All episodes
Saturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 5 December 2009
Kamila Shamsie on Pakistan, Simon Kuper on soccernomics and the 2010 World Cup, Jenny Uglow on Charles II and the Restoration, Maths with Gaven Martin: counting, singer/songwriters Carole King and James Taylor, Colin Gibson on hymns.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 November 2009
Roger Donaldson on Burt Munro, Steve Jones on chasmology (yawning), Judith Binney on 100 years of Tuhoe, Language with Jen Hay, Playing Favourites with Lawrence Arabia, Adrian Raeside on his grandfather and the Antarctic, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: new books.
Full episodeSaturday, 21 November 2009
Tom Feiling on cocaine and Colombia, Rod Carr on revenue generation in Canterbury, Richard Gage on the architecture of 9/11, Kate Camp’s Klassic: Anna Karenina, Jarvis Cocker on life during and after Pulp, David Burton on cooking and kina, Peter Hunter on body modelling and the Rutherford Medal.
Full episodeSaturday, 14 November 2009
Simon Schama on the past, present, future of the USA, Nomi Prins on the backroom bailouts on Wall Street, Paul Trotman on the donation and dissection of cadavers, Matthew Weiner on the creation and production of Mad Men, Hugh Fletcher on Fletcher Challenge and a century of building, Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Alison Uttley.
Full episodeSaturday, 7 November 2009
Greg Browne on dinosaur footprints, Garth Smith on luo han, Robert P. Kirshner on the accelerating universe, Art with Mary Kisler: five gifted works, Playing Favourites with artist and musician Reg Mombassa, Walter Mischel on the marshmallow test, Jeremy Pope on travel and transparency.
Full episodeSaturday, 31 October 2009
Daniel Knorr on incarceration and art, Tino Tabak on cycling and cheating, John Perriam on Bendigo Station and Shrek the sheep, Maths with Gaven Martin: differential equations, Ruth Reichl on her mother and Gourmet magazine, Kirk Torrance on his play Flintlock Musket and Outrageous Fortune, Sebastian Sylwan on making 3D movies, Matt Elliot on Billy T James.
Full episodeSaturday, 24 October 2009
Phillip Darnton on cycling in the UK, Isaac Mao on blogging, sharism and censorship in China, Mark Harris on ACTA, counterfeiting and trade, Language with Jen Hay: T and L, Playing Favourites with Sue Paterson, executive director of the New Zealand International Arts Festival, writer Peter Temple on truth and consequences, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: three new books.
Full episodeSaturday, 17 October 2009
Alan Walker on active ageing, John Leslie on the fall of the Berlin Wall, David Hare on political staging, Playing Favourites with Jan Hellriegel, Paul Barry on James Packer.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 October 2009
Bridget Kendall on Russia and the Forum, Matt Latimer on writing speeches for George W. Bush, Stephen Page on Faber and Faber, Kate Camp on Dante’s Inferno, Playing Favourites with American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tim O’Brien, Mike Whittaker on the Scary Washing Machine honeymoon in Samoa, Dick Frizzell on his expressionist pop art.
Full episodeSaturday, 3 October 2009
Mark Goodwin on saving bees, Gaven Martin on pure mathematics, Richard Stallman on digital freedoms, Art with Mark Amery: public galleries and Maori artists, Playing Favourites with Ian Chapman aka Dr Glam, Food with Peter Gordon, Marti Friedlander on photographing New Zealand.
Full episodeSaturday, 26 September 2009
Tobias Harris on the new Japanese government, Muriel Watt on solar power, writer Nick Hornby on movies, music and autism, Playing Favourites with blind runner Rob Matthews, Food with Annabelle Langbein, Christine Fernyhough on high country life.
Full episodeSaturday, 19 September 2009
Suzanne Gordon on changing perceptions of nursing, Marko Cunningham on rescuing the tsunami dead in Bangkok, James Belich on the settler revolution and rise of the Angloworld, Playing Favourites with Jonathan Owen of Svengali, Peter Proctor on biodynamic faming in India and New Zealand, Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: new picture books.
Full episodeSaturday, 12 September 2009
Jenny Weston on the Mongol Derby, Michael Cathcart on Australia and water, Sir Martin Evans on stem cells and gene therapy, Jen Hay on changing vowel sounds, Playing Favourites with dancer Richard Chen See, Chris Rojek on celebrity culture, Gardening with Sally Cameron
Full episodeSaturday, 5 September 2009
Angela Kearney on child safety and trafficking, Allan Pease on men, sex, women and love, Dana Beal on ibogaine and addiction, Leonhard Emmerling on the Venice Biennale, Playing Favourites with music and travel writer Graham Reid, Gary Taylor on polyamory, Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: Charles Keeping.
Full episodeSaturday, 29 August 2009
Tim O’Brien on US health care, Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer, author Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping, Gilead, Home), Kate Camp on An Angel at My Table, Meredith Kirton on edible gardens, conservationist Amy Whitehead on saving the whio, playwright Jo Randerson on death.
Full episodeSaturday, 22 August 2009
David Menashri on Iran, Rod Dunbar of the Maurice Wilkins Centre on cancer and vaccines, Emory Douglas on the Black Panthers and graphic design, Melanie Johnston-Hollit on the bid for the Square Kilometre Array, Playing Favourites with musicians Liam Finn and Eliza Jane Barnes, Johnston on her Ladies a Plate books, Nancy Brunning on The Strength of Water.
Full episodeSaturday, 15 August 2009
Andy Dennis from the East Fjords of Iceland, Kate Hunter on the history of hunting in New Zealand, Charlotte Paul on the unfortunate experiment at National Women's Hospital, Bob Harvey on mayors for peace, Bill Culbert on sculpting with light, Paul Mercurio on judging beer and dance, Franny Armstrong on her film about climate change, The Age of Stupid.
Full episodeSaturday, 8 August 2009
Henry Porter on civil liberties, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress on blogging, Linda Bryder on the history of the ‘unfortunate experiment’, Mark Amery on arts festivals, music master Pinchas Zukerman, J. Anderson Little on changing the court system, Children's Books with Kate De Goldi: John Burningham.
Full episodeSaturday, 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.
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