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Saturday Morning
7am - MiddayPresented by Susie Ferguson and Mihingarangi Forbes. In-depth feature interviews, current affairs and news across a broad range of topics on RNZ National and online.
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Māpuna
12.10pm – 1pm
Featured stories
The best music of 2025
How to choose favourites from the millions of songs, albums and musical experiences of the past year? RNZ's music experts do their best to narrow it down.
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David Bowie: The Odyssey of a Changeling
This music-rich, six-part audio series offers an overview of the many roles or manifestations of David Bowie's personality, as conveyed through the instant medium of rock & roll. Perfect summer listening, whatever the weather! Audio
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Celebrate Christmas with the Auckland Philharmonia
18 Dec 2025The Graduate Choir New Zealand and the Auckland Philharmonia perform a concert of beloved seasonal music including Ave Maria, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Christmas Lullaby and more in Auckland's Holy Trinity Cathedral.
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Mana Moana - Songs of the Pacific
15 Dec 2025LISTEN: Signature Choir and the NZSO perform songs from Tonga, Samoa, Niue, Tokelau, Fiji and the Cook Islands - popular songs of love, of faith, of Pasifika pride, songs that will bring a tear to your eyes, and make you want to move. Audio
Programmes
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Sunday Morning
News, discussion, features and ideas until midday.
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Worlds of Music
Music from the world, for the world, hosted by Trevor Reekie.
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Our Changing World
Stories about science and nature from out in the field and inside the labs across Aotearoa New Zealand.
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The Backyard Bee Team
From the This Way Up Suburban Home Food Production Initiative (TWUSHFPI for short).
Presenters
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Jim Mora
Station: National
Programme: Sunday Morning
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Perlina Lau
Station: National
Programme: Culture 101
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Wallace Chapman
Station: National
Programme: The Panel
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Maggie Tweedie
Station: National
Programme: Music 101 Pocket Edition
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Nicola Wright
Station: National
Programme: News
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Vicki McKay
Station: National
Programme: All Night Programme
Today’s Schedule
12:00 AM. All Night Programme
A selection of the best RNZ National interviews and features.
6:00 AM. Country Life
Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)
12:10 PM. Māpuna with Julian Wilcox
Julian talks to Māori throughout Aotearoa, from sports legends to business leaders, to artists and community advocates.
1:06 PM. Music 101
The best songs, music-related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from New Zealand and the world
5:00 PM. The World at Five
A roundup of today's news and sport (RNZ)
5:10 PM. Focus on Politics
5:30 PM. Tagata O Te Moana
A weekly Pacific magazine programme features New Zealand and regional Pacific news, issues, information and music.
6:06 PM. Nashville Babylon
Mark Rogers offers the very best in Americana, alt country, folk, soul and blues music (RNZ)
7:06 PM. Saturday Night with Phil O'Brien
An evening of requests, nostalgia and musical memories (RNZ)