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Saturday, 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.

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Saturday, 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.

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Saturday, 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.

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Saturday, 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

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Saturday, 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.

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Saturday, 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

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Saturday, 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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Saturday, 13 November 2010

Emma Larkin on Burma, John Battle on prisons, faith and the Big Society, historian Redmer Yska on NZ Truth, Rutherford Medal winner and molecular biologist Warren Tate, Robin Maconie on Stockhausen and music, Julie Anne Genter on parking management, Kristine Tompkins on Patagonia and conservation, Michael Bennett on his Matariki movie and marathons

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Saturday, 6 November 2010

Steve Price on rugby league, Alan Webber on better business, Fast Company and Portland, Reva Singh on wine in India, Playing Favourites with longtime Fair Go host Kevin Milne, Alex Monteith on surf, planes and art, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Tim Bowler

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Saturday, 30 October 2010

Andrew Fraser on cocaine, cops and corruption, Grant Morris on California’s Proposition 19, Tim Winter, Britain's most influential Muslim, Kate Camp on Candide by Voltaire, Playing Favourites with photographer Peter Quinn, David Suzuki on humanity’s legacy and a sustainable future

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Saturday, 23 October 2010

Stephen Fookes on the wool renaissance, Peter Donelan on Benoit Mandelbrot, Mary Kisler on angels and aristocrats, Tanja Jade on farewelling Misery, Dudley Benson on music of the birds, Janet Frame-Cutmore on family relations, Patrick Evans on gifted writer, Ruth Pretty on hospitality in Shanghai.

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Saturday, 16 October 2010

Guest host Finlay Macdonald with Doug Saunders on arrival cities, Anton Garland on designing cars, Tim Flannery on arguing for hope, Language with Jen Hay: vowels, Playing Favourites with photographer Jane Ussher, Gordon Glass on global parliament, Geoff Blackwell on Nelson Mandela, Jack Yan on politics, fashion and the Internet

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Saturday, 9 October 2010

Bhupendra Chaubey on India, Kim King on weasels, stoats and ferrets, Joy Cowley on writing for children, musician Gin Wigmore, Playing Favourites with Chris Bourke, Karen Dawn on animal advocacy, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: four new picture books.

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Saturday, 2 October 2010

Richard Woolf on unions in Europe, Cordelia Fine on gender and discrimination, Jesse Conklin on godwits, Kate’s Klassic: The Invisible Man, Playing Favourites with Mike Nock and Norman Meehan, Dean Poole on design, John Saker on pinot noir

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Saturday, 25 September 2010

David Lublin on the US tea party movement, Farouk al-Kasim on oil and Norway, Peter Goldie on acquired tastes, Mary Kisler on children in Dutch art, Playing Favourites with Charley Gray, Dwight Roden on New York dance, food with Annabel Langbein, fashion with Laurie Foon

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Saturday, 18 September 2010

Baroness Onora O’Neill on trust, Ian Barber on first contact and food, Language with Jen Hay: vowels in pop music, Dickie Landry on sax, art and swamp pop , Sister Sheila O’Toole on Vietnam, Lucas Remmerswaal on writing Warren Buffet for kids, Carolann Murray on self-sufficiency.

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Saturday, 11 September 2010

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, YouTube tutor Sal Khan, former Governor General and Auckland mayor Dame Cath Tizard, film director David Michod, TrinityRoots (Warren Maxwell, Rio Hunuki-Hemopo and Riki Gooch), Kate De Goldi on the Canterbury quake, Sister Sheila O’Toole on Vietnam, Janice Marriott and Virginia Pawsey on kitchens and conversations.

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Saturday, 4 September 2010

Kim Hill and Mary Wilson with coverage of the Canterbury earthquake 8-10am (see Morning Report page), then Richard J. Aldrich on spies and surveillance, Barbara Trapido on sex, Stravinsky and South Africa, Kate’s Klassic: The Woman in White, Judith Binney on Tuhoe and the Uruweras.

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Saturday, 28 August 2010

Val McDermid on crime writing and journalism, Celia Lashlie on mothers and agencies, Don Eigler on nanotechnology and moving atoms, Jennifer Higdon on modern composition, restaurateur Fernando Peire of The Ivy, and Diana Noonan on gardening for children.

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Saturday, 21 August 2010

Richard Wiseman on self-help science, Andrew Dubber in Finland, Christopher Vogler on myth and movies, Matt Burgess on prediction markets, Playing Favourites with opera and theatre director Tim Albery, Jessica Rudd on her chicklit novel and father Kevin, Steven Talley on filming China’s terracotta warriors.

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Saturday, 14 August 2010

Fatima Bhutto on Pakistan, Rob McBrearty on sponges and cancer, Art with Mary Kisler: local revolutionaries, Playing Favourites with Rowan Simpson, Peter Whiteford on John Mulgan, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Puffin books

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Saturday, 7 August 2010

Simon Singh on chiropractors and libel, Nesrine Malik on wearing the burqa, Cindy Gallop on micro-actions, Kate’s Klassic: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Playing Favourites with Tracey Collins, Harold Fromm on veganism, Scott Bregmen on working with disability.

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Saturday, 31 July 2010

Justice Edwin Cameron on AIDS and South Africa, Joe Randazzo of The Onion, Kathryn Schulz on wrongology, Robyn Bargh on publishing Te Reo, Playing Favourites with Donna Dean, Lydia Wevers on Victorian farm fiction, Kathy Marks on multiculturalism in Bennelong.

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Saturday, 24 July 2010

Andy Dennis on Iceland, Anthony Gottlieb on voting systems, David Healy on drugs and depression, Language with Jen Hay: intensifiers, Playing Favourites with Mark Simos, Erica Miller channelling Elvis, Elizabeth Frood on ancient Egypt.

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Saturday, 17 July 2010

Dan McIlrea on friction, elasticity and slinky solutions, Kinky Friedman on life in Texas, James Brabazon on mercenaries in Africa, Art with Mary Kisler: European masters, Playing Favourites with musician David Kilgour, Robyn Hughes on teaching art in prison, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Gary D. Schmidt.

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