Saturday Morning for Saturday 26 December 2015

10:05 AM.Poet, playwright, musician and novelist who was the youngest person to win the Ted Hughes Award, for her epic narrative poem Brand New Ancients; her first full-length poetry collection, Hold Your Own… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.English literature and music graduate whose debut novel, The Chimes, is set in a future Britain where people's memories are controlled by music. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Singer and songwriter who has recorded a series of duet albums with Delaney Davidson, and is touring New Zealand with his band The Yarra Benders in advance of his debut solo album in April. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Distinguished Professor at University of Maryland, fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute, and joint winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Professor of Public Policy at AUT University who spoke at the International Women's Day Celebration Breakfast at Parliament. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based non-profit organisation that has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Professional falconer whose work in raptor research and conservation projects informed the writing of her book, H is for Hawk. She will visit New Zealand in May to speak at the 2015 Auckland Writers… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Dunedin novelist, biographer, playwright, short story writer, and New Zealand Poet Laureate, whose new collection, Being Here: Selected Poems, covers the range of his poetry from 1973 to new work… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Professor of biology at the University of Sussex, founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, and author of A Sting in the Tale, and A Buzz in the Meadow. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Chair of Te Runanga a Iwi o Ngapuhi since 2008, and chair of the Tuhoronuku Independent Mandated Authority, the group mandated by Ngapuhi to settle its Treaty claims, and which is now negotiating… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Ross Ashcroft is a British filmmaker, renegade economist, essayist and strategist. He is the founder of the media company Motherlode, and the online platform Renegade Inc., and his 2011 feature… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Professor Russell Gray, FRSNZ, is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Aside from being a dick pic critic, Maddie Holden writes for a range of websites and has a background in law. She hails from Auckland and moved to London last year after a couple of months in the… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Thomas Burstyn's documentary about a Ruahine family, This Way of Life, made the 2011 documentary long list for the Academy Awards. His new film, Some Kind of Love, is screening at the New Zealand… Read more Video, Audio

10:05 AM.Editorial cartoonist for the National Business Review continuously since 1975, leading authority on hedgehogs and possums, and weekly science columnist to Wellington's Dominion Post. His new book is… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Nigerian-born, UK-based writer and performer of Call Mr Robeson: a Life with Songs, based on the musical career and political activism of the US singer Paul Robeson.

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10:06 AM.Actor for stage and screen, broadcaster, director, designer, producer and musician, who will be speaking about family memoir, Not My Father's Son, at the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Former chef at Sotheby's Laura Greenfield is head chef at Wellington's European soul food eatery Field & Green. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Wellington typeface designer whose Klim Type Foundry sells a range of typefaces internationally. Financier, his new typeface for the Financial Times, won him a Purple Pin for graphic design at this… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:07 AM.Founder and creative director of the Nga Rangatahi Toa Creative Arts Initiative. Audio

8:10 AM.Internationally renowned variety act based in Las Vegas who have been touring globally for the last twenty years, specialising in silent comedy, magic, juggling, slapstick, and acrobatics. Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Professor of Digestive Biomechanics at the College of Health, Massey University, an Associate Investigator at the Riddet Institute, and leader of the Digesta Group, are acknowledged world leaders in… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Professor of Digestive Biomechanics at the College of Health, Massey University, Associate Investigator <http://www.riddet.ac.nz/our-people/professor-roger-lentle> at the Riddet Institute, and… Read more Audio