All episodes
Saturday, 29 June 2019
- 8:12 Dr Paul Wood: 'Prison was the most useful thing I could have experienced'
- 9:04 Alan Elliott - Resurrecting the Amazing Grace
- 9:40 Finn McCahon-Jones - Colin McCahon's curatorial flair
- 10:04 Shaun Barnett and Chris Maclean - NZ's first tramping club
- 10:45 Ines Moran - Cuckoo vs Rifleman
- 11:04 Sother Teague - New York mixologist and anti-Trump campaigner
- 11:35 Gunter Herbig - the music of Mansfield's favourite mystic
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 29 June 2019
Saturday, 22 June 2019
- 8:12 Arundhati Roy on writing and politics
- 9:06 Leaving Country Life to return to the country life
- 10:05 Swedish photographer wins plaudits for Migrant Caravan
- 10:05 Playing Favourites with Julian Arahanga
- 11:05 Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
- 11:40 Kate's Klassics: James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 22 June 2019
Saturday, 15 June 2019
- 8:09 Louis Theroux: the TV version of me is semi-fictional
- 8:40 Nisa – the Wellington underwear brand employing former refugees
- 9:05 Toby Faber - The untold story of Faber & Faber publishing
- 9:45 Ronnie van Hout - Artist behind new Auckland public art
- 10:05 The pact of forgetting the years of Franco's dictatorship
- 10:35 Enda Walsh - stage adaptation of hit movie Once
- 11:05 Natalie Wynn (aka ContraPoints) - the 'Oscar Wilde of YouTube'
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 15 June 2019
Saturday, 8 June 2019
- 8:10 Anna Fifield: 'Don't underestimate Kim Jong Un'
- 9:06 Sarah Gaitanos: Examining the life of Shirley Smith
- 9:40 Dr Jo James - Virtual Pregnancy
- 10:09 Amy Adrion: Director of Half the Picture
- 10:45 Ataahua Papa - Ko Matariki te kairuuri o Te Mangooroa
- 11:07 Paula Morris - À Menton
- 11:25 Dr Graeme Downs and Victoria Kelly
Saturday, 1 June 2019
- 8:12 Martin Wylie - Should some make less than the minimum wage?
- 8:35 Wendy Parkins - Every morning, so far, I'm alive
- 9:05 John Walker - Assholes: A Theory
- 9:35 Qiane Matata-Sipu - Kickass indigenous wahine
- 10:10 Sean Mallon - Tatau: A History of Samoan Tattooing
- 11:06 How far should one care for a triggered audience?
- 11:35 Nga Hine Pukorero - Brave New Voices
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 1 June 2019
Saturday, 25 May 2019
- 8:00 Can hallucinogenic drugs treat depression?
- 8:20 Ruby Porter - Award-winning debut novel Attraction
- 9:04 Anne Perkins - Adios Theresa May
- 9:20 Vincent O'Malley - The New Zealand Wars/ Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa
- 10:04 Dr Hilary Chung - Living with metastatic breast cancer
- 10:45 Guyon Espiner investigates Pharmac
- 11:04 Andrew McConnell - The everyday life of the people of GAZA
- 11:45 Hannah Burgoyne - Heritage Tour of the Former 1YA Building
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 25 May
Saturday, 18 May 2019
- 8:15 Josh Gerstein - Australia's deal to resettle terrorists
- 8:45 Glynn Owens, the retired professor who's one of NZ's best pole dancers
- 9:04 Murray Cammick and Chris Bourke - Rip It Up meets digital age
- 10:04 Carla Guelfenbein - In the Distance with You
- 10:30 Ken Ramirez - Understanding Dogs and other animals
- 11:04 Douglas Coupland: I miss my pre-internet brain
- 11:40 Annabel Crabb - Australia Decides 2019
Saturday, 11 May 2019
- 8:09 Caster Semenya and the myth of testosterone
- 9:04 American musician Jeff Tweedy on writing, anxiety and addiction
- 9:40 Bryony James - Do crunchy foods make you fuller?
- 10:04 Dustin Lance Black - Mama's Boy
- 11:04 Cliff Curtis - How Merata Mita decolonised the screen
- 11:40 Alison Stringer - Gathering mushrooms in May
- 11:55 Listener feedback
Saturday, 4 May 2019
- 8:14 Donna Farhi - Yoga's culture of abuse
- 9:06 Anne Michaels - Canadian poet and author of Fugitive Pieces
- 9:35 Dr Helen Jacobi - Violence in the house of God
- 10:05 Mary Kisler - Finding Frances Hodgkins
- 10:38 Dr Rochelle Constantine - Whale poo divulges its secrets
- 11:06 Shayne Carter on his memoir Dead People I Have Known
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 4 May 2019
Saturday, 27 April 2019
- 8:11 Jonathan Freedland: 'The man without shame has tremendous power'
- 9:05 Artemis Cooper - Doyenne of the historical biography
- 9:35 Paul Hunt - NZ's new Human Rights Commissioner
- 10:05 Dr Lisa Sanders - Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
- 11:04 Lost in Vagueness: Extravagance and opulence at Glastonbury
- 11:35 Dr Dean Peterson - Te Taiao Nature exhibition to open
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 27 April 2019
Saturday, 20 April 2019
- 8:12 Monica Hingston - Lesbian ex-nun who stood up to George Pell
- 8:40 Oobah Butler: the English writer who passed his garden shed off as a top-rated restaurant
- 9:04 Porochista Khakpour - Sick
- 9:35 Dot Kettle - Peony power
- 10:04 Christina Thompson - The Puzzle of Polynesia
- 10:40 John Reynolds - the lost hours of Colin McCahon
- 11:04 Liz Calder: Star ex-pat publisher is honoured in Christchurch
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 20 April 2019
Saturday, 13 April 2019
- 8:15 Soothing international disputes with science diplomacy
- 9:04 Go, Went, Gone - the asylum seeker experience in Germany
- 9:30 Understanding Neanderthals and our relationship to them
- 10:04 Maria Tumarkin - How are we to live after trauma?
- 10:40 Max Olijnyk: why I love skateboarding
- 11:04 Gretchen Albrecht, Luke Smythe: Between gesture and geometry
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 13 April 2019
Saturday, 6 April 2019
- 8:12 Colin Keating - 25th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide
- 8:40 Margaret Long - Frensham Gardens
- 9:04 Norah Jones - Balladeer releases new album Begin Again
- 9:25 Sarah Perry on leaving the church to become a writer
- 10:04 Reuben Friend and Ioana Gordon-Smith - A camera on the shore
- 10:40 Dr Natalie Schilling - Solving crimes through language
- 11:05 Luke Wright - Poet, performer, publisher, and broadcaster
- 11:40 Kate Camp - Kate's Klassics: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- 11:59 Listener feedback for Saturday Morning 6 April 2019
Saturday, 30 March 2019
- 8:12 Alex Thomson - Mozambique after cyclone Idai
- 8:30 Ian McEwan: 'I’m a total news junkie, even as it gives me enormous pain'
- 9:06 Karley Sciortino: I'm pretty slutty
- 9:25 Neil Finn's tour of NZ town halls documented in new book
- 10:04 David Chariandy - I've been meaning to tell you
- 10:35 Renee Liang and Michele Powles - When we remember to breathe
- 11:04 Caroline Easther - ex-Chills Drummer spins her favourite tunes
Saturday, 23 March 2019
- 8:12 Åsne Seierstad on the anatomy of white terror
- 8:35 Muslim radicalisation vs white supremacy radicalisation
- 9:04 Kamila Shamsie - Home Fire
- 9:45 Anne Perkins - Brexit latest
- 10:04 Carl Shuker - author of A Mistake
- 10:40 Dr John Buckleton - Top forensics team win PM's Science Prize
- 11:04 Vicki Saunders - SHeEO activators empower female entrepreneurs
- 11:35 Rebecca Vaughan - Orlando
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 23 March 2019
Saturday, 9 March 2019
- 8:15 Dame Annette King - The Authorised Biography
- 9:10 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett - The future of Holocaust museums
- 9:45 Doug Wilson - Young Blood for Old: Miracle or Scam
- 10:09 Frédéric Martel: In the Closet of the Vatican
- 10:40 Dr Helen Taylor - Tuatara sperm caught on camera
- 11:12 Wallis Bird - Songbird on the world stage
Saturday, 2 March 2019
- 8:09 Adventurer Chloe Phillips-Harris: 'It's about doing it anyway'
- 9:06 Chris Christie on Trump, Cohen, and his new book
- 9:35 NZ sex work model a world leader, expert says
- 10:04 House of Travel CEO: 'Corporate life wasn't for me'
- 10:04 Phil Price - Master of the kinetic sculpture
- 11:04 David Ireland - Ulster American comes to Aotearoa
- 11:25 Alejandro Escovedo: Mexican-American sings of American dream
- 11:55 Listener feedback
Saturday, 23 February 2019
- 8:12 Dave Cullen - Author takes on new tragedy with Parkland
- 9:07 Ross McCormack - As It Stands
- 9:38 Nick Offerman - Carpenter and character actor heads to NZ
- 10:07 Julie Bindel - Come on feminists, ditch the makeup bag
- 10:40 Harry and Michaela Sangl - The lost Te Kuia Moko
- 11:06 Jacqueline Curley - Death and devastation on Queensland farms
- 11:17 Terry Crayford - Virtuoso piano player
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 23 February 2019
Saturday, 16 February 2019
- 8:10 Charlie Reid: the Proclaimers on the way to Aotearoa
- 8:40 Queen of the Succulents: Debra Lee Baldwin
- 9:07 Michael Fuhrer - The Future of Computing
- 9:40 Nathan Joe - A new play for Auckland Fringe: I am Rachel Chu
- 10:06 Reinier de Graaf: social housing and disappearing architects
- 10:40 Chigozie Obioma pens second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities
- 11:05 Genesis Butler - Diet change not climate change
- 11:15 Fleur Adcock on her life in poetry
Saturday, 9 February 2019
- 8:10 Gays For Trump leader Peter Boykin: 'We will re-elect him'
- 8:32 Live cross to Nelson, update on Tasman fires.
- 9:06 James Crabb - Accordion virtuoso
- 9:47 Deborah Alma - Dispensing literary first aid
- 10:06 Stephanie Land - Working class poverty in the US
- 10:50 Diarmuid Brazendale - Redwood resident flees fire
- 11:05 Moe Laga - COVEN
- 11:20 Sam Phillips - Singer-songwriter and her World on Sticks
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 9 February 2019
Saturday, 2 February 2019
- 8:10 Professor Richard Sullivan - A global view of cancer treatment
- 9:05 Nancy Gertner - An 'unrepentant advocate' for civil liberties
- 9:40 Gregory Burke - Returning to head Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- 10:06 Barrie Kosky - Sending Magic Flute to Auckland Arts Festival
- 11:06 Professor Richard Whitman - Brexit fallout for Aotearoa
- 11:40 Ian Bruce: The Correspondents return to WOMAD
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 2 February 2019
Saturday, 26 January 2019
- 8:13 Barbara Kingsolver - Unsheltered
- 9:06 UK criminologist David Best on addiction recovery in prisons
- 9:43 Donna Rutherford - Award-winning story draws on Celtic folklore
- 10:10 JP Pomare - Call Me Evie
- 11:07 Peter White - Taking a genetics fight to the Aussie cane toad
- 11:20 Sharon Van Etten on leaving New York, motherhood and new album Remind Me Tomorrow
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 26 January 2019
Saturday, 22 December 2018
- 8:12 Simon Denny - A year of The Founder's Paradox
- 9:06 Jed Mercurio - Writer of Bodyguard and Line of Duty
- 9:40 Zoe George - Women and sport, 2018
- 10:05 Robyn - New album: Honey
- 10:40 Leah McFall: is the role of royal women to have babies, look good and keep quiet?
- 11:05 Rose Matafeo - comedienne extraordinaire
- 11:40 Jordan Rondel - beyond Christmas cake
Saturday, 15 December 2018
- 8:09 Anne Perkins - BREXIT latest
- 8:35 Paula Morris - Bonjour Menton
- 9:04 Professor Mohamad Abdalla - Muslim in Australia
- 9:35 MasterChef's Matt Preston: sharp-dressed foodie
- 10:04 Debs Martin - Pelorus Sound long-tailed bat project
- 10:20 Dr Mike Murphy - Developing anti-oxidants that fight aging
- 11:04 The best books of 2018
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 15 December 2018
