All episodes
Saturday, 16 September 2023
- 8:10 Former UK Prime Minister Theresa May her book, The Abuse of Power
- 8:55 Nathan Rarere: All Blacks vs Namibia
- 9:05 Julia Ebner: how extremist ideas are taking over
- 9:40 Graham Leonard: how prepared are we for a tsunami?
- 10:40 Ron Crosby: Te Kooti's Last Foray
- 11:00 One performer/ten Divas: Bernadette Robinson
- 11:40 Peter Butler: Night Tribe
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
- 3:05 Prof Kevin Tracey: How vagus nerve stimulation will revolutionise medicine
Saturday, 9 September 2023
- 8:10 Nathan Rarere: All Blacks v France at half time
- 8:20 Bernie Taupin: Elton, music and me
- 9:05 Richard Ford: closing the book on Frank Bascombe
- 9:45 Reporting Rugby: Gavin Mairs - All Blacks vs France
- 10:00 Scam baiter Jim Browning
- 10:45 Dr Laura Domigan: from cells in the lab to steaks on a plate
- 11:00 The first social media babies have grown up - and they're angry
- 11:40 Organic gardener Kath Irvine: how to grow seedlings
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
Saturday, 2 September 2023
- 8:10 An uninvited kiss - a pivotal moment in women's football?
- 9:05 The weird and wonderful worlds of Patrick deWitt
- 9:30 Liv McClymont and Aurora Garner-Randolph: standing up for consent
- 10:40 Pet detective Anne-Marie Curry
- 11:05 Triggered? Dr Jonathan Shedler on the overuse of therapy speak
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 2 September 2023
- 3:00 Artist Ned Wenlock dives into a new medium with Tsunami graphic novel
- 4:40 The Beths: Why Kiwi artists struggle in Australian music scene
- 10:05 Brian Christian: how would we know if AI becomes conscious?
Saturday, 26 August 2023
- 8:10 City Shaper Roger Madelin
- 9:05 David Scheel: the mysteries of octopuses
- 9:40 Calling in the debt owed by slave-holding nations
- 10:05 Graphic designer Paula Scher: painting with words
- 10:40 Danyl McLauchlan: a Machiavellian view of politics
- 11:06 Polly Barton: an oral history of pornography
- 11:36 Colin Monteath: Erebus, ice and fire
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 26 August 2023
Saturday, 19 August 2023
- 8:10 Barrie Rice: We Were Blackwater
- 9:35 Tom Kay: let the river go with the flow
- 10:05 From cage fighter to writer: Airana Ngarewa
- 10:35 Richard von Sturmer: a year walking and dreaming in the Waikato
- 11:05 Playing favourites with When The Cat's Away
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 19 August 2023
- 5:05 How to talk to kids about fatphobia
Saturday, 12 August 2023
- 8:10 Dr Ratu Mataira: Kiwi physicist joins the nuclear fusion race
- 9:05 Gabriel Krauze: raw writing from the streets of London
- 9:45 Megan Dunn: worshipping art
- 10:05 Celebrating hip hop's golden anniversary with Darryl Leigh Thomson
- 11:05 Jared Davidson: how prison labour built New Zealand
- 11:30 Prof John Plotz: finding new meaning in old books
- 12:00 Listener feedback for August 12 2023
Saturday, 5 August 2023
- 8:10 Gez Medinger: an insider's guide to Long Covid
- 9:11 Former US Judge Nancy Gertner on Trump's charges and chances
- 10:05 Dr Roderick Mulgan: How to boost your immunity to disease
- 10:30 Dr Cady Coleman: the loneliness of life in space
- 11:10 Anna Funder: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 5 August 2023
- 6:00 Emojis expert tells all: Characters and their alternative meanings
Saturday, 29 July 2023
- 8:10 Prof Peter Ditlevsen: crucial ocean current system heading for collapse
- 9:05 Alice Sherwood: the fashion for authenticity in a world of fakes
- 9:40 Marie Darrieussecq: reflections on insomnia
- 10:05 Deborah Hunt: the romance of Red Mole
- 10:45 Dr Alyssa Lie: could eye drops replace reading glasses?
- 12:00 Saturday morning feedback
- 4:06 How pain affects our pets' behaviour
- 3:05 Playing favourites with Joel Tobeck
Saturday, 22 July 2023
- 8:10 Gaia Vince: mass climate migration is inevitable
- 9:05 Prof Danny Altmann: the burden of long COVID
- 9:40 Volcanologist Graham Leonard: the magma under Auckland
- 10:05 Filmmaker Nicolas Philibert on the art of patient observation
- 10:45 Aesha Scott: the reality of life below deck on super yachts
- 11:05 'Survived the test of time': Vegemite spread still popular 100 years on from invention
- 11:30 Thomasin Sleigh on The Words For Her
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 22 July 2023
Saturday, 15 July 2023
- 8:10 Rokhaya Diallo: how racist policing is fueling unrest in France
- 8:30 Caitlin Moran: saving men from the patriarchy
- 9:49 Te Rangi Huata: lighting Matariki bonfires for Mahuika
- 10:05 Lucy Hone: coping with devastating grief
- 10:40 Patsy Carlyle: the Barbie Collector
- 11:06 Alice Englert: "Bad Behaviour"
- 11:40 Poet Jenny Bornholdt: A Garden is a Long Time
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 15 July 2023
- 2:05 Ben Smith: How clicks, likes and shares ruined digital news
Saturday, 8 July 2023
- 8:10 Prof Susan Rossell: Australian psychiatrists can prescribe MDMA and psilocybin
- 9:05 Lisa Cortés: Little Richard and the queer Black origins of rock'n'roll
- 9:35 Andrew Paul Wood: the history of the occult in Aotearoa
- 10:05 Antony Loewenstein: Palestine a testing ground for war tech
- 10:40 Organic gardener Kath Irvine: winter gardening wisdom
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Roseanne Liang
- 12:00 Listener Feedback
- 4:30 'Happiness is elusive' - Bill Bailey on the joys of ambling and rambling
Saturday, 1 July 2023
- 8:10 Emily Hanford: are we teaching reading all wrong?
- 9:05 Justin Gregg: when orca teach themselves to attack
- 9:35 Gerard Hindmarsh on Rarotonga’s pub "Trader Jack" Cooper
- 10:05 Suzanne Heywood: how a family sailing trip became a nightmare
- 10:40 Danyl McLauchlan: why politicians love to invoke dystopias
- 11:05 Serhii Plokhy: the history and future of the Ukrainian war
- 11:45 Ankita Singh: Aotearoa's kickboxing anime-loving playwright
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 1 July 2023
Saturday, 24 June 2023
- 8:10 Nick McKenzie: Ben Roberts-Smith - the war hero turned criminal
- 9:05 Naomi Oreskes: how Big Business made us love the free market
- 9:35 Musician Jordyn with a Why: Who gets to learn Te Reo Maori?
- 10:35 Painters Euan Macleod and Geoff Dixon create over Facetime
- 11:05 Judy Blume: 'I am very happy with my life'
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 24 June 2023
- 7:05 Pamela Clark: don't make the tip truck cake
Saturday, 17 June 2023
- 8:12 Jenny Nguyen: 'Sports Bra' bar supporting women's sports
- 9:04 Isabel Allende on forced immigration and family separation
- 9:28 Dagan Wells: babies born using three-person IVF
- 10:08 Are humans the smartest animal, or the dumbest?
- 10:47 Jock Scott on the endangered sport of outdoor curling
- 11:05 Lucinda Williams’ rock’n’roll life
- 11:45 Megan Dunn: the fine art of winning prizes
- 12:00 Listener Feedback
Saturday, 10 June 2023
- 8:12 Vinod Balachandran: mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer
- 8:31 Stewart Lansley: finally time for the universal basic income?
- 9:08 Margaret Meyer: stories behind the UK’s deadliest witch-hunt
- 9:40 Prof Philippa Gander: sleeping in line with our rotating planet
- 10:08 Kiwa Hammond: reviving Moriori culture
- 10:42 Hayden Tee: the extra-ordinary director of Next to Normal
- 11:06 Kevin Morby: finding songs in family photo albums
- 11:35 Prof Matt Baker: kitty contraception, flying DNA & brain-body bridges
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 10 June 2023
Saturday, 3 June 2023
- 8:10 Thomas Hertog: Stephen Hawking's final radical theory
- 8:45 Tom Barraclough: are your social media threads under threat?
- 9:05 Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: Using iconicism and satire to combat violence
- 9:35 Samuel Mehr: thinking differently about music
- 10:05 Dame Penelope Wilton: Downton Abbey star’s new film
- 10:35 Adventurer Thor F. Jensen: circumnavigating New Guinea
- 11:05 Suzie Miller: legal injustice against women centre stage
- 11:40 Organic gardener Kath Irvine: time to plant fruit trees
Saturday, 27 May 2023
- 8:12 Prof. Simon Chapman: What the history of smoking should warn us about vaping
- 8:42 Sam Sachdeva: navigating New Zealand's relationship with China
- 9:40 Alison Ballance: the rediscovery and recovery of the takahe
- 10:05 The lives and times of musician Tim Finn
- 11:06 Rachel Ward's farm: from climate despair to hope
- 11:43 Supervolcano unrest under Lake Taupo
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 27 May 2023
- 2:08 Dr Rachel Zoffness: Managing chronic pain is about treating entire body
Saturday, 20 May 2023
- 8:40 Catherine Chidgey: Ockham winner's new novel 'Pet'
- 9:10 Doron Semu: making siapo and a space for queer Pasifika youth
- 9:35 Falconer Noel Hyde: rescuing karearea, ruru and barn owls
- 10:05 Playing favourites: Stuart McKenzie & Miranda Harcourt
- 11:05 Robert Bartholomew: what caused Havana Syndrome
- 11:40 Danyl McLauchlan: Hannah Arendt and the loneliness of modernity
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 20 May 2023
- 3:00 Dr Jonathan Howard: why US doctors spread Covid disinformation
Saturday, 13 May 2023
- 8:14 Mstyslav Chernov: Pulitzer prize winner on Mariupol atrocities
- 9:07 Liv Sisson: Aotearoa’s fascinating and freaky fungi
- 9:42 Sameena Zehra: immigration is a serious laughing matter
- 10:06 David Good: the remarkable gut life of the Yanomami people
- 10:40 David Lawrence: binge-reading Shakespeare’s plays in order
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Russell Brown
- 11:55 Listener feedback 13 May 2023
Saturday, 6 May 2023
- 8:10 Rob Watson: London on the eve of the coronation
- 8:36 Dr George Gross: coronations - the good, the bad, and the ugly
- 9:05 Emma Espiner: a life less ordinary
- 9:35 Sean Collins-Smith: why American late night TV has gone dark
- 10:05 Jonathan Kennedy: how germs made history
- 10:45 Megan Dunn: the kinky and the kooky lurking in public art
- 11:06 Playing Favourites with Liz Mellish
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 6 May 2023
Saturday, 29 April 2023
- 8:10 Reem Abbas on the situation in Khartoum and hopes for Sudan
- 8:26 Paddy Manning: the real Succession with the Murdochs
- 9:07 Compost king Liam Prince on life with less waste
- 9:40 NASA's new head of science Dr Nicola Fox
- 10:07 Curtis Sittenfeld: rehabilitating the image of the rom-com
- 10:30 Richard Fidler: in the footsteps of medieval wanderers
- 11:05 Alie Benge: writing about a concept of home
- 11:37 Kerryn Fields: a folk and country music star finally back home
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 29 April 2023
Saturday, 22 April 2023
- 8:10 Laura Tingle: is Australia still learning from Aotearoa?
- 8:20 Anthony McCarten: writing biopics of the fascinating and famous
- 9:05 Jac den Houting: why everything you know about autism is wrong
- 10:06 Rebecca Struthers: the preciousness of time
- 10:40 Jason Te Mete on finding community in the Bay of Plenty
- 11:08 The metabolic origins of Alzheimer's disease
- 11:45 On the road with organic gardener Kath Irvine
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 22 April 2023
Saturday, 15 April 2023
- 8:10 The Wagner Group: doing Russia’s dirty work in Africa
- 8:30 William Sitwell: dishing up the history of dining out
- 9:05 Sarah Gregorius: fighting for equality for female footballers
- 9:30 Josh Baker: how a London school girl ended up an ISIS bride
- 10:06 Claire Dederer: admiring the art of monstrous men
- 11:05 Michele Leggott: celebrating unsung 1860’s artist Emily Harris
- 11:40 Matt Baker: beat bopping rats and feathered dinosaurs
- 11:59 Listener feedback for 15 April 2023
Saturday, 8 April 2023
- 8:12 David Mitchell: Brexit's impact on the Good Friday agreement
- 8:36 Meg Smaker: the most controversial film of 2022
- 9:07 Poet Michele Leggott: waiting for a miracle
- 9:40 Dr Fatima Cody Stanford: Obesity vs Ozempic
- 10:06 Daniel M Lavery: the awkwardness of gender transition
- 11:05 John Ross in Taiwan
- 11:35 Danyl McLauchlan: why we vote the way we do
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Listener Feedback
- 3:00 Nanny Pura Whale: a life of service to the Maori Wardens
Saturday, 1 April 2023
- 8:10 Brian Christian: AI’s ethical alignment problem
- 8:40 Simon Hall: creating NZ’s largest private conservation estate
- 9:06 Nguyen Phan Que Mai: Vietnamese stories behind the war
- 9:35 Actor Yvette Parsons: representing real women on screen
- 10:05 Peter Frankopan: how climate shapes history
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Far North Mayor Moko Tepania
- 11:59 Listener feedback for 1 April 2023
