All episodes
Saturday, 9 June 2012
Charlie Skelton on Bilderberg, Clive Bibby on the Tolaga Bay wharf, David Skilling on New Zealand’s place in the world, Filomena Tuivanualevu on youth in Fiji, Playing Favourites with Jane and Wyn Davies, Teju Cole on Nigeria and Twitter, Uwe Kolbe on Berlin and poetry.
Full episodeSaturday, 2 June 2012
Tom Watson MP on Murdoch and Britain, Mike Spratt on grape-a-hol and the wine industry, William Tobin on the Transit of Venus, Thomas Lumley on DNA and biostatistics, Playing Favourites with best first fiction winner Hamish Clayton, Ashraf Sewailam on singing and Egypt, Kate De Goldi on two new children’s novels and an ABC book.
Full episodeSaturday, 26 May 2012
Steve Keen on the economic crisis, Dennis Gordon on the NZ inventory of biodiversity, Dan Neil on electric cars, Playing Favourites with DJ and music historian Bill Brewster, Alan Breslau on the beauty of disfigurement, Eli Kent on his hit play and its NZ tour.
Full episodeSaturday, 19 May 2012
Lawrence Krauss on the plausible universe, Bruce Hicks on student protest in Quebec, Chris Szekely on rāhui and libraries, Art with Mary Kisler: Angelica Garnett, Playing Favourites with Dave Moskovitz, Hilary Mantel on her sequel to Wolf Hall, Kate De Goldi with two new NZ children’s books.
Full episodeSaturday, 12 May 2012
Catherine Fieschi on right wing popularism in Europe, Oliver Jeffers on his art and picture books, Jeffrey Eugenides on marriage and plots, Simon Manchester on potter Len Castle, Playing Favourites with philosopher Thomas Wartenberg, André Cointreau on Le Cordon Bleu, Kath Irvine on planning fruit trees and rootstock.
Full episodeSaturday, 5 May 2012
Ross Ashcroft on renegade economics, Ian Watson on Alan Turing and artificial intelligence, Claire Tomalin on Charles Dickens, Li Chen on Kickstarter and web comics, Playing Favourites with Angela Meyer, Juergen Boos on the Frankfurt Book fair, Mal Peet on his books for young adults.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 April 2012
Chandran Nair on capitalism, consumption and Asia, J. Hampton Atkinson on cannabis research, Marti Anderson on statistics and diving, Playing Favourites with Sam Wills aka The Boy With Tape On His Face, Emily Perkins on writing and her new novel, Tim Blanks on fashion and fragrance.
Full episodeSaturday, 21 April 2012
Michael Hastings on US military commanders, Paul Roy on filming in an Indian hospital, Dr David B. Agus on the end of illness, Playing Favourites with conductor Hamish McKeich, Jim Marchbank on science museums, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 14 April 2012
Keith Yamashita on leadership and design, Mitchell Pham on Vietnam, New Zealand and business, Playing Favourites with Tom Scott of HomeBrew and @Peace, Damon Salesa on Pacific health, Paul Ward on NZ screen moments.
Full episodeSaturday, 7 April 2012
Victoria Davis on medicinal marijuana, Joyce Alberts on false memories, Greg O’Brien on art and poetry in Cork, the Kermadecs and Tonga, Doug Backhouse on resilient comminities, Playing Favourites with Hollie Fulbrook a.k.a. Tiny Ruins, Sonny Tilders on building animatronic dragons, Pietra Brettkelly on her films about Outward Bound and a Maori boy genius
Full episodeSaturday, 31 March 2012
Daniel Hamermesh on how beauty pays, Damon Salesa on solutions for the Pacific, Greg McGee on love and money, Mary Kisler on Vincent van Gogh, Lucinda Williams on songs and relationships, Sally Kabak on grandparents as caregivers, Margo Lanagan on selkies
Full episodeSaturday, 24 March 2012
Nicole Foss on global finance and peak oil, Roddy Doyle on middle aged men and teaching children, Claire Stent on the New Zealand Yearbooks, singer-songwriter Nick Lowe on his career reinvention, Tony Taylor on fishing and time, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 17 March 2012
Will Haughey on toys in Honduras, Catherine Syms on teaching ethics, Richard Davenport-Hines on the lives of those who sailed on the Titanic, Playing Favourites with architect David Mitchell, filmmakers Maramena Roderick & Julian Arahanga on their series about songwriting in prison, Gardening with Kath Irvine: fruit trees.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 March 2012
Gary Mulgrew on fraud and prison, Dr Craig Rodger on solar flares, Leonard Bell on the history of Jews in NZ, Mary Kisler on the Degas to Dali exhibition, Playing Favourites with director and producer Simon Bennett, actor Blythe Duff on beauty and boxing, “slipstream” writer Kelly Link.
Full episodeSaturday, 3 March 2012
Jess Hill on Saudi Arabia, Norman Harris on jogging and other sports, punk poet John Cooper Clarke, Jen Hay on filled pauses, Playing Favourites with musician Gerry Paul, Appalachian writer Ron Rash, Maureen Woodhams on maths and children.
Full episodeSaturday, 25 February 2012
Susan Orlean on Rin Tin Tin, Christopher Kennedy Lawford on drug addiction, Mike Shepherd of the Kneehigh theatre company, Playing Favourites with Daniel Beban, Chris Stringer on the origins of species, Richie Meyer on silent movies
Full episodeSaturday, 18 February 2012
Derek Handley on changing capitalism, Yvonne Shaw on death with dignity, Bella Bathurst on bicycles, Mary Kisler on Renaissance paintings, Playing Favourites with jewellery artist Lisa Walker, choreographer Hofesh Schecter on politics and dance, Kath Irvine on preparing the garden for autumn.
Full episodeSaturday, 11 February 2012
Robert Glennon on water, novelist Alan Hollinghurst, Playing Favourites with engineer Bob Norman, Sam Hunt and Dick Frizzell on words and pictures, Patrick and Patsy McGrath on Bali Aid.
Full episodeSaturday, 4 February 2012
Wael Ghonim on revolution in Egypt, Fredrik Heffermehl on the Nobel Peace Prize, Anthony McCarten on absent heroes, Richie Meyer on silent movies, Playing Favourites with Megan Salole, Atelier Ted Noten on jewellery, Kate de Goldi on the New York Review Children's Collection.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 January 2012
Kate Camp in Berlin,, Marcus Chown on tweeting the universe, Dr Sharad Paul on skin cancer and books, Playing Favourites with translator John Jamieson, Pacific artist Michel Tuffery.
Full episodeSaturday, 21 January 2012
Suzy van de Kwast on early cafe culture, John Waters on shock value, Playing Trombones with BonaNZa
Full episodeSaturday, 14 January 2012
Rob Hamill on his brother's murder, John Kendrick on birds, Playing Favourites with Mary-Annette Hay
Full episodeSaturday, 7 January 2012
Atul Gawande on medicine and the checklist, painter Robert McLeod, taxi driver David Ifill, Playing Favourites with Will and Annie Crummer.
Full episodeSaturday, 31 December 2011
Platon on photographing the powerful, Dr Caldwell Esselstyn on a plant-based diet, Playing Favourites with Joyce Fleming
Full episodeSaturday, 24 December 2011
Journalist and writer Christopher Hitchens, nightlife pioneer Carmen, saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins, Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch discuss the year in books, Joe Schwarcz: on chemistry, food, sex and ageing.
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