports. Audio
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New govt repealing of laws embarassing to NZers - Sepuloni
30 Nov 2023The coalition govt has unveiled its 100-day plan. It has 49 actions that Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says will deliver more in 100 days than the Labour government did in six months. Joining… Audio
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Eight new hats for Judith Collins
Spies, space and science form just part of the new domain for battle-hardened politician Judith Collins. Audio
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A new theory in the JFK Assassination, Mary Haverstick's book
27 Nov 202360 years on from the assassination of US President John F Kennedy, and there are still so many questions about that shocking day. Mary Haverstick never set out to look at the killing, but came across… Audio
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Is your partner emotionally immature?
29 Nov 2023Being in a relationship with an emotionally immature person can be a nightmare says Wellington psychologist Karen Nimmo. But how do you tell if they're the problem - or you are? And is it worth trying… Audio
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Chris Bishop on Government's 100-day plan
30 Nov 2023The new government has unveiled what policy it wants to push through in its first three months in office, including moving into urgency to debate five bills before Christmas.
Prime Minister… Audio
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Sebastian Faulks: On being Homo sapiens
3 Dec 2023Sebastian Faulks, worldwide bestselling author of Birdsong, is back with a new thriller, inspired, he tells us by a tweet from Richard Dawkins. Audio
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Building a wetland on farm
A wetland at the bottom of a dairy farm in South Wairarapa is reducing most of the nitrates being drained from the paddocks. The project at Kaiwaiwai Dairies is nearly a decade old and one of the… Audio
