All episodes
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
Full episodeSaturday, 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
Full episodeSaturday, 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
Full episodeSaturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 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
Full episodeSaturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 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
Full episodeSaturday, 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
Full episodeSaturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 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
Full episodeSaturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 July 2010
Grant Morris on the oil spill, Briar March on movie making and rising oceans, Andrew Greensmith on plastic surgery, Kate’s Klassic: To Kill a Mockingbird, Playing Favourites with designer Philip Fierlinger, novelist Jane Smiley, molecular biologist Tom McFadden on rapping science.
Full episodeSaturday, 3 July 2010
Daniel Ellsberg on the Pentagon Papers, Arturo Arias on Guatemala, Julie Woods on blind dining, Father Michael Mahoney on mountaineering and Brazil, Bobby Crush on Liberace, Kate de Goldi on Virginia Hamilton.
Full episodeSaturday, 26 June 2010
Gillian Armstrong on the lives of three Australian women, Gillian Turner on Earth's magnetism, Pat Schwass and Anthony Lorigan on breaking cycles of drugs and violence, Lucy Walker on her movies about nuclear weapons and scavenger art, Playing Favourites with comedian Bill Bailey, Katherine Mowbray on cheesemaking, John Black on acupuncture.
Full episodeSaturday, 19 June 2010
Tim de Lisle on how sport got so big, Tanemahuta Gray on Matariki dance festival, Peter Maass on oil, Art with Mary Kisler: Andrew McLeod and Roger Mortimer, Playing Favourites with musician Greg Fleming, Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Susan Price
Full episodeSaturday, 12 June 2010
Alex Bellos on numbers football, Roz Savage on rowing the Pacific, Ted Kaptchuk on the placebo effect, Language with Jen Hay, Wanda Jackson the Queen of Rock-a-billy, New York chef and writer Anthony Bourdain, artist Fiona Jack on memorial halls.
Full episodeSaturday, 5 June 2010
Neil MacKay on dyslexia and autism, Sophie Howard on transmuting sludge, Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan and The Longest Day, choreologist Tatiana Novaes Coelho, Playing Favourites with Maryrose Crook, Sylvie Haisman on the wreck of the Strathmore, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: three recent books.
Full episodeSaturday, 29 May 2010
Hamish Keith in New Orleans, Susan Horwitz on developing cancer drugs, Ian McKellen on Waiting for Godot, Kate’s Klassic: Around the World in 80 Days, Playing Favourites with children's writer William Taylor, psychiatrist and poet Salman Akhtar.
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