All episodes
Saturday, 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.
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.
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