All episodes
Saturday, 13 August 2022
- 8:10 Tom Bower: Meghan’s interview with Oprah was ‘the last straw’
- 9:05 Rachel Kushner: reflections on running with The Hard Crowd
- 9:35 Dr Neil Shubin: the fish that evolved to walk but stayed in the water
- 10:05 Sharon Ready & Liz Gregory: standing up to the Gloriavale shepherds
- 10:40 Prof Peter McIntyre: could polio make a comeback?
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with musician Rutene Spooner
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback for 13 August 2022
Saturday, 6 August 2022
- 8:10 Dr José Esparza: the mysterious virus that protects against monkeypox
- 9:07 Patrick Radden Keefe: collecting criminals and con artists for new book Rogues
- 10:05 The complicated legend of Leonard Cohen’s most famous song
- 11:07 Lynne O’Donnell & Massoud Hossaini: the fall of Kabul one year on
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 6 August 2022
- 2:40 Dr Nick Holm: how New Zealand comedy embraces being a bit s**t
- 4:35 Vanessa Braganza: decoding messages left by Catherine of Aragon
Saturday, 30 July 2022
- 8:13 Dov Forman: teen shares great-grandmother’s Holocaust survival story
- 8:39 Lisa Friedman: the US's massive new climate change bill
- 9:08 James Belich: how the Black Death led to the rise of Europe
- 10:06 Sir Anthony Seldon: what’s next for 10 Downing Street?
- 10:35 Catherine Martin: creating costumes that capture the Elvis wiggle
- 11:05 Fa'amoana John Luafutu: the story of a boy called Piano
- 11:30 Hilary Hahn: the violin virtuoso pushing musical boundaries
- 11:59 Listener feedback
Saturday, 23 July 2022
- 8:15 Ashley Bloomfield: 'you’ve got to be tenacious in public health'
- 8:48 Erina Daniels: the Great Depression through a Māori lens
- 9:09 Sandi Toksvig: ‘we have to decide to be positive’
- 9:35 David Trubridge: ‘the other way’ to the world’s furthest reaches
- 10:06 Welby Ings: boxing film packs a deeply personal punch
- 10:45 Risa Mickenberg: the 'hermettes’ who celebrate aloneness
- 11:10 Dr Norman Swan: practical advice on how to stay younger longer
- 11:59 Listener feedback
Saturday, 16 July 2022
- 8:10 Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa: Sri Lanka’s civil uprising
- 8:35 Brian Burke: putting the ‘wow’ into the World of WearableArt
- 9:05 Professor Lea Ypi: coming of age at the End of History
- 9:40 Lucien Johnson: saxophonist puts Peter Bland poems to music
- 10:05 Robert B Weide: the Vonnegut film 40 years in the making
- 10:35 Chris Rinke: polystyrene-eating worms could change recycling
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with poet Kate Camp
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback 16 July
Saturday, 9 July 2022
- 8:15 Prof Tim Bale:Tory government rebuild after Boris freefall
- 8:40 María Jimena Duzán: Colombia goes left and faces its truths
- 9:11 Dr. Michael Neill: A Jolly Fine Caper
- 9:35 Jackie Flynn Mogensen: Shortage of primates for research
- 10:05 Kate De Goldi: love and loss in post-earthquake Christchurch
- 10:30 Floris Niu: empowering Pacific women farmers with chocolate
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with NZ screen legend Aileen O’Sullivan
- 11:50 Our Listener Saturday Feedback
- 2:07 Dr Anthony Fauci: Covid and the rise of the BA.5 subvariant
Saturday, 2 July 2022
- 8:12 Gloria Allred: the overturning of Roe v Wade
- 8:40 Belinda Kitchin: authors second thoughts on first editions
- 9:08 Dr Lindsey Fitzharris: Visionary plastic surgeon Harold Gillies
- 10:10 Jody Rosen: how the bicycle has changed the world
- 10:40 Daniel Roher: following jailed Navalny’s trail of poison
- 11:07 Dame Lynley Dodd: the inner workings of Hairy MacLary
- 11:40 Kath Irvine: winter planting and chickens in the garden
Saturday, 25 June 2022
- 8:10 Simon Marks: the US right to abortion is overturned
- 8:20 Samuel Getachew: can Ethiopia give peace a chance?
- 8:35 Li-Ming Hu: making a disco performance of yourself
- 9:05 Masha Gessen: Putin’s endgame and the propaganda machine
- 9:40 Karen Wrigglesworth: saving the hidden garden of Whanganui
- 10:05 Leah Purcell: creating a one-woman outback Western
- 11:05 Sarah Jane Barnett: a coming-of-middle-age story
- 11:35 Matt Baker: giant bacteria and robotic fish
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 25 June 2022
Saturday, 18 June 2022
- 8:10 Dr Anna Powles: what is the ‘Pacific family’?
- 8:35 Kevin McArevey: teaching philosophy to north Belfast youth
- 9:05 Mary Gaitskill: the writer unafraid of unpopular opinions
- 9:35 Gerry Paul: getting good ‘n greasy with the T-Bone band
- 10:05 Nichola Raihani: ‘cooperation is a form of competition’
- 10:35 Rena Owen: tackling the role of a lifetime in Whina
- 11:07 Playing Favourites with Professor Rangi Matamua
- 11:55 Listener feedback 18 June 2022
Saturday, 11 June 2022
- 8:10 Neri Zilber: can Israel’s coalition government last?
- 8:30 Dr Ian Griffin: uncovering the mysterious STEVE aurora
- 9:35 Prof Mike Sharples: will AI do all our writing in the future?
- 10:05 Playing Favourites with musician Bret McKenzie
- 11:05 Tony Brunt: 50 years since founding the Values Party
- 11:42 Jackie Van Beek: peek behind the curtains of Nude Tuesday
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 11 June
- 5:55 Hazel Phillips: the joys of tramping solo
Saturday, 4 June 2022
- 8:12 Margaret Casey: surrogacy laws a ‘hot button issue’
- 8:35 Hone Kouka: his provocative new work Ngā Rorirori
- 9:05 Francis Fukuyama: can Western liberal democracy be rescued?
- 9:47 Prof Jane Harding: preventing brain damage in newborns
- 10:07 Joan Wasser: marching to the beat of drumming legend Tony Allen
- 10:30 Laurence Fearnley: beauty of MacKenzie Country in fiction
- 11:10 Roger Steele: the publisher dedicated to the underdogs
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 4 June 2022
Saturday, 28 May 2022
- 8:12 Joshua Prager: whatever happened to baby Roe?
- 8:45 Nathan Joe: new play a meta-analysis of Asian identity
- 9:40 Dr Rangi Te Kanawa: working to conserve our taonga kakahu
- 10:07 Justin Fenton: Baltimore’s corrupt cops in follow-up to The Wire
- 11:07 Nick Duerden: what happens to pop stars after the hits dry up?
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 28 May 2022
- 5:07 Gideon Mendel: Capturing portraits of a drowning world
Saturday, 21 May 2022
- 8:12 Barrie Cassidy: will Scott Morrison be re-elected?
- 8:40 Jonathan Drori: saving bananas and rediscovering orchids
- 9:30 Maryrose Crook: taking The Renderers on tour
- 10:06 Professor Craig Cary: exploring extreme bacteria in Antarctica
- 11:06 Playing Favourites with artist Dame Robin White
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 21 May 2022
- 6:07 Helen Thompson: are we facing an international energy crisis?
Saturday, 14 May 2022
- 8:12 Regine Cabato: how the Marcos dynasty regained power in Philippines
- 8:35 Mike McCartney: famous for more than being Paul’s brother
- 9:05 Kathleen Stock: the professor who lost her career amid toxic gender debate
- 11:05 Prof Roy Kerr: astronomers reveal first image of black hole at Milky Way’s centre
- 11:39 Theia shares stunning new reo Māori project Te Kaahu
- 11:59 Listener feedback
- 5:37 Jennifer Ward-Lealand: more intimacy training on the horizon for actors
- 6:07 Whiti Hereaka: 'This is my version of it' - How a Māori legend won NZ's top book award
Saturday, 7 May 2022
- 8:10 Meirion Jones: how Jimmy Savile hid his crimes for decades
- 8:45 Dr Andy Mycock: lessons from UK on lowering the voting age
- 9:07 Roe v Wade protests outside US Supreme Court
- 9:10 Dr Nic Rawlence: game-changing method to extract ancient DNA
- 9:40 Eleanor Bishop: new opera draws inspiration from Janet Frame
- 10:10 Amit Katwala: the intriguing origins of the polygraph machine
- 10:30 Edward Ashby: helping people understand the mana of Kauri
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Lyttelton legend Al Park
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 7 May 2022
Saturday, 30 April 2022
- 8:13 Owen Bennett: is Elon set for a scuffle with the EU?
- 8:35 Prof Gavin Giovannoni: the common virus thought to cause multiple sclerosis
- 9:09 James Birch: bringing the Bacon to Moscow
- 9:39 Prof Erin Griffey: recreating Renaissance beauty products
- 10:08 Stuart Murdoch: spirituality with Belle and Sebastian’s frontman
- 10:42 Dr David Campbell: our wetlands are wildly misunderstood
- 11:06 Jan Kemp: pioneering NZ poet shares new memoir Raiment
- 11:59 Listener feedback
- 5:35 Rowan of Wycksted: celebrating witches’ new year in the Kaipara
Saturday, 23 April 2022
- 8:10 James Griffiths: Shanghai lockdown stirs online dissent
- 8:35 Pauline Autet: the many firsts of the 2022 Venice Biennale
- 9:05 Jennifer Egan: sharing your unconscious in The Candy House
- 9:35 Jim Lynch: creating a blueprint for the end of extinction
- 10:50 Bill Browder: the man high on Putin’s hit list
- 11:05 Matthew Galloway: why take phosphate from the Western Sahara?
- 11:35 Matt Baker: engineered mosquitoes and mutating mammals
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 23 April 2022
Saturday, 16 April 2022
- 8:12 Prof Mabel Berezin: French elections reveal rightward shift
- 8:35 Aidan Hart: the allure of religious iconography
- 9:08 Keith Kahn-Harris: the surprising journey spurred by Kinder eggs
- 10:06 Playing Favourites with veteran journalist Jim Tucker
- 11:10 Julia Croft: taking Terrapolis to the stage
- 11:39 Megan Dunn: is the future of art a Femmebot?
- 11:59 Listener feedback
Saturday, 9 April 2022
- 8:10 Dr Chris Smith: is the XE variant cause for concern?
- 10:05 Prof John Logan: Amazon and the US union movement
- 10:35 Dr Peter Wills: testing the origins of life on Earth
- 11:05 Cate Le Bon: embracing escapism in California’s Joshua Tree
- 11:35 Sam Duckor-Jones: painting a church pink in the Grey District
- 11:59 Saturday Feedback
- 5:05 Jenny Pattrick: bringing New Zealand history to life through storytelling
- 5:35 Dr Chris Thorogood: the secret life of parasitic plants
Saturday, 2 April 2022
- 8:11 Prof Jeremy Nicholson: the link between Long Covid and heart disease
- 8:40 Areez Katki: breathing new life into the art of embroidery
- 9:08 Tā Tipene O’Regan: a life spent building a bicultural nation
- 9:35 Anna Jackson: unpacking how poetry works through the ages
- 10:06 Playing Favourites with musician Delaney Davidson
- 11:07 Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert: surviving 804 days in an Iranian prison
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 2 April 2022
Saturday, 26 March 2022
- 8:13 Julian Walker: who is the man dubbed ‘Putin’s brain’?
- 8:40 Dr Wijnand Van Tilburg: what makes someone boring?
- 9:07 Kevin Rudd: Detainment of refugees ‘an act of monumental cruelty’
- 10:10 John Darnielle: the 'Satanic Panic' in words and song
- 11:06 Prof David Hayman: hunting for the next pandemic virus
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 26 March 2022
- 4:45 Robert Leonard: the surprising photographs of a young Jane Campion
Saturday, 19 March 2022
- 8:10 Rodney Jones: how China's lockdowns could rock the global economy
- 8:35 Ann Goldstein: bringing Elena Ferrante to the English-speaking world
- 9:05 Gabriel Gatehouse: why the QAnon conspiracy refuses to die
- 10:05 Playing Favourites with musician Teremoana Rapley
- 11:05 Noelle McCarthy: being a daughter and dealing with demons
- 11:35 Kath Irvine: apple picking and autumn in the garden
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 19 March 2022
Saturday, 12 March 2022
- 8:10 Inside the process of creating a new public media entity
- 8:23 Gideon Defoe: the stories behind the world's extinct countries
- 9:07 David McWilliams: 'The global economy is like a tube of toothpaste'
- 9:46 Simon Fenwick: taking table tennis to the next level
- 10:05 Playing Favourites with producer Alan Jansson
- 11:06 Julian Oliver: opening up communications technology for all
Saturday, 5 March 2022
- 8:13 Ukraine invasion: update from the capital Kyiv
- 8:20 Emerson T Brooking: Russia steps up its disinformation campaign
- 8:39 Nigel Slaughter: are we missing the boat on medicinal cannabis?
- 9:48 Doris de Pont: the power of what you wear
- 10:10 David Wengrow: rewriting the history of humanity
- 11:09 Playing Favourites with comedian Pax Assadi
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 5 March 2022
- 6:08 Michael Schur: The Good Place creator's quest to be perfect
Saturday, 26 February 2022
- 8:10 Ukraine invasion: update from the capital Kyiv
- 8:15 Professor Stefan Wolff: What the West needs to do now
- 8:35 Professor Kurt Krause: why don’t we have effective anti-virals?
- 9:06 British divers share gripping details of Thai Cave rescue
- 9:39 Fiona Jack: the artist going from Nothing to Everything
- 10:05 Professor David Marples: Putin’s true motives for invading Ukraine
- 10:35 Ezra Hirawani: Māori energy retailer empowering people
- 11:05 Hoda Afshar: whistleblowers and possession by the wind
- 11:35 Vincent O'Sullivan: Frankenstein’s creature in Fiordland
- 11:59 Feedback for 26 February 2022
