All episodes
Saturday, 21 December 2019
- 8:12 Ian Urbina - Human stories of crime on the high seas
- 9:08 Oliver Gee: Rebuilding Notre Dame
- 9:20 Peter Pomerantsev: 'when information is a weapon, everyone is at war'
- 10:05 Amanda Lund: The Complete Woman's guide Christmas
- 10:20 Josh Whale: putting electric motorbikes onto Rwanda's roads
- 10:40 Eva Orner: exposing abuse at the heart of Bikram yoga
- 11:05 Adelaide bushfires
- 11:17 Tabby Besley: Advocate for LGBTQIA+ students
- 11:38 Sámi on screen - from cultural appropriation to consultation
Saturday, 14 December 2019
- 8:12 Jonathan Freedland on the UK election results
- 8:30 Professor Richard G. Whitman - Brexit and the UK Election
- 8:45 Jessica Hobbs: Award-winning NZ director of The Crown
- 9:05 Sir Peter Snell dies
- 9:10 Barry Magee on Sir Peter Snell
- 9:15 Brittany Kaiser: Ex-Cambridge Analytica employee talks back
- 10:05 Douglas Murray: The groupthink tyranny of woke
- 11:05 Faustin Linyekula: Congolese choreographer and dancer
- 11:30 Peter Butler: Building a predator-free sanctuary
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 14 December 2019
Saturday, 7 December 2019
- 8:10 Farah Nayeri-Gauguin's problematic legacy
- 8:30 Irish actor Barry McGovern - Bringing Beckett's "Watt" to NZ
- 9:07 The Pride and Passion of Rugby Coach Warren Gatland
- 9:40 Jane Morris- climber & head of Mountain Guides' Association
- 10:08 Dame Sue Black on life, death and forensics
- 11:07 Caroline Vercoe on Gauguin
- 11:30 Artist Wayne Youle - 20/20 words of wisdom
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 7 December 2019
Saturday, 30 November 2019
- 8:12 London Bridge Incident
- 8:20 Paul Conroy- war photographer's life in the combat zone
- 8:32 Cracking the anxiety code: the extraordinary Claire Weekes
- 9:05 Jonathan Safran Foer - can you eat your way to saving the planet?
- 9:37 Chris McCabe and Vaughan Rapatahana- preserving poetry in endangered languages
- 10:05 Timothy Spall- playing a(nother) famous English artist in Mrs Lowry and Son
- 10:40 Michael Ross- respected discrimination researcher
- 11:05 Naomi Oreskes- can we trust scientists?
- 11:40 Clive James in conversation
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 30 November 2019
Saturday, 23 November 2019
- 8:12 Carl Elliott on the importance on whistle blowing
- 9:05 How Jenji Kohan runs a TV show
- 9:40 Bougainville independence referendum
- 10:05 All-woman West End hit Emilia gets NZ international premiere
- 10:35 Protest: Tautohetohe
- 11:05 Wendy S. Walters writes back
- 11:35 Doug Wilson : the science of ageing
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 23 November 2019
Saturday, 16 November 2019
- 8:12 Why has Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned and fled?
- 8:25 The true story of fake New York heiress Anna Delvey
- 9:05 Astronaut Alexander Gerst
- 10:05 Justin Paton - McCahon Country
- 10:35 Mounted archer Denise Clifton
- 11:05 Journalist Jodi Kantor on breaking the Harvey Weinstein story
- 11:35 Urban designer Skye Duncan
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 16 November 2019
Saturday, 9 November 2019
- 8:10 Could an experimental drug reverse Parkinson's?
- 8:40 British American Tobacco faces child labour test case
- 9:07 Flea: a Red Hot Chili Pepper remembers his wild childhood
- 9:43 Shakti NZ founder Farida Sultana on arranged marriage
- 10:08 Are plastics a threat to human health?
- 10:43 A dark sky reserve for Wairarapa?
- 11:07 Alice Cooper: Godfather of shock rock
- 11:30 Mapping Aotearoa New Zealand
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 9 November 2019
Saturday, 2 November 2019
- 8:10 Predictions of sea level rise severely understated
- 8:35 Granddaughter of Erebus victim on her quest for the truth
- 9:07 Director Hamish Bennett celebrates country values in new film Bellbird
- 9:30 Cave Diver Jill Heinerth
- 10:06 William Dalrymple- the anarchic rise of the East India Company
- 11:05 Tom Forrest - How to grow a Cannabis industry
- 11:40 Celebrating French NZ artist Louise Henderson
- 11:59 Listener feedback for 2 November 2019
Saturday, 26 October 2019
- 8:10 Thomas Novotny - The case for banning cigarette filters
- 8:26 Lady Anne Glenconner: 'I've got a hell of a lot of very good stories'
- 9:05 Treating chronic depression using magnetic stimulation
- 9:40 Deborah Manning - Fighting food waste
- 10:07 The Slap author's foray into historical fiction
- 10:37 Julie Morrison: how dogs can help court witnesses
- 11:08 Taking Fly My Pretties off the stage and into the studio
- 11:45 Kate's Klassics - Valley of The Dolls
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 26 October 2019
Saturday, 19 October 2019
- 8:10 Alastair Campbell: Brexit latest
- 8:35 Eliud Kipchoge and the sub two hour marathon
- 9:05 Billy Connolly: 'The thing is to just carry on'
- 9:30 Dr Matire Harwood - Champion for Maori health
- 10:05 Michael Connelly - Crime writer on his new Harry Bosch book
- 10:30 Poet Michael Pedersen - "the throaty voice of modern Scotland"
- 11:05 Marc Taddei - Fanfare For The Common Man
- 11:45 Documenting the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 19 October 2019
Saturday, 12 October 2019
- 8:12 Turkish forces move in to northern Syria as the US withdraws
- 8:30 A bright future for seaweed farming in NZ?
- 9:05 White Teeth Author Zadie Smith on her short fiction experiment
- 9:40 Kim Gordon: 'I never questioned that I would succeed at something'
- 10:05 Megan Phelps Roper - Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
- 11:05 Mike White - How to Walk a Dog
- 11:35 Doug Wilson - Science vs Ageing
- 11:55 Listener feedback
Saturday, 5 October 2019
- 8:10 Anti-Springbok-tour veterans on the power of HART
- 8:40 Author Melissa Anelli - cyberstalked by New Zealander
- 9:05 Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower author
- 9:35 The Manus Island recording project - sounds of life in detention
- 10:05 Straight male escort John Oh: 'I love my job'
- 10:35 The dark history of New Zealand's leper colony
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Mike Chunn
- 11:59 Listener feedback for Saturday Morning for 5 October 2019
Saturday, 28 September 2019
- 8:12 Donald Trump - on the road to impeachment?
- 8:28 Nir Eyal: why tech addiction is a myth
- 9:07 Robert Macfarlane goes Underland
- 10:06 Geena Davis - Champion for women on screen
- 10:30 Carlos Acosta - Cuban ballet star
- 11:04 Bellingcat founder on the power of citizen journalism
- 11:43 Gregory O'Brien - Always Song in the Water
- 11:55 Listener feedback 28 September 2019
Saturday, 21 September 2019
- 8:10 Richard Easther- what can a new interstellar comet tell us?
- 8:35 Nick Wareham- how to tackle New Zealand's diabetes epidemic
- 9:05 Eighties pop icon tours New Zealand
- 9:40 ‘Ghost Wall’ author’s Brexit parable
- 10:05 Intermittent fasting: could it help you live longer!?
- 11:04 Tim Flannery: 20 years in climate activism a 'colossal failure'
- 11:35 Pete Bossley - A NZ architect’s unique OE
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 21 September 2019
Saturday, 14 September 2019
- 8:12 Vaping - Are safety concerns overblown?
- 8:50 Nika Rua - The pardoning of Rua Kenana
- 9:08 Deborah Small - Racism and the "War on Drugs"
- 9:43 Lila Madden - Year 13 Eureka! Award winner
- 10:07 Alison Bell - The Letdown
- 10:33 Crime writer Val McDermid - How the Dead Speak
- 11:08 Rebecca Priestley - Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica
- 11:40 Listener Feedback for 14 September 2019
- 11:40 Hadley Wickham - open source data wrangler
Saturday, 7 September 2019
- 8:10 Scott Higham - Big Pharma's role in the US opioid crisis
- 8:35 Diana Sarfati - The future of cancer in New Zealand
- 9:06 Celebrity profile writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- 9:35 David Schurmann - A Brazilian lens on New Zealand
- 10:05 How statistics can help us separate fact from fiction
- 11:05 Gina Martin - Anti-voyeurism activist
- 11:35 Filmmaker Sima Urale
- 11:59 Listener feedback for Saturday 7 September 2019
Saturday, 31 August 2019
- 8:10 Ruth Mottram - The melting of Greenland's ice sheet
- 8:30 Salman Rushdie - Reimagining Don Quixote
- 9:06 Inventor Keith Alexander - Springfree tramps to flying machines
- 10:05 Tangaroa Walker - Dairy Farmer 4 Life
- 10:30 Hany Farid - Are Deep Fakes a real problem?
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Craig Potton
- 11:59 Listener feedback for Saturday 31 August 2019
Saturday, 24 August 2019
- 8:11 Decolonising the justice system
- 9:07 The hidden casualties of Duterte's war on drugs
- 9:30 Evolutionary ecologist who found god via Richard Dawkins
- 10:07 New poet laureate David Eggleton
- 10:12 Kevin Briggs - Preventing suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge
- 10:40 Julie Nolan - Bringing Janet Frame to the stage
- 11:06 Pablo Garcia Borboroglu - Protecting penguins
- 11:40 Kate's Klassics: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
- 11:55 Listener feedback for Saturday 24 August 2019
Saturday, 17 August 2019
- 8:13 A cure for Ebola? Virologist Chris Smith
- 8:27 A Woman Like Her
- 9:08 Janine Barchas: Jane Austen for the people
- 9:46 Fighting the billion dollar problem posed by ransomware
- 10:07 Allbirds founder Tim Brown on sustainability and shoes
- 10:30 The Art of Eavesdropping
- 11:05 Playing favourites with Garage Project's Pete Gillespie
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 17 August 2019
Saturday, 10 August 2019
- 8:10 David Carroll - Cambridge Analytica and ‘The Great Hack’
- 9:10 Eve Ensler: 'Writing an apology to myself from my abusive father has freed me'
- 9:35 Professor Robert Wade - Trump and the rise of the "Strongman"
- 10:05 David Suchet - Hercule Poirot, and more
- 10:30 Michel Tuffery - Elevating the unsung hero of Cook's Endeavour
- 11:05 Joe Dolce: the poet behind Shaddap You Face
- 11:40 Tara Murray - Protecting our native grasshoppers
- 11:59 Listener feedback for Saturday Morning for 10 August 2019
Saturday, 3 August 2019
- 8:10 Breakthrough cancer treatment coming to New Zealand
- 9:07 Richard Whitman - Can the union survive Boris Johnson?
- 9:30 Felicity Gerry - Fearless QC creates legal history
- 10:25 Midge Ure - Riding high on new wave music for almost 40 years
- 11:06 DeRay Mckesson - Race and Justice in a Divided America
- 11:40 Doug Wilson - Walking your way to better aging
Saturday, 27 July 2019
- 8:15 Peeni Henare - Government reversal on stoush at Ihumatao
- 8:25 Scott Donaldson - the first person to kayak the Tasman solo
- 9:04 Jamie Morton: My Dad Wrote a Porno
- 9:30 Dr Florian Graichen - Tackling plastic waste
- 10:04 Elspeth Sandys - Author of A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley
- 10:40 Dave Veart on Ihumātao: 'the legislation is failing us'
- 11:04 Edo de Waart: World authority on Beethoven brings all nine of his symphonies to NZ audiences
- 11:40 Dani Valent - A food critic's take on the Masterchef Australia brouhaha
Saturday, 20 July 2019
- 8:15 Katie Simpson - Can Justin Trudeau win the Canadian election?
- 8:40 Anne-Marie Connor - Ebola's deadly return
- 8:50 Daniel Ryntjes - Iran seizes two UK tankers
- 9:05 Victor Rodger and Robbie Magasiva - Club Paradiso revival
- 9:35 Professor Michelle Glass on cannabis and synthetic cannabinoids
- 10:05 Susan Buckland - The colourful life of Sir Ernest Hyam Davis
- 10:35 Peter Falkenberg - 40 years of the Christchurch Free Theatre
- 11:05 Justin Pemberton - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- 11:40 Joseph Michael - When art and science collide
- 11:55 Listener feedback
Saturday, 13 July 2019
- 8:10 Lisa Taddeo on Three Women, exploring female desire and sex
- 9:05 Tom Jennings on his documentary of archival footage of the Apollo moon missions
- 9:35 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eric Cornell who discovered new state of matter
- 10:04 Marianne Schultz
- 10:40 Space Oddity at 50: the 'novelty song' that became a cultural touchstone
- 11:04 Helen Russell - Author uncovers the secrets of happiness
- 11:40 Julia Deans - Famous Cantabrian expats stage Like Water
Saturday, 6 July 2019
- 8:11 Dr Merlyn Hay - Vet who discovered M. Bovis
- 8:35 Prof. Howard Gendelman - Eliminating HIV from the DNA of mice
- 9:08 Simon Schama - Historian and author's love affair with words
- 9:45 Arthur Tompkins - Art Crime
- 10:08 Dr Karen Grylls - long-time advocate for choral music
- 10:35 Brett Doar - contraptionist, kinetic sculptor, and engineer
- 11:05 John Flux - Lifelong ecologist
- 11:45 Lisa McMillan - Sharing food in the nude
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 6 July 2019
