All episodes
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Ibrahim Elmetri on Libya, Geraldine Brooks on reporting and imagining, Cornel de Ronde on finding the Pink and White Terraces, Platon on photographing the powerful , Playing Favourites with Doug Jerebine, Martin Nowak on co-operation, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins on NZ fashion history.
Full episodeSaturday, 4 June 2011
Harvey Wasserman on nuclear power, Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones on Operation 8, National Librarian Bill Macnaught, Alan Broadbent on musical directing, Playing Favourites with Chris Hart of Real Groovy, Robert McLeod on art and commerce, Greg O’Brien on the Kermadecs.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 May 2011
Bryan Caplan on serenity parenting, Michael Morrissey on manic depression, James Gleick on information, Language with Jen Hay: motherese, Playing Favourites with poet Kate Camp, Dale Williams on youth in Otorohanga, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 21 May 2011
Susan Freinkel on plastics, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, Michael Morpurgo on War Horse, Tasmin Little on the naked violin project, Playing Favourites with surfing physicist filmmaker Clive Neeson, Cameron Sinclair on optimistic architecture and a vision for Christchurch, philosopher A. C. Grayling on his secular bible.
Full episodeSaturday, 14 May 2011
James Hansen on climate science, Barbara Strauch on brains, Mary Kisler and Sarah Hillary on art conservation, Playing Favourites with performance poet Rives, A. A. Gill on travel and food, Margo Lanagan on fantasy writing.
Full episodeSaturday, 7 May 2011
Tariq Ali on Pakistan, Atka Reid and Hana Schofield on leaving Sarajevo, Fred Allendorf on evolution and the future, saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins, Playing Trombones with BonaNZa, David Mitchell on writing and stammering, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman on kamikazes and quakes.
Full episodeSaturday, 30 April 2011
Harriet Lamb on fair trade, Mandrika Rupa on the caste system, Kevin Parker on saddleback dialects, Playing (Country) Favourites with John Newton, Dane Mitchell on his art of tangible intangibles, rugby with Spiro Zavos
Full episodeSaturday, 23 April 2011
James McPherson on the American Civil War, Greg Cross on the Pure Blacks cycling team, Taggart Seigel on bees, Irish musician Mary Coughlan, Herman Knipperberg on serial killer Charles Sobhraj, poetry with Airini Beautrais
Full episodeSaturday, 16 April 2011
Richard Denniss on shopping and waste, James Frey: reality and fantasy, Christchurch art with Mary Kisler, Playing Favourites with evolutionary geneticist Paul Rainey, antiquarian bookseller Kay Craddock, three new children’s books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 9 April 2011
Guest host Finlay Macdonald talks with Pepe Escobar on the great Arab revolt, Frances Walsh on housewife history, Anglican Archdeacon Hone Kaa, fashion designer Liz Mitchell, Playing Favourites with musician and writer Ruth Carr, Tom Bower on Bernie Ecclestone and Formula One, cartoonist and illustrator Chris Slane.
Full episodeSaturday, 2 April 2011
Erik Conway on the merchants of doubt, Layton Duncan on software from Christchurch, Cliff Abraham on the brain and Alzheimer’s, Cassandra Treadwell on starting a school in Kenya, Playing Favourites with Will Annie Crummer, James Samuel on Transition Towns for a low-energy future, Maria Tatar on fairytales.
Full episodeSaturday, 26 March 2011
Siddharta Mukherjee on his biography of cancer, film director Alex Gibney on sex and politics, plant pathologist Pamela Ronald on genes, seeds, weeds, Art with Mary Kisler: White Night at the Auckland Festival, Playing Favorites with writer David Vann, Jean Auel on her prehistorical romances, Kate De Goldi with three new children’s books.
Full episodeSaturday, 19 March 2011
Tariq Ali on the US, Islam and China, John McBeth on 40 years’ reporting in Asia, architecty Ric LaPlastrier on Futuna, Tim Robbins on music, movies and politics, Simon Sebag Montefiore on Jerusalem, poetry with Johanna Emeney.
Full episodeSaturday, 12 March 2011
Kohei Murayama on the Japan earthquake and tsunami, Kevin Kamps on the Fukushima atomic power plant, Dianne Alpers on leaving Libya, Alan Merry on anaesthesia and pain, Helen LaKelly Hunt on women, money and philanthropy, Peter Young on the Ross Sea, Playing Favourites with sculptor Michael Parekowhai, Conor Lovett on Samuel Beckett , Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Christchurch books.
Full episodeSaturday, 5 March 2011
Atul Gawande on checklists and hospitals, Heinz Wolff on caring for the elderly, Monsignor Charles Drennan on the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, tribal punk folk-core group Fear is the Enemy, dancer and choreographer Sarah-Jayne Howard.
Full episodeSaturday, 26 February 2011
Hamish Campbell on earthquake geology, Fiona Parks Rangiora Quake Express, Win Clark on earthquake engineering, Sven Baker on design and plumbing recovery, Nat Torkington on the Christchurch Recovery Map, Craig Nevill-Manning on Google Person Finder, Roger Dennis on innovation and strategy, Lou Sanson of Antarctica New Zealand, Laurie Johnson on disaster reconstruction, David Haywood and Jen Hay on children and relocation, Simon Morton on helping out in Sumner.
Full episodeSaturday, 19 February 2011
Richard Hurt on big tobacco and nicotine dependence, James Stewart on arms vendors, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi on file-sharing and micropayments, Art with Mary Kisler: exhibitions at the Sarjeant Gallery, Playing Favourites with actor/writer Lennie James, Augustina Driessen on child attachment, Merlin Mann on fear and technology.
Full episodeSaturday, 12 February 2011
Pratap Chatterjee on Egypt and the USA, Michael Hunter on Robert Boyle and seventeenth century science, Sir Richard Friend on commercialising chemistry, Cassandra Treadwell on her school in Kenya, Playing Favourites with musician Annabel Alpers, David McCandless on making information beautiful, Poetry with Bill Manhire.
Full episodeSaturday, 5 February 2011
Luke Harding on Wikileaks and Julian Assange, James Fallows on the future of coal, Nottebohm on birdsong and brains, Ant Sang on graphic novels and bro’Town, Playing Favourites with countertenor Tobias Cole, Ray Hilborn on fish stocks, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Rosemary Sutcliff.
Full episodeSaturday, 29 January 2011
Seif Da’Na on Middle East unrest, British foreign secretary William Hague, Professor Innes Asher on asthma and allergies, Alison Balance on saving the kakapo, Playing Favourites with Danny and Florence Mulheron, Karli Thomas on over-fishing, Donald Sturrock on Roald Dahl.
Full episodeSaturday, 18 December 2010
Marcus Chown on science in 2010, James Williamson of the Stooges, Kate Parker of Red leap Theatre, Kate Camp on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Playing Favourites with Professor Sir Paul Callaghan, members of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra: Vesa-Matti Leppanen, David Bremner, Robert Ibell, Victoria Jones , Bridget Douglas, Leonard Sakofsky.
Full episodeSaturday, 11 December 2010
James E Young on memory, Pat White on longing, Sean Egan on Coronation Street, Language with Jen Hay, Playing Favourites with Makerita Urale, Keith Bulfin on going undercover in Mexico, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 4 December 2010
Ton-Nu-Thi Ninh on Vietnam, Edmund Weiner on the online OED, cafe pioneer Suzy van der Kwast, Hamish Spencer on cousin marriage, Don Letts on punk, reggae and culture, Debra Granik on movies and meth, architect Fritz Eisenhofer on his dome home.
Full episodeSaturday, 27 November 2010
Caldwell Esselstyn on heart disease and a plant-based diet, Andrew Coy on magnetic research, Mary Kisler on the art of Ron Mueck, Playing Favourites with hospice doctor Ian Gwynne-Robson, Dan Nocera on hydrogen power, tenor star Will Martin
Full episodeSaturday, 20 November 2010
Joel Salatin on his influential farming methods, former Australian PM John Howard, Playing Favourites with artist, designer and musican Fane Flaws, actor and director Ian Mune, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Allen Say
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