All episodes
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
Saturday, 3 June 2017
- 8:12 Anna Leask - Behind bars
- 8:40 Steven Rood - Terror in the Philippines
- 9:06 Arundhati Roy - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- 9:40 Rory Christian - Keeping the lights on
- 10:06 Jan Bernheim - Belgium's end-of-life expertise
- 10:37 Guerrilla Girls - Culture jamming the world of art
- 11:07 Jonathan Taplin - social media vs democracy
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 3 June 2017
Saturday, 27 May 2017
- 8:12 Wayne Smith - A rugby legend backs Ride of the Legends
- 9:05 Jason Donovan: mature pop idol
- 9:35 Jacqueline Fahey - Cutting loose
- 10:05 Neil Degrasse Tyson - A Cosmic Perspective
- 10:20 Prof Michael Jackson - The wherewithal of life
- 11:05 Todd Niall - Team NZ setting sail in Bermuda
- 11:20 Ryan Adams: cat-loving balladeer
Saturday, 20 May 2017
- 8:12 Tommy Rhattigan - bread, jam and terror
- 8:50 Charles Lane - Trump vs the FBI
- 9:08 Max Gimblett - The Quatrefoil King
- 10:05 Ariel Levy - rules do not apply
- 10:35 Daniel Falconer - On the trail of Sasquatch
- 11:05 David Dolan - Please don't stop the music
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 20 May 2017
Saturday, 13 May 2017
- 8:12 Anne Enright - Ireland's Fiction Laureate
- 9:06 Graham Lowe - A league of his own
- 9:35 Annette Dixon - Leading the World Bank in South Asia
- 10:06 Don Franks - Marxist musician
- 10:50 Global cyberattack
- 11:07 Idelber Avelar - Tumult and Temer
- 11:35 Molly Sokhom - Sokhom Syndrome
Saturday, 6 May 2017
- 8:12 Professor Campbell McLachlan - Ever-evolving Brexit battles
- 8:30 Lorde: Sharing the brand new sounds from her mind
- 9:10 Frances Hardinge - The Lie Tree and dark stories
- 9:30 Dr Lobsang Sangay - Leader of a government-in-exile
- 10:05 A.N Wilson - The myth of the objective biography
- 10:35 Neal Stephenson - Postcyberpunk author and futurist
- 11:05 Nikki Gemmell: After the death of Elayn
- 11:35 Dr Julian Fennessy - Sticking your neck out for giraffes
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 6 May 2017
Saturday, 29 April 2017
- 8:12 Donna Chisholm: defending David Dougherty
- 8:22 Piet Chielens - In Flanders Fields
- 9:05 Mary Coughlan - Bloody Mary
- 9:45 Arthur Tompkins - Raphael's Sistine Madonna
- 10:05 George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo
- 10:35 Danny Sriskandarajah - Civil society in jeopardy
- 11:00 David White - Where does our MEAT come from?
- 11:35 Alan Jansson - A tribute to Graham Brazier
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 29 April 2017
Saturday, 22 April 2017
- 8:12 Alan Gibbs: Luxury cars and laissez-faire economics
- 9:12 Margaret Atwood: The resurgence of The Handmaid's Tale
- 9:44 Virginia Hanlon Grohl: From Cradle to Stage
- 10:05 Sir Venki Ramikrishnan: Antibiotics and the cell's protein factory
- 10:55 Kim Griggs - moving Te Tiriti
- 11:05 Martino Gamper - 100 chairs for 100 days
- 11:35 Professor Tim Fitzpatrick - Measuring the Globe
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 22 April 2017
Saturday, 15 April 2017
- 8:15 Christy Goldfuss - science in the time of Trump
- 8:35 Dan Schultz - protecting your search history
- 9:05 Ian Rankin - Rebus at retirement
- 10:05 Quin Tang - Half a Walnut Tree
- 10:35 Susan Calman - The Scottish storyteller
- 11:05 Miranda Harcourt and Bridget Mahy - The Changeover
- 11:40 Professor Catherine Donnelly - A long history of cheese
Saturday, 8 April 2017
- 8:09 Professor Rouben Azizian
- 8:35 Alison Ballance - tracking great whites
- 9:09 Sequoia di Angelo - a proud and tragic legacy
- 9:35 Frederik Stjernfelt - Seven myths about Martin Luther
- 10:09 Walter Scheidel - Violence as the great leveler
- 10:35 Rafeef Ziadah - Shades of anger
- 11:09 Bill Nighy - Their Finest
- 11:35 Kate Camp - À Menton
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 8 April 2017
Saturday, 1 April 2017
- 8:12 Elizabeth Stanley - The Road to Hell
- 9:05 Professor Carol Sanger - About Abortion
- 9:35 Tusi Tamasese - One Thousand Ropes
- 10:05 Peter Lilley - Backing Brexit
- 10:35 Lauren Child - Through the Eyes of Children
- 11:05 Eleanor Bishop - Foreskin's Lament revisited
- 11:35 Roger Horrocks - On an Island
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 1 April 2017
Saturday, 25 March 2017
- 8:08 Dr Nafeez Ahmed - failing states and collapsing systems
- 9:08 Professor Russell Snell - the hunt for autism genes
- 9:35 Dr Robin Grimes - the nuclear option
- 10:08 Armando Iannucci - satirising political spin
- 10:34 Harry Leslie Smith - 'Don't let the mean streets of my past be our future'
- 11:08 David Vann - Bright Air Black
- 11:40 Kate De Goldi - Snow White and the two other books
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 25 March 2017
Saturday, 18 March 2017
- 8:12 Susan Faludi on gender and identity
- 9:05 George Farrant on preserving historic Auckland
- 9:30 Rachel Batterham - gut reactions to obesity
- 10:05 Terry Waite - Out of the Silence
- 11:05 Minnie Baragwanath - the battle for accessible healthcare
- 11:40 The Bollands - All of My Ghosts
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 18 March 2017
