All episodes
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
Saturday, 11 March 2017
- 8:12 Flooding in Auckland and the Coromandel Peninsular
- 8:18 Ichiro Kawachi: nudging people towards better health
- 9:06 Dr Neha Sangwan: stress, communication and healthcare
- 9:36 Professor Martyn Goulding: the mysteries of the spinal cord
- 10:06 A wild, dark whaling tale
- 10:32 Phil Dadson: soundtracks of delight
- 11:06 Steve Bell: drawing dissent
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 11 March 2017
Saturday, 4 March 2017
This week on Saturday Morning: Kim talks to Dr Carol Shand, one of Wellington's first abortion doctors and someone who devoted her 40-year career to the treatment and care of sex abuse victims; RNZ's own Phil Pennington on his new book Surviving 7.8, written on the back of covering the Kaikoura earthquakes; Professor David Heymann discusses how humanity can tackle big pandemics; Arthur Tompkins on art crime - this time, the mysterious fate of the Timbuktu Papers; distinguished author and poet Bill Manhire previews his collection of riddles set to music; US author Jessa Crispin explains why she's turned off modern feminism, and Mary Kisler looks at a collection of nudes about to go on show at Auckland Art Gallery - Toi O Tamaki.
Full episodeSaturday, 25 February 2017
- 8:12 Peter Zanzottera and Dr Hamish Mackie: Building 'Bikeability'
- 9:05 Dr Paul Young: Improving Intensive Care
- 9:30 Hugh McCarroll: The Space Poop Challenge
- 10:05 Dame Georgina Mace: Valuing Nature
- 10:05 Professor Eric Rignot: The Tale Told by Polar Ice Sheets
- 10:38 Blitzed: the Nazis and drugs
- 11:38 Armando Lucas Correa: The German Girl
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 25 February 2017
Saturday, 18 February 2017
Kim Hill talks to Melanie Nezer from the US refugee advocacy organisation HIAS about why it's suing the Trump Administration; Tanu Gago on his Pacific LGBTQ arts collective FAFSWAG's works in the Auckland Pride Festival; Pip Rea on her work helping women transition out of sex work in Kolkata; David Carnegie and Peter Hambleton on almost four decades of Wellington Summer Shakespeare; historian and documentary star Bettany Hughes on the history of Istanbul; Jane Austen expert Devony Looser talks literature and roller derby; director Danny Boyle talks to Kim ahead of the red carpet premiere of his new film T2 Trainspotting, and Kate Camp gives us her take on another 'klassic', this time: Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
Full episodeSaturday, 11 February 2017
This week: Kim talks to award-winning journalist Matt Nippert about uncovering US Billionaire Peter Thiel's NZ citizenship; another New Zealand journalist, Emma Beals, has won a major US media award for her work in keeping war correspondents safer; Professor David Leigh tells us about molecular machines - and why they are so important; Sir David Adjaye, one of the world's top architects, shares the highlights of a phenomenal career; actor, writer and musician Richard von Sturmer talks about his new book This Explains Everything; Bennie 'Big Peter' Pete, leader of the Hot 8 Brass Band, talks about the group's tragic and triumphant rise to fame; creativity expert Tom Kelley on the importance of risk-taking; and actor and artist Carl Bland discusses his new work, SPIRIT HOUSE.
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