All episodes
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
Saturday, 25 March 2023
- 8:12 Adharanand Finn: Zane Robertson and Kenyan running culture
- 8:39 Dr Ellen Nelson: local hero who helped evacuate Afghan colleagues to NZ
- 9:07 Author Bonnie Garmus on her debut bestseller "Lessons in Chemistry"
- 9:40 Jai Grewal: pickleball - the best sport you've never heard of
- 10:05 Chloe Gong: #BookTok and the remarkable rise of a writer
- 10:40 Fire vs ice: volcanologist Graham Leonard on Tongariro
- 11:06 Playing Favourites with artist Judy Darragh
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 25 March 2023
Saturday, 18 March 2023
- 8:10 Sam Neill releases revealing memoir
- 9:05 Tom Bateman: protest and the future of Democracy in Israel
- 9:30 Kat Tua: young Māori designer turning fashion heads
- 10:05 Prof Peter Deardon: the genetic secrets of the velvet worm
- 10:30 Evana Belich: how to get fired
- 11:06 Gordon Collier's magical home gardens
- 11:36 Megan Dunn on art: looking at crocodiles
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 18 March 2023
Saturday, 11 March 2023
- 8:12 Gulchehra Hoja: speaking out for the Uyghur
- 8:32 Jon Tunnicliffe: releasing waterways from a stranglehold
- 9:09 Peter Meihana: putting privilege in check
- 9:38 Holli McEntegart: the art of postpartum care
- 10:09 Simon Armitage: the UK poet laureate on why poetry matters
- 10:38 Peter Lynn: a legend of kite design
- 11:05 Victoria Finlay: How Fabrics are woven into our lives
- 11:35 The Fan Brigade: unlikely unruly librettists
Saturday, 4 March 2023
- 8:10 Dr Bessel van der Kolk: how to heal trauma
- 9:07 UMO's Ruban Nielson: "I Killed Captain Cook"
- 9:35 Ann-Helén Laestadiu: Sami, the reindeer people
- 10:06 AI ethicist Timnit Gebru: why we can't trust Silicon Valley
- 10:40 Whare Timu: building on mātauranga Māori
- 11:05 Playing favourites with yeehawtheboys’ Daniel Vernon
Saturday, 25 February 2023
- 8:10 Stephen Glassey: weather update
- 8:15 Prof Jonathan Boston: how to manage managed retreat
- 8:50 Hawke's Bay Civil Defence update
- 8:55 Julian Wilcox: live from Te Matatini
- 9:05 Strippers unite to fight for employment rights
- 9:35 Claire Harman: all sorts of love for Katherine Mansfield
- 10:45 On the road with organic gardener Kath Irvine
- 11:10 John Miller: a life behind the lens at protests
- 11:40 Dancing the stories of Australia's great desert regions
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 25 February 2023
- 2:05 Lydia Millet: 'You have to seek out hope by engaging with the world'
Saturday, 18 February 2023
- 8:10 Cyclone Gabrielle aftermath
- 8:40 Bob Harvey on Cyclone Gabrielle in Aucklands west coast
- 9:05 Dub legend Mad Professor
- 9:35 Prof Roger Lentle: can wild deer and conservation coexist?
- 10:05 Andrey Kurkov: One year on from the invasion of Ukraine
- 11:05 Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa
- 11:35 Matt Baker: self repairing bacteria and de-extincting dodos
- 12:00 Listener feedback for 18 February 2023
Saturday, 11 February 2023
- 8:10 Welsh comedian Rob Brydon's musical trip
- 9:06 'Going online is not an innocent act' - Eleanor Catton on how technology is changing us
- 9:45 Danyl McLauchlan: Neoliberalism and New Zealand
- 10:05 Jemima Khan: new film inspired by her own marriage
- 10:33 Prof Huhana Smith: using biochar to restore whenua
- 11:05 Jenni Quilter: experiments in motherhood and technology
- 11:30 Kae Tempest: how creativity saved them from the storm
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 11 February 2023
Saturday, 4 February 2023
- 8:10 Filmmaker Sarah Polley: 'It was so egoless'
- 8:30 Prof Michelle Simmons: making machines at the atomic limit
- 9:05 Kevin Jared Hosein: hungry ghosts of Trinidad's colonial legacy
- 9:30 Byron C. Clark: fear and loathing in Aotearoa
- 10:05 John Otway: the success of rock 'n' roll's biggest failure
- 10:35 Megan Dunn on art: Joe L'Estrange and Nick Austin
- 11:06 Playing Favourites with Matterhorn founder Leon Surynt
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 4 February 2023
Saturday, 28 January 2023
- 8:10 Coverage of the Auckland floods
- 8:15 Mayor Wayne Brown on the Auckland Floods
- 8:30 Prof Tim Jackson: Imagining life after capitalism
- 9:05 Playing Favourites with Robyn Malcolm
- 10:10 Prof Richard Taylor: bio-inspired technology improving the eye
- 10:35 Kevin Buley: Auckland Zoo turns 100
- 11:05 Fantastic Negrito - ancestors inspire gospel-psych-blues concept album
- 11:30 Morgan Davie: drama in the realm of Dungeons and Dragons
Saturday, 17 December 2022
- 8:10 Sam McAlister: the woman behind that Prince Andrew interview
- 8:40 Danyl McLauchlan: neurodiversity and me
- 9:07 Principal experimentalist explains nuclear fusion breakthrough
- 9:37 Lawrence Millman: was Santa tripping on magic mushrooms?
- 10:07 Brigid Delaney: how to be Stoic in Chaotic Times
- 10:35 Bee Dawson: the heroes of Otari-Wilton's bush
- 11:05 The best books of 2022 with Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch
- 11:05 The best books of 2022 with Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch
- 11:55 Saturday morning Listener Feed back
Saturday, 10 December 2022
- 8:12 Hon. Ralph Regenvanu: Vanuatu demands climate change justice
- 8:40 Prof Catherine Fowler: the greatest film you’ve never seen
- 9:05 Hugh Rennie: overcoming 150 years of NZ misrule in the Chathams
- 9:40 Jonathan McDowell: a year of space exploration in review
- 10:06 Brad DeLong: the modern dream slouches towards utopia
- 10:40 Jaye Pukepuke: the bro helping at-risk youth
- 11:06 Mike Parker Pearson: Stonehenge’s purpose and origins
- 11:43 Kate Louise Elliot: the power of theatre in a community
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 10 December 2022
Saturday, 3 December 2022
- 8:10 Vivian Wang: on the ground at China's zero-covid protests
- 9:05 Edda Mussolini and the rise and fall of fascism
- 9:40 Jonathan Drori: photosynthesis and an underground pitcher plant
- 10:05 Prof Mike Berridge: recognising vital work in cellular science
- 10:40 Mike Hewson: the fine art of taking risks
- 11:05 Jude Rogers: how popular music gets woven into our lives
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
- 5:35 Brett Gartrell: Avian influenza could devastate native birds
