All episodes
Saturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 22 May 2010
Paul Offit on vaccination, Tom Henderson on shelterboxes, Christopher Hitchens on his memoir, Jeff Apter on the brothers Finn, Sarah Adams on baking and chocolate, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 15 May 2010
Adrian Wooldridge on economics, faith and globalisation, Julien Smith on social marketing, Thomas Keneally on Australia, Mary Kisler on artist Richard Bell, Charlie Higson on young Bond, zombies and the Fast Show, John Carey on William Golding, Rick Gekoski on rare books and his bibliomemoir.
Full episodeSaturday, 8 May 2010
John Freeman of Granta on email, Julian Glover on the UK election, photographer Fiona Pardington, Language with Jen Hay, Playing Favourites with Rhian Sheehan, John Kay on obliquity, Philip Pullman on Jesus and Christ.
Full episodeSaturday, 1 May 2010
Antony Loewenstein on Israel and blogging, Apache pilot Charlotte Madison, Wil Anderson on advertising, Playing Favourites with Helen Medlyn, Robert Oliver on Pacific cooking, Jeffrey Mogil on pain.
Full episodeSaturday, 24 April 2010
Mark Urban on the SAS in Iraq, Bob Rigg on nuclear disarmament, Sheena Iyengar on choice, Kate Camp on Eugene Onegin, Christine Vachon on indie filmmaking, Mark Seabrook-Davison on conserving biodiversity, Julian Clary on camping out, Ashley Ekins on The ANZAC Book.
Full episodeSaturday, 17 April 2010
Kitty Kelley on Oprah Winfrey, Natasha Walter on sexism and feminism, controversial comedian Tommy Tiernan, Playing Favourites with Káren Hunter, Irish writer Colm Tóibín, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: three new books.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 April 2010
Guest host Finlay MacDonald. Guests: Alexander Cockburn on Obama and the US , Jonathan Moses on war crimes, Ray Avery: medical solutions for the developing world, Language with Jen Hay, Playing Favourites with music documentary maker Stephanie Bennett, Neil Cross on writing about criminals and spies, Barry Thomas on films and alcohol.
Full episodeSaturday, 3 April 2010
Bryan Bruce on who killed Jesus, Norbert Hoeller on biomimicry, Barbara Ehrenreich on the cult of cheerfulness, Art with Mary Kisler: triennial risk-taking, Playing Favourites with jeweller Paterson Riley, Angela Lassig on contemporary NZ fashion designers, Bill Barton on maths education and language
Full episodeSaturday, 27 March 2010
Martin Lord Rees on science and society, Lloyd Jones on a library for Bougainville, Dr Dee Boersma on penguins and their survival. Kate Camp on Virgil’s Aeneid, Dr John on music and New Orleans, Dame Malvina Major on a life in song, CK Stead on his big short story win, Bee Dawson on the history of gardening in NZ.
Full episodeSaturday, 20 March 2010
Guest host Mark Cubey. Guests: Daryl Copeland on guerilla diplomacy, Peter Sutton on Australia's aboriginal legacy, Chris Chitty on inventing and engineering, Bobo Pani on dancing and Gershwin, Playing Favourites with drummer and A man Chris Parry. singer Lyle Lovett on Texas music, Frisky and Mannish on their subversive pop school show, Hadyn Green on sport and Twitter.
Full episodeSaturday, 13 March 2010
Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, fashion designer Zandra Rhodes, Bob Buckley on superconductivity, Catherine Healey on debating prostitution, author Neil Gaiman, musician Amanda Palmer,Language with Jen Hay: ordering names.
Full episodeSaturday, 6 March 2010
Richard Blaikie on seeing small, Peter Hallward on Haiti, Sir Christopher Frayling on the arts and government and the spaghetti western, Daniel Fallshaw on slavery in North Africa, Playing Favourites with Don McGlashan, Geoff Dyer on creative non-fiction, Elaine Dyer on Children’s Day.
Full episodeSaturday, 27 February 2010
Ken Auletta on Google, Jack Heinemann on genetic modification and food, John van Maanen on how communities work, filmmaker Barbara Sumner Burstyn on a family’s life, musician Dean Wareham on playing to Warhol’s screen tests, Margo Lanagan on her dark fiction for young readers.
Full episodeSaturday, 20 February 2010
Adrian Raeside on the Winter Olympics, Dr Peter Gill on forensic DNA, James Crampton on fossil hunting in NZ, Kate’s Klassic: Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger, Playing Favourites with playwright Hone Kouka, Ian Dunbar on dog training, Art with Mary Kisler: interpreting ballet.
Full episodeSaturday, 13 February 2010
Sefton Eruera Buchler Darby on extractive transparency, Peter Brook on theatre and tolerance, Robert Connolly on Balibo, Amanda Wright on Splore, Playing (NZ) Favourites with Nick Bollinger, futurist Mark Pesce, Maths with Gaven Martin: fractals
Full episodeSaturday, 6 February 2010
Hector Busby on building and restoring waka, waka captain Joe Conrad, history student Sam Kaelin, Jeanette King on te reo’s influence on NZ pronunciation, local hero Sam Chapman, Keith Anderson and Chris Lawrence from the NZ Navy Band, Liz Marsden on the tino rangatiratanga flag, Michael Pannett on policing Waitangi, Daniel Morrison on singing anthems, Pita Paraone:of the Waitangi National Trust.
Full episodeSaturday, 30 January 2010
Dr Nina Fedoroff on genes and food, musician Lucien Johnson on Haiti, Philip Hoare on whales, Playing Favourites with Scottish singer Eddi Reader, Fariba Hachtroudi on Iran, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Christchurch library treasures.
Full episodeSaturday, 23 January 2010
Sherman Young on the future of the book (from 2009), Joyce Fleming on her life and naturism (from 2009), Sister Loyola Galvin on her life and gardening (from 2008).
Full episodeSaturday, 16 January 2010
Matthew Weiner, creator of Mad Men, playwright David Hare, artist Karl Maughan
Full episodeSaturday, 9 January 2010
Jill Bolte Talor on her stroke (from 2008), and Chris Knox plays favourites (from 2006).
Full episodeSaturday, 2 January 2010
Repeats of interviews with artist Bill Culbert, and Barnaby Weir and Dick Weir on the Fly My Pretties project.
Full episodeSaturday, 19 December 2009
Marcus Chown on light, the universe and everything, scientist Paul Callaghan, writer David Vann on boats and suicide, Art with Mary Kisler: restoration, dub musician Tom Bailey, Greg Broadmore on illustrations, guns and District 9, members of the Jubilation Choir, Kate De Goldi on what makes a great children’s book.
Full episodeSaturday, 12 December 2009
Anne C. Heller on Ayn Rand, Daniel Kruger on sex and shopping, Richard Faull on brain research, Kate’s Klassic: The Big Sleep, Martin Perna on Fela Kuti, Maths with Gaven Martin: infinity, Valerie Browning on the Afar of Ethiopia.
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