All episodes
Saturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 7 February 2009
George Andrews on the life of Allan Wilson, Alison Ballance on Rangi the kakapo, Jim Scott in Sri Lanka, Harry Kroto on nanotechnology, Playing Favourites with teacher, flamenco player and author Haggis Hague, typographer Joseph Churchward, Victoria Davis on the World Naked Bike Ride.
Full episodeSaturday, 31 January 2009
Michael Stuermer on Vladimir Putin and Russia, Hilary Pearse revisits Canada's constitution. Jane McGonigal on large-scale alternate reality games, Anna Gsell on dissecting a kakapo brain, David Byrne of Talking Heads, English soul singer Alice Russell, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: four books by Madeline L'Engle.
Full episodeSaturday, 24 January 2009
Summer selection repeat interviews with philosopher John Gray, and Kate De Goldi on the authors and illustrators influenced by children's book editor Ursula Nordstrom.
Full episodeSaturday, 17 January 2009
Summer selection repeat interviews with Alastair Thompson of Scoop Media, Ron Hanson of White Fungus, and Dr Graeme Downes of The Verlaines.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 January 2009
Summer selection repeat interviews with Jim Lindner on preserving media, poet Christian Bok, Chris Brickell on NZ's gay male history and Mani Mitchell on intersex life.
Full episodeSaturday, 3 January 2009
Summer selection repeat interviews with Detroit techno musician Mike Banks, and Irish music mainstay Donal Lunny, taongo puoro master Richard Nunns, singer Iarla O'Lionaird and poet Glenn Colquhoun from the Green Fire Islands show.
Full episodeSaturday, 27 December 2008
Summer selection repeat interviews with author J.J. Joseph and Celai Lashlie on male violence, and comedian Lenny Henry.
Full episodeSaturday, 20 December 2008
Niall Ferguson on the finance and history, Anton van Helden on colossal squid, cetaceans and magic, Michael Wolff on Rupert Murdoch, Sister Loyola Galvin on community gardening, film maker Gaylene Preston and the eight musicians who used her Takaka shed for their Woolshed Sessions (Age Pryor, Andy Hummel, Jess Chambers, Justin Firefly Clarke, Al Fraser, Lee Prebble, Peter Hill, Brett Skinner), Alice Waters of pioneering Californian bistro Chez Panisse, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (Louise Fitzhugh and Mary Rodgers).
Full episodeSaturday, 13 December 2008
Malcolm Gladwell on outliers and success, Hilary Pearse on Canada's constitutional crisis, Susan Schenk on how ecstasy and other drugs change the brain and behaviour, Kate Camp on Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, John Darnielle of Mountain Goats, Carol Drinkwater on the history of olives, Gill Pittar on her Milly Molly series of children’s books.
Full episodeSaturday, 6 December 2008
Mark Thomas on his global adventures with Coca-Cola, Kim makes a Leonard Cohen announcement, Lord Bingham on the law, Karl Maughan on painting gardens, Philip Norman on the life of John Lennon, destitute gourmet Sophie Gray on giving frugally, Ian Brodie on his photographic travels around New Zealand, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Russell Hoban.
Full episodeSaturday, 29 November 2008
Gary Marcus on the brain as kluge, photographer Geoff Steven on the world heritage databank, Margaret Atwood on debt, Frances Hill on virtual classrooms and distance learning, Playing Favourites with Steve Katz of Blood, Sweat Tears, Alan Breslau on burn injuries, Fatcat Fishface on New Zealand’s children’s music.
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