Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:40 AM.Christo, the Bulgarian-born conceptual artist best known for wrapping large and unlikely things died last month. He worked for much of his career with partner Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:00 AM.British artist Jason deCaires Taylor is a sub-aquatic artist with a growing list of extraordinary works. His seabed creations, often featuring realistic human figures based on local people, become… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Matthew Cobb is Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester where his research focuses on the sense of smell, insect behaviour, and the history of science (also, maggots!). His new book The… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Artist and painter Sandy Adsett (Ngāti Kahungunu) has just been selected by the Arts Foundation as an icon of New Zealand art "...for his profound impact on the Māori community and Māori arts… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.In mountaineering circles, saying you'd never want to share a rope with someone is a harsh insult. And when the man saying these things about you is national hero Sir Edmund Hillary, it really isn't… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Why do some diseases spread while others fail to take hold? Adam Kucharski studies the mathematics of contagion: predicting patterns of transmission for outbreaks including Ebola, Zika and now… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Former policeman Joseph DeAngelo, the man known as the Golden State Killer, admitted to 13 murders and myriad other crimes in court this week in a plea deal designed to spare him the death penalty… Read more Audio

5:20 PM.With the world in lockdown, people are having to get creative in their pursuit of overseas adventures. Country school teacher and sheep farmer Angie Hossack has discovered a lucrative side hustle… Read more Audio

4:40 PM.Lawyer Julia Steenson (Ngati Whatua and Waikato/Tainui) is a new Commissioner of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-Based Institutions.  Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Vocalist and guitarist who plays with drummer Nick Gaffaney in hard rock duo Cairo Knife Fight, and is currently on the Nation of the State tour throughout New Zealand with his funk band Ahoribuzz. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.A leading light in indigenous film-making, Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne/ Mescalero Apache) grew up on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. Since 2001 he has led the Sundance Institute's… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.The Institute for Digital Archaeology aims to use modern technology to preserve and in some cases rebuild ancient objects so more people can enjoy them. Roger Michel is the founder and Executive… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Dr Alexy Karenowska wants people to be able to sniff history. She's a magnetician at the University of Oxford, a physicist and engineer who is also the Director of Technology of the Institute of… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Australia has a 'national emergency' of domestic abuse, says investigative journalist Jess Hill. Her six-year investigation is the subject of the award-winning book See What You Made Me Do. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Author and 'veteran worrier' Mark O'Connell has criss-crossed the globe to meet people preparing for the end of the world.  Read more Audio

8:10 AM.An extraordinary prehistoric landscape secret has been revealed in the UK. New research published in the journal Internet Archaeology outlines the discovery and mapping of a giant circle of buried… Read more Audio, Gallery

3:12 PM.J. Scott Thomson is the former police chief of Camden, New Jersey. He presided over a major process of reform in one of America's most violent cities. With many areas of the US (and elsewhere) mulling… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Everyone's had a recent experience of living in a confined space for a prolonged period. Now artist Fiona Amundsen and writer Tim Corballis collaborate on a new exhibition exploring three communities… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Professor Tiffany Field is the Director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami. She studies human touch: why we need it, what it can do for us, and how the importance of touch is… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Oceanographer Peter McComb studies the giant waves of the Southern Ocean and the Ross Sea to make the region safer for fishing vessels, and for the ships of The Royal New Zealand Navy. Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.C.K. Stead chats about his second memoir You Have a Lot to Lose, his relationships with foes and friends including Janet Frame and his infidelity. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.NZer quantum physicist Andrew Wilson was part of a team that became the first in the Southern Hemisphere to create the fifth state of matter, the Bose-Einstein Condensate. He's just been appointed to… Read more Audio