Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:40 AM.The Christchurch Arts Festival is about to kick-off (July 26 - August 4th) and this year it has a different emphasis: it will focus on Christchurch artists rather than a roster of international… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Helen Russell is a British journalist, bestselling author and speaker. Formerly the editor of marieclaire.co.uk, Helen has worked as a correspondent for The Guardian, as well as writing a longstanding… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.In December 1968 a 22-year-old David Bowie penned what is now one of his most loved songs, 'Space Oddity'. It offered a dystopian counter-image to the overwhelming global enthusiasm for space… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Marianne Schultz danced professionally in New York as a member of Laura Dean Dancers and independent choreographers. After relocating to New Zealand she worked as dancer/teacher/rehearsal director… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Eric Cornell is an American physicist who, with Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001 for creating a new ultracold state of matter, the so-called Bose-Einstein… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.50 years ago humans landed on the moon for the first time and now footage from the Apollo missions has been crafted together in a documentary, Apollo: Missions To The Moon, which will screen on the… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:10 AM.Described as putting sex in the mirror, Three Women explores our complicated relationship with sex through teenager Maggie, who is in a relationship with her high school teacher, Lina whose husband… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.The dress code for Lisa McMillan's experimental supper club is both simple and challenging - guests dine naked ( with the option of an apron for shy moments). The Naked Dinner began in London and is… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Internationally respected New Zealand ecologist John Flux has spent his life studying hares, starlings, and even his own cats. Audio

10:35 AM.Brett Doar is a contraptionist, kinetic sculptor, and engineer best known for his Rube Goldberg machines, which he has designed and engineered for the likes of Disney, and OK Go's This Too Shall Pass… Read more Video, Audio

10:08 AM.Voices New Zealand is the country's nationally-selected, professional choir and is hitting the road in July with five new works from five of New Zealand's most exciting composers - the first tour of… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Arthur Tompkins is a trustee of the NZ Art Crime Research Trust and a District Court Judge in Wellington. In 2016 he edited Art Crime and Its Prevention (Lund Humphries, London), and the same… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:08 AM.Simon Schama is Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. He has written and presented forty television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and The History Channel… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.This week, researchers from Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) announced they had been able to eliminate HIV from the DNA of infected mice - a proof of concept the… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.In mid 2017 Oamaru veterinarian Dr Merlyn Hay noticed cows and calves on a South Canterbury property displaying unusual and distressing symptoms. Her dogged determination to find the cause of their… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Classical and modern guitarist Gunter Herbig was born in Brazil, grew up in Portugal and Germany, and moved to New Zealand in 1989. A teacher, he was Head of Classical Guitar and Chamber Music at the… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.A culinary school graduate, Sother Teague began his hospitality career in restaurant kitchens, then worked as a research and technical chef on the Food Network series, Good Eats. He subsequently moved… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Ines Moran is a PhD student in the Cain Lab at the University of Auckland, who researches dialects, vocal networks and vocal leaning (birdsong) in avian kinship groups. Her main area of study is the… Read more Video, Audio

10:04 AM.New Zealand's first tramping club, The Tararua Tramping Club celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. These days tramping is a mainstream leisure pursuit but In 1919 it was viewed as a very odd way… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:40 AM.Finn McCahon-Jones is is the grandson of one of New Zealand's most iconic painters, Colin McCahon. He recently began researching and writing about his grandfather's time as a curator at Auckland City… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:04 AM.A double album of Aretha Franklin's 1972 performance at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles became the highest-selling live gospel music recording of all time. It was also… Read more Video, Audio

8:12 AM.At the age of 19, Paul Wood was sentenced to life in prison for murder. Now he's a Doctor of Psychology, a development coach and the author of a new memoir How to Escape from Prison. He speaks to Kim… Read more Audio