All episodes
Saturday, 24 March 2018
- 8:09 Alex Perry - The Good Mothers
- 9:05 Cenk Uygur - The Young Turks
- 9:40 Gigi Fenster - Feverish
- 10:05 'Artificial womb' offers hope for premature babies
- 11:05 Catherine Callaghan - Taking silk
- 11:30 David Stratton - A cinematic life
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 24 March 2018
Saturday, 17 March 2018
- 8:10 Kapka Kassabova - Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
- 8:40 Veronica Stevenson - The solitary Australian bee that could
- 9:07 Sir Lloyd Geering at 100: ‘I find a lot of things to rejoice in'
- 9:40 Mark Derby - Pioneer of battlefield surgery
- 10:07 Larissa Behrendt - After the Apology
- 10:40 Joanna Murray-Smith - Switzerland and other thrillers
- 11:05 Peter Wells - Dear Oliver
- 11:40 Kate Camp - Rebecca
- 11:55 Listener feedback 17 March 2018
Saturday, 10 March 2018
- 8:10 Lydia Syson - Mr Peacock's Possessions
- 9:07 Jim Kennett - Ocean discovery
- 9:35 Harry Giles - Fun & Games
- 10:07 Professor James Belich - The Black Death
- 10:40 Mimi Pond - I love to draw
- 11:05 Dame Carol Robinson - Elemental medicine
- 11:40 Alex Fegan - Older Than Ireland
Saturday, 3 March 2018
- 8:12 Geoff Sobelle - Home
- 8:50 Nina Tonga - Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists
- 9:07 Writers & Readers at the NZ Festival
- 10:05 Jim Murphy and Michael Norris - Mechanical Ballet
- 10:32 Sule Rimi and Kwami Odoom - Barber Shop Chronicles
- 11:04 Zoe Coombs Marr - Trigger Warning
- 11:25 Shelagh Magadza - festival artistic director
- 11:40 Jonathon Young - Betroffenheit
Saturday, 24 February 2018
- 8:10 Austin Eubanks - Surviving trauma after Columbine
- 9:05 Michael Mann: fighting for facts
- 9:40 Richard Hall - Reflections of a hunter
- 10:04 Dan Nocera: Deadhead bringing power to the people
- 11:04 Ursula Dubosarsky - Stories for children
- 11:35 Angus Trumble - The role of the portrait
- 11:59 Listener Feedback
Saturday, 17 February 2018
- 8:09 Johann Hari - Lost Connections
- 9:05 Professor Hamish Spencer - Eugenics at the edge of empire
- 9:35 Tamara Rojo - Giselle reimagined
- 9:35 Tamara Rojo - Giselle reimagined
- 10:04 Patricia Lockwood: Speaking from silenced places
- 10:04 Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy
- 11:05 Peter Hitchens: The UK is an 'atrophied' nation
- 11:05 Peter Hitchens - Brexit from the right
- 11:40 Luke Willis Thompson - autoportrait
- 11:40 Luke Willis Thompson - autoportrait
- 11:55 Listener Feedback
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Saturday, 10 February 2018
- 8:09 Nicholas Boyle: Brexit is a collective English breakdown
- 8:45 Why we mix up movies and real life
- 9:04 Shaun Bythell - Diary of a bookseller
- 10:04 Buffalo business: Making mozzarella in Clevedon
- 10:35 Max Patte - Haere ra, Aotearoa
- 11:05 Kupe composer Warren Maxwell: 'It’s going to be big'
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 10 February 2018
Saturday, 3 February 2018
- 8:10 Tim Atkins - Mission to Mars
- 8:35 Max Richter - Sleep
- 9:06 Peggy Seeger: First Time Ever
- 10:05 Eric Topol - Towards High-Definition, Individualised Medicine
- 10:30 Josh Gerstein - Republican memo released
- 11:04 Michael Laws - In defence of rodeo
- 11:30 Cherry Lewis - Mr Parkinson, of Parkinson's Disease
- 11:55 Listener Feedback
Saturday, 27 January 2018
- 8:09 Professor Richard Easther - Super blue blood moon eclipse
- 8:25 Michael Wolff: 'Donald Trump is truly stupid'
- 9:05 Dr Peggy Larson - Rodeo wrongs
- 9:35 Maja Lunde - The History of Bees
- 10:05 Dr Kara Filbey - Lessons from parasitic worms
- 11:05 Oscar Kightley - Dawn Raids revisited
- 11:35 Megan Dunn - Tinderbox
- 11:55 Listener Feedback
Saturday, 23 December 2017
- 8:07 Alastair McClymont - The forgotten Holocaust in Lithuania
- 8:35 Nick Halliwell - Brexit break-up album
- 9:07 Mike Ladd - Invisible mending
- 9:40 Dianne Buchan - Sun, Sea and Sustenance
- 10:08 Alison Phipps - Refugee stories in Scotland
- 10:35 Teremoana Rapley - An ode to my ancestors
- 11:04 Kate Robertson - Top Tracks 2017
Saturday, 16 December 2017
- 8:20 Anthony Daniels (aka Theodore Dalrymple) - The Proper Procedure
- 9:10 Barbara J King - Personalities on the Plate
- 9:35 Simon Morton - Undercover Uber
- 10:04 Chris Nichol - Beginnings and endings
- 11:08 The best books of 2017
- 11:59 Feedback for Saturday Morning for 16 December 2017
Saturday, 9 December 2017
- 8:10 Luke Harding: How Russia helped Trump win the White House
- 9:06 Christopher Pugsley - Aotearoa's first films
- 9:35 Kathy Campbell - Did life begin on land or in the sea?
- 10:04 Kim Chambers - The world's most badass swimmer
- 10:30 Michael Keegan-Dolan - Reinventing Swan Lake
- 11:04 Amy Tan: Where the past begins
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday 9 December
Saturday, 2 December 2017
- 8:10 Damion Searls - The Inkblots
- 9:06 Don Brash - Ragging on Te Reo
- 9:35 John Collins - In Hemingway's Words
- 10:05 Jonathan Sinclair - Exit interview
- 10:35 Fiona Vera-Gray - women on porn
- 11:05 Owen King - Sleeping Beauties
- 11:40 Kate Camp - Menton debrief
- 11:55 Listener Feedback
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