All episodes
Saturday, 1 August 2009
Jim Stanford on Canadian car economics, David Hill on returning the Parthenon Marbles, Garth MacIntyre on travelling up the Nile, Dempsey Woodley on train commuting, Playing Favourites with Southland singer/songwriter Helen Henderson, Eric Anderson on space tourism, Brad Knewstubb on Apollo 13.
Full episodeSaturday, 25 July 2009
Luke Harding on the murder of Natalia Estemirova, Christopher Reid on Ted Hughes and Martian poetry, Neil White on his incarceration in a leper colony, Jo Randerson on advertising and stuff, actor and singer Mandy Patinkin, singer-songwriter John Hanlon, chef Laura Faire on crockpots, Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Vera Bill Cleaver.
Full episodeSaturday, 18 July 2009
George Lakey on Norway and socialism, photographer Peter Peryer, Fred Kaplan on 1959, Kate Camp on Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, Playing Favourites with George Henderson of the Puddle, Ursula Le Guin on Virgil, fantasy and feminism, Glen Levy on stunts and ninjas.
Full episodeSaturday, 11 July 2009
Guest host Gordon Harcourt, with UK MP Austin Mitchell on the expenses scandal, Chris Amon on Formula One racing, David Engwicht on traffic calming, Mary Kisler on Salvador Dali, Colwyn Trevarthen on music and children, Graeme Tuckett on Barry Barclay, Emily Perkins on London and art, Melinda Szymanik on her were-nana book.
Full episodeSaturday, 4 July 2009
Guest host Linda Clark, with Frances Kennedy on Silvio Berluscon, Armando Iannucci on spin doctoring, Scott Horton on torture , Jennifer Sturm on Anna Kavan, Playing Favourites with playwright Gary Henderson, Janene Tomelty on Botox, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Peter Pan
Full episodeSaturday, 27 June 2009
Guest host Ian Fraser, with British journalist Lynn Barber on her education, Neil Strauss on pick-ups and survivalism, Peter Macinnis on evil lawns, John Allen, departing CEO of NZ Post, Michael Hill on surviving tough times, Ian Morden of Cloudy Bay on wine and the law, and national treasure John Clarke.
Full episodeSaturday, 20 June 2009
Warwick Thornton on his film Samson Delilah, Stephen Zunes on Iran, Sean Davison on voluntary euthanasia, Kate’s Klassic is On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Playing Favourites with Mike Whittaker of Scary Washing Machine fame, Janette Murray-Wakelin on marathon running, raw food and cancer, Ilona Rodgers on acting in new play Station to Station.
Full episodeSaturday, 13 June 2009
Edward Peck on Middle East dialogue, Sherman Young on the future of books, Eleanor Catton on her Montana Book Award-nominated debut novel, The Rehearsal, Playing Favourites with violinist and abstract artist Richard Adams, Bruce Connew on photographs, dissent and behaviour, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Richard Peck.
Full episodeSaturday, 6 June 2009
Jamil Anderlini on currency and censorship in China, Ben Goldacre on bad science and lawsuits, Hilary Mantel on Thomas Cromwell, Mark Amery on dealer galleries, Playing Favourites with Jim Wilson of Phantom Billstickers, Colin Tudge on the most complete early primate fossil ever found, Elizabeth Knox on angels and Hollywood.
Full episodeSaturday, 30 May 2009
Geoffrey Miller on the psychology of consumerism, Muhammed Musa on African football sheds, Dorothy Butler on children and books, Justin O’Sullivan on sequencing DNA, Playing Favourites with composer Ross Harris, Art Veno on outlaw motorcycle clubs, Kate De Goldi on historical fiction writer.
Full episodeSaturday, 23 May 2009
Richard Thaler on nudges and libertarian paternalism, Fintan O’Toole on the crash of the Irish economy, Nikolien van Wijk and Dr Anne Meade on learning schemas in early childhood education, Kate’s Klassics: three works by Edgar Allen Poe, Bryn Terfel on his operatic life, Juliette Veber on short films and her documentary about a tough South Auckland school, Amy Dixon on saving the Sumatran orangutan.
Full episodeSaturday, 16 May 2009
Michael Carter on farming, aid and Africa, Hendrick Hertzberg on politics, James Surowiecki on the wisdom of crowds, M.T. Anderson on writing for children, Playing Favourites with Will Sheff of Okkervil River, slam performance poet Sonya Renee, physics professor and poet Iggy McGovern.
Full episodeSaturday, 9 May 2009
Marcus Chown on science and space, Robert Wade on Iceland’s financial meltdown, Andrew Lih on Wikipedia, Mary Kisler on large installation works, Barnaby Weir and Dick Weir on the new Fly My Pretties event, Bronwen Markham on nursing in danger zones, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: historical American fiction by Elizabeth George Speare and Irene Hunt.
Full episodeSaturday, 2 May 2009
Paul Talalay on cancer, broccoli and supplements, Robert Wallace on the NAFTA flu, Maori academic and writer Ranginui Walker, John Newton on James K Baxter, Ngati Hau and the Jerusalem commune, Monica Ali on Brick Lane and In the Kitchen, Robyn Salisbury on sex and relationships.
Full episodeSaturday, 25 April 2009
Scott Horton on torture and accountability, Deborah Challinor on Vietnam veterans, Paul McGeough on Mossad, Khalid Mishal and Hamas, Playing Favourites with Shakespeare scholar Gary Taylor, Alex Hedley and Robin Kay on Maadi Camp in World War 2, Kate's Klassic: Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame).
Full episodeSaturday, 18 April 2009
Amber Marks on the surveillance industry, Jonathan Lyons on Islam and the West, Urmas Paet on Estonia, Colin Bull on a pioneering trip to Antarctica, Playing Favourites with opera singer Kristen Darragh, John L Simpson on his film Men's Group, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: new books by MT Anderson and Mal Peet.
Full episodeSaturday, 11 April 2009
David Bodanis on the Ten Commandments, Canon Paul Oestreicher on peace, Thomas Greco on community currencies, DJ Mu on cricket and music, Playing Favourites with writer Fiona Farrell, Paul Brewer on his time at Te Papa, Jo Randerson on festivals.
Full episodeSaturday, 4 April 2009
John Yemma of the Christian Science Monitor, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge, Joyce Fleming on her life and naturism, Mark Amery on one-day sculpture, Alex Ross on 20th century music, Irish actress Sinead Cusack, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Patricia MacLachlan.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 March 2009
Naomi Allen on women and alcohol, Andy Matheson on biofuel and other energy futures, Dr Frans de Waal on human and primate behaviour, Kate’s Klassic: The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Lady Dusha Bateson on Mrs Charles Darwin's Recipe Book, Anne Thorp on cookery and cancer, Margaret Long on gardens and culture.
Full episodeSaturday, 21 March 2009
Ann Wright on Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza, Gareth Edwards-Jones on food miles, Dunedin-based mountaineer and author Philip Temple, Mary Kisler on artist Yinka Shonibare, film director Terence Davies on Liverpool, Lisa Matisoo-Smith on DNA and Pacific settlement, Geoff Waterhouse on running vehicles on Waste Vegetable Oil, Stuart Devenie on Joseph Hatch and penguins.
Full episodeSaturday, 14 March 2009
Zia Mian on Pakistan, Bob White on climate change and Christianity, Paul Callaghan on New Zealand from wool to Weta, poet Selina Tusitala Marsh, Wayne Lochore on the global financial crisis, British comedian Dawn French, astronomer Robert Jedicke on asteroids.
Full episodeSaturday, 7 March 2009
Matt Frei on Washington D.C., David Park of the Geospatial Research Centre, Jasvinder Sanghera on arranged marriages and honour crimes, installation artist and film maker Isaac Julien, Slumdog Millionaire author Vikas Swarup, Cuban jazz pianist Roberto Fonseca, Dave Brown of Patch Theatre Company, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Paul Fleischman.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 February 2009
Susie Orbach on modified bodies, Jasvinder Sanghera on arranged marriages and honour crimes, Patrick Holford on addiction and nutrition, Playing Favourites with David Haywood, author of My First Stabbing, musician Gudrun Gut on the Berlin underground, Denis Dutton on the art instinct.
Full episodeSaturday, 21 February 2009
Baroness Scotland QC on law, government and the individual, Deborah Peterson Small on prohibition and drug reform, Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic on Serbia, Texas and the Internet, Mark Amery on children and art galleries, Playing Favourites with Andrew Dubber, lecturer on music industries, Reid Ewing on smart urban growth, Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Charlotte Zolotow.
Full episodeSaturday, 14 February 2009
Seth Godin on marketing, quitting and leadership, Mike Morwood on the hobbit-like human species Homo floresiensis, Alan Dixson on the evolution of sexuality in primates, Kate Camp on Rabbit, Run by John Updike, members of the Wellington Batucada drumming troupe and Carnival queen Clo Mudrik, museum director Malcolm Rogers on Monet and the Impressionists, Lama Ole Nydahl on Buddhist life and conscious death.
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