Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:45 AM.On Saturday 1 June, Auckland University's Gus Fisher Gallery will be hosting a special anniversary heritage tour of the Former 1YA Building on the anniversary of the first television broadcast in… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Andrew McConnell is an award-winning photographer who has been covering world events for over 15 years. His first work as a filmaker, GAZA has made the official selection for Sundance 2019 and will… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Guyon Espiner has just stepped down from his role as co-host of RNZ's Morning Report to join the organisation's In-Depth team. His first series for in-Depth is Guyon Espiner investigates Pharmac which… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Dr Hilary Chung is an academic specialising in Asian studies and comparative literature at the University of Auckland, and the founding director of the University's popular Global Studies Programme… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Vincent O'Malley is a founding partner of HistoryWorks, a group of historians specialising in Treaty of Waitangi research. His latest work is The New Zealand Wars/ Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa, about the… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Anne Perkins is a political commentator, writer and broadcaster, and the former deputy political editor of The Guardian. She talked to Noelle about the resignation of British PM Theresa May and where… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Prose writer, poet, artist and teacher Ruby Porter is widely published in journals and tutors creative writing at The University of Auckland. She was the inaugural winner of the Michael Gifkins Prize… Read more Audio

8:00 AM.Matthew W. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was part of a team that evaluated the safety and abuse of the… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Annabel Crabb is the ABC's Chief Political Writer and presenter of Back in Time for Dinner, The House and the highly acclaimed Kitchen Cabinet series on ABC TV. She is also a regular contributor and… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Douglas Coupland sometimes misses the time before the dawn of the internet, but says once you get addicted to any increased level of speed of information you can never go backwards. Mixing the bizarre… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Ken Ramirez is a world authority on animal training. His work history includes 26 years Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, where he developed and supervised animal care and animal health programs, staff… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Carla Guelfenbein is a novelist and screenwriter and was born in Santiago to a Russian-Jewish family. She is one of Chile's bestselling writers and the author of five novels including In the Distance… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.This week the first 100 issues of local music magazine Rip It Up went live in digitised form at the the National Library's Papers Past website. It's the first time Papers Past has digitised a… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Retired psychology professor Glynn Owens – aka 'The Prince' – is one of the top five amateur pole dancers in New Zealand. Read more Video, Audio

8:15 AM.Josh Gerstein is senior legal affairs contributor for Politico. This week he has reported on the case of Leonidas Bimenyimana and Gregoire Nyaminani, two Rwandan men who, along with a third, Francois… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Alison Stringer works a government job by day, and is a scientist and lifelong forager. A trained mycologist (fungi expert), she undertook graduate studies in Dr Ian Hall's edible ecomycorrhizal fungi… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:04 AM.Cliff Curtis is one of New Zealand's most well known actors. His local successes include Once Were Warriors and Whale Riders and he has also had roles in international films including Last Nights and… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist Dustin Lance Black has recently written a memoir about his upbringing called Mama's Boy, which describes growing up… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Professor Bryony James received her undergraduate degree in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Bath, England in 1993 and my PhD in Materials Engineering at the University of… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.The Wilco frontman and author of the 2018 memoir Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) speaks to Kim Hill ahead of his visit to the Auckland Writers Festival. Read more Video, Audio

8:09 AM.Middle distance runner and two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya has lost her battle against International Association of Athletics (IAAF) regulations that exclude her, and others, from competing… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Dunedin music icon Shayne Carter talks to Kim Hill about his upcoming book Dead People I Have Known. Carter began playing music as a teenager at Kaikorai Valley High School and he's been a member… Read more Audio, Gallery