All episodes
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.
Full episodeSaturday, 4 February 2017
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This Saturday morning: Dr Lester Levy, one of the country’s most powerful unelected officials, chairing three DHBs and lots more besides tells Kim why he’s the right man for all these jobs; Dr Andrew Ensor explains New Zealand’s pivotal role in the world’s largest science project the SKA Telescope; rock legend Don Henley talks about his environmentalism and upcoming NZ tour; Kerensa Johnston explains what it’s like running Wakatū, a business with 4,000 shareholders and a 500-year business plan; Rhona Fraser and Howard Moody give us a taste of Opera in a Days Bay Garden; author A. Scott Berg tells Kim about Max Perkins, Editor of Genius and Joanne Roughton-Arnold previews the NZ performance of her one-woman opera, Iris Dreaming.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 January 2017
- 8:12 Carey Gillam on science, food production and Trump
- 8:40 Tim Thorpe
- 8:45 Singer-songwriter Nadia Reid
- 9:05 Maria Slade on buying a home in NZ
- 9:35 Eugene Chirovici
- 10:05 Anthony Byrt previews a big year in the art world
- 10:27 Writer and book dealer Rick Gekoski
- 11:05 Dunedin poet and writer Talia Marshall
- 11:20 The London Klezmer Quartet
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 28 January
Saturday, 24 December 2016
- 8:14 Steve Tew: ‘We are a lightning rod for NZ society’
- 9:10 The women ‘computers’ who measured the stars
- 9:40 'I like things that take the circuitous route'
- 10:06 Greg O'Brien - the year in poetry
- 10:40 Graham Reid - music
- 11:09 The year's best books
Saturday, 17 December 2016
- 8:10 David Shearer on politics and peacekeeping
- 8:40 Charles Lane on Russia's role in US politics
- 9:15 Soprano and scientist Cassandra Extavour
- 9:40 Eli Kent
- 10:10 Nick Bollinger on his memoir 'Goneville'
- 11:07 Bruce Wills
- 11:45 Kate's Klassic
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 16 December 2016
Saturday, 10 December 2016
- 8:12 Johan Norberg on positivity and progress
- 9:10 Stephen Burt on poetry
- 10:08 Robin Ince: 'Part of my job is to say, look, I’m an idiot'
- 11:10 William Grill
- 11:30 Linda Tyler
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 3 December
Saturday, 3 December 2016
- 8:12 Erin Joyce
- 8:25 Olivier Weber
- 9:06 Simon Poole
- 9:30 Kevin Furlong
- 10:05 Valerie Steele: 'Fashion is not just clothes'
- 11:05 Karyn Hay: 'You’ve got to take it to the limit'
- 11:45 Gregory O'Brien
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 3 December
Saturday, 26 November 2016
- 8:11 Richard Beasley
- 8:45 Paul Fitzgerald
- 9:00 Geoff Marsland: the life of a coffee baron
- 10:11 James Gleick: 'Time travel is what makes us human'
- 10:40 James Jameson
- 11:05 Rochelle Constantine
- 11:25 Lilly and Leon Mackie's Cardboard Box Office
- 11:45 Kate Camp - Kate's Klassics
- 11:59 Listener Feeback for 26 November
Saturday, 19 November 2016
- 8:12 Campbell McLachlan
- 8:42 Ben Dowdle
- 9:10 Imagination Lego - How the internet cultivates creativity
- 9:44 Art Crimes with Arthur Tompkins
- 10:07 Alan Bird
- 10:40 Roger Walker
- 11:05 David Long
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 19 November 2016
Saturday, 12 November 2016
- 8:15 Lamia Imam on Trump: 'It does amount to whitelash'
- 8:35 Dick Allen, former US National Security Advisor
- 9:10 'I think religion has been stuck in the pelvic zone'
- 9:45 Roses for Ranui House
- 10:07 Tame Iti: artist and activist
- 11:07 Writer Adam Dudding on his father Robin
- 11:40 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 12 November 2016
Saturday, 5 November 2016
- 8:12 Writer Daisy Goodwin
- 8:45 Peter Black
- 9:08 Keggie Carew journeys into "Dadland"
- 9:47 Michael Wilkinson: UK politics
- 10:07 'All they wanted to do was fight'
- 11:07 Douglas Lloyd Jenkins: Beach Life
- 11:44 Emily Writes is "tired but trying"
- 11:55 Listener Feedback to Saturday 5 November 2016
Saturday, 29 October 2016
Birgitta Jónsdóttir of the Icelandic Pirate Party, Indridi Indridason on Iceland politics, Greg Hopkinson and Sally Lewis on meditation in a Mexican prison, Rufus Wainwright on opera, show tunes and family, The Week in Shakespeare with David Lawrence, Andrew Sharp on Samuel Marsden, Kim Evans on good food on Fridays, Barbara Anderson on MothNet, Gregory O’Brien on the poetry of Diana Bridge and Helen Jacobs.
Full episodeSaturday, 22 October 2016
Ian Gawler on combating cancer, Nicky Dunne on Heywood Hill’s books-for-life raffle, Alison McCulloch on post-natal depression, Bill Bailey on travel, science and Brexit, Mary Kisler on serendipitous art travel in Europe, Anna Coddington on music, martial arts and linguistics, Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris on their new Annual.
Full episodeSaturday, 15 October 2016
Julian Milford on lawyering and chamber music, Martin Luff and Danny Squires on Wikihouses, Ben Schrader on New Zealand’s city history, Mary Daish on kitchens, Alan Light on Nina Simone, Jeavons Baillie on artistic conservation, Kate Camp on Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
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