All episodes
Saturday, 25 November 2017
- 8:12 Richard F Thomas - Why Dylan Matters
- 9:07 John Daysh - Farming ingenuity
- 9:35 Steve Lazarides - The Art of Banksy
- 10:07 Campbell Smith - From the ashes of the Big Day Out
- 11:06 David Marr - View from Australia
- 11:35 Ginette McDonald and Kate McGill - Playing Joan Scott
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 25 November 2017
Saturday, 18 November 2017
- 8:09 Sef Darby - The Ground Between
- 8:35 Mick Fleetwood: 'We had no raging ambition to be pop stars'
- 9:05 Anthony Byrt and Simon Denny - The Founder's Paradox
- 9:35 Leonardo da Vinci: the orginal Renaissance man
- 10:06 Renée - Life story told in patches
- 11:05 Gavin Hipkins - Tourist of photography
- 11:30 Christine Fernyhough - The Museum of the Everyday
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 18 November
Saturday, 11 November 2017
- 8:10 Stuart Washington - Paradise Papers
- 8:40 Kelda Hains: 'I'm not into 'art on a plate'
- 9:08 Theresa Gattung - Creating SheEOs
- 9:30 Czemi and Mubeccel Akdis - Asthma and Allergies
- 10:07 William Taubman - Gorbachev
- 10:40 Dr Cherie Lacey and Dr Catherine Caudwell
- 11:07 NZTrio - Soar!
- 11:40 Nick Earls - Short and sweet fiction
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 11 November 2017
Saturday, 4 November 2017
- 8:10 Tane Hunter and Angus Hervey - Future Crunch
- 9:10 Sean Henry - Man with Potential Selves
- 10:07 Peta Carey - A Place for the Heart
- 10:27 Ahi Karunaharan - Tea
- 11:06 Tim Cope - On the Trail of Genghis Khan
- 11:47 Kate De Goldi - The Longest Breakfast
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 4 November 2017
Saturday, 28 October 2017
- 8:15 William Trubridge: the life aquatic
- 9:10 Tom Scott - Seriously Funny
- 10:10 Tamati Kruger - Koia mārika ‒ So it is
- 10:30 Jan Carson - 365 Postcard Stories
- 11:10 Jamie Joseph - Saving the Wild
- 11:30 Fasitua Amosa and David Fane - The Mountaintop
Saturday, 21 October 2017
- 8:15 Linda Tyler - RIP Francis Pound
- 8:30 Maxine Gay - The first lady of First Union
- 9:10 Peeni Henare - Stories of Ruapekapeka
- 9:30 Gordon McLauchlan - A Short History of New Zealand Wars
- 10:06 Shelagh Magadza - Festival Odyssey
- 10:33 Glen Matlock - Never Mind the Bollocks
- 11:08 Andrew Kelly - Keeping the Yarra River
- 11:20 Big Daddy Wilson - Ich liebe the blues
Saturday, 14 October 2017
- 8:10 Chelsea Cohen - Waru
- 8:37 Colin Wilson - Supervolcano sleuth
- 9:36 William Yang - The Story Only I Can Tell
- 9:40 Jackson Katz - Weinstein: Do men look the other way?
- 10:06 Chris Bourke - Good-bye Māoriland
- 11:06 Sarah Krasnostein - The Trauma Cleaner
- 11:40 Claudia Jardine and Michael O'Leary - Pubs and poetry
Saturday, 7 October 2017
- 8:10 Una Mullally - Ireland's abortion referendum
- 8:30 Michael Bruter - Testing European identity
- 9:08 Dr Homie Razavi - Eliminating Hepatitis C
- 9:40 Declan O'Rourke - In full colour
- 10:05 Stephen Goldson - Wasp v Weevil
- 10:35 Arthur Young - The Battle of Broodseinde
- 11:05 Peter Godfrey-Smith - consider the octopus
- 11:42 Angus Vail - Shakespeare Americana
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 7 October 2017
Saturday, 30 September 2017
- 8:10 Diana Wichtel - Driving to Treblinka
- 9:06 'Learning about the universe increases your empathy'
- 9:45 Art Crime: The mystery of Willem de Kooning's Woman-Ochre
- 10:04 Graeme Aitken - Called to teaching at 15
- 10:40 Al Brown revisits Kiwi food classics
- 11:08 Imani Winds - The Classical Underground
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 30 September 2017
Saturday, 23 September 2017
- 8:09 Ingólfur Sigfússon - Iceland's government melts down
- 8:30 Brent Williams: Depression just said 'you've got to face this'
- 9:05 Wu Man - Pipa virtuoso
- 9:30 Douglas Wright - Limbs@40
- 10:05 Kevin Esvelt - Sculpting evolution
- 11:05 David Day - Controversies of the frozen continent
- 11:35 CK Stead - The Allen Curnow I knew
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 23 September 2017
Saturday, 16 September 2017
- 8:09 Gordon Noble-Campbell
- 8:27 Robyn Archer - The Sound of Falling Stars
- 9:08 Brian Cox: 'Mars will be an interesting place to be'
- 9:36 Daniel Dor - Academic and activist
- 10:07 Midge Sanford - Desperately seeking funding
- 10:35 Kip Chapman - This bloody schedule
- 11:07 Sir Richard Faull and Bernie Crosby
- 11:40 David Paton - Ozzies need to eat their kangaroos
Saturday, 9 September 2017
- 8:11 Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi
- 8:50 Maggie Doherty - Defending Kate Millett
- 9:07 Jonathan Bielski - Auckland Arts Festival
- 9:35 Josephine Johnston - Promises and pitfalls of editing our genes
- 10:07 Judy Horton: Australian gardening guru
- 10:07 Colin Hogg - Favourites from The High Road
- 10:35 Dylan Mulder - From the World of Wearable Art to the world
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 9 September 2017
Saturday, 2 September 2017
- 8:08 Ian Shirley - Public policy pioneer
- 9:06 Dr Stuart Henrys & Dr Chris Hollis - Earth's Eighth Continent
- 9:35 Rob Wilkins - Steamrolling Sir Terry Pratchett
- 10:06 Rebecca Rudolph - Design, Bitches
- 10:40 Jon Carroll: 'Kids are less interested in traditional toys'
- 11:08 Nick Malmholt - Soap Star
- 11:35 Mary Kisler - The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 2 September 2017
Saturday, 26 August 2017
- 8:08 Dirk Kurbjuweit - Fear and the federal election
- 9:06 William Dalrymple - The Koh-I-Noor diamond
- 10:09 Will Steffen - the beginner's guide to the Anthropocene
- 10:40 Juliette Veber - Conversations with Teen Mums
- 11:40 Dr Cynric Temple-Camp: 'These stories belong to the dead'
- 11:40 Sonatane Kaufusi and Tim Randle - Stand Up, Stand Out
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday 26 August
Saturday, 19 August 2017
- 8:09 Peter Bradley - Running St John
- 9:08 Sinead O'Sullivan - Radical ideas
- 9:25 Harry Horton on Steve Bannon
- 9:40 Te Taka Keegan on technology, teaching and te reo
- 10:05 Charlotte Wood - The Natural Way of Things
- 11:05 Professor Julian Savulescu - The ethics of human enhancement
- 11:40 Gareth Ward - The Great Wardini
- 11:55 Listener feedback
Saturday, 12 August 2017
- 8:09 Jennifer Brea: 'ME is not about fatigue or tiredness'
- 8:45 Corey Mosen - Ajax the Kea Conservation Dog
- 9:08 Benoît Pelopidas - How close are we to nuclear war?
- 9:35 Robert Buratti - Occulture: The Dark Arts
- 10:04 Stephen Donald: 'I’ve had a charmed career'
- 10:35 Elizabeth Hawthorne - Blonde Poison
- 11:04 John Safran - Depends what you mean by extremist
- 11:45 Kate De Goldi - The picks of the local kids' book crop
- 11:55 Listener feedback
Saturday, 5 August 2017
- 8:10 Kate Adie - A world of conflict
- 8:45 Isabelle Lomax-Sawyers: weight and medicine
- 9:08 Justice Ian Binnie - Compensating David Bain
- 10:07 Michael Mansfield QC - In pursuit of the truth
- 11:06 Reni Eddo-Lodge
- 11:40 Ed Verner - The Pasture experience
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 5 August 2017
Saturday, 29 July 2017
- 8:10 Poorna Bell - Chase the Rainbow
- 9:10 Ken Loach: 'History doesn't stay still'
- 10:05 Dr Rick Legro - Obesity and fertility
- 10:30 Paul Wolffram - Initiation into a shaman cult
- 11:05 Emily Perkins - Ibsen and The Fuse Box
- 11:35 Andrew Beer - Baroque Voices
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 29 July 2017
Saturday, 22 July 2017
- 8:07 Scott MacLean - Flooding in the lower south
- 8:09 Brendan Cox - In memory of Jo
- 9:05 Michael Galinsky - America in protest
- 9:45 Arthur Tompkins - Shade and Darkness
- 10:05 Laura Spinney - Pale Rider
- 10:30 Sarah Smuts-Kennedy - Kauri and McCahon
- 11:05 Scott Brown - A model ambassador
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 22 July 2017
Saturday, 15 July 2017
- 8:09 Nazneen Rahman - The singing geneticist
- 9:09 Katie Somerville - Delightful Dior
- 9:30 Matt Tyrnauer - Citizen Jane
- 10:05 Shane Bosher - A Streetcar Named Desire
- 10:30 Joan Withers - A Woman's Place
- 11:05 Kathryn Harries - The Kiri Programme
- 11:40 'We need some uncomfortable conversations about cultural identity'
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 15 July 2017
Saturday, 8 July 2017
- 8:10 Issie Robertson - Teen takes on bioethics
- 8:25 Arie Havelaar - Food safety envoy
- 9:10 Mariano Sigman - The Secret Life of the Mind
- 9:38 Emer Reynolds - The Voyager in deep space
- 10:08 David Sedaris: 'I'm a desperately needy person'
- 11:07 Lisa-Maria Neudert - How social bots undermine democracy
- 11:34 Caves: Exploring New Zealand's Subterranean Wilderness
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 8 July 2017
Saturday, 1 July 2017
- 8:09 Johan Rockström - planetary boundaries
- 8:45 Kate Camp - French toast
- 10:10 Professor Tom Gilbert - Me, my dog and maize
- 10:10 David Diamond - Theatre for Living
- 11:05 Gerald McGhie - What do diplomats do?
- 11:40 Noelle McCarthy - a podcast and a baby
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 1 July 2017
Saturday, 24 June 2017
- 8:09 Polly Fisher - Velocity Made Good
- 8:30 Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere - Animal sentience and the law
- 9:05 Daphne Merkin - This Close to Happy
- 10:05 Rhema Vaithianathan - The algorithm ace
- 10:40 Linda Tyler - Francis Bacon and nudes
- 11:05 Barbara Francis - You Do Not Travel in China at the Full Moon
- 11:35 Kobi Bosshard: 'I am a craftsman, not an artist'
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 24 June 2017
Saturday, 17 June 2017
- 8:11 Vanessa Redgrave - Sea Sorrow
- 9:07 'Ample precedent' for impeachment, says academic
- 9:35 Mike Myers - Aussie answers in social housing
- 10:07 Warren Brookbanks - NZ's Centre for Non-Adversarial Justice
- 10:40 Romain Troublé - Sir Peter Blake's Legacy
- 11:05 Anthony Grant - Taking a punt on the Sculptureum
- 11:35 Holly Walker - The Whole Intimate Mess
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 17 June 2017
Saturday, 10 June 2017
- 8:10 Tim Bale - The UK decides
- 8:35 Iain Macwhirter - What the election means for Scotland
- 9:06 Winnie Byanyima - Disrupting the world order
- 9:43 Andrew Digby - Kakapo cursed with crusty bum
- 10:15 Tony Rousmaniere - What your therapist doesn't know
- 10:45 Stephanie Lake - If Never Was Now
- 11:07 Briar Grace-Smith - When Sun and Moon Collide
- 11:40 Kate De Goldi - Children's book roundup
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 10 June 2017
