Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:37 AM.The Black Lives Matter protests continue to influence the spectacle and the business of pro sports. With many of the world's top leagues now back in action, including the NBA, football and the NFL… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.How tough would it be to defend a nationalist politician whose views would see you and your family deported from the country they now call home? Australian criminal lawyer Andrew Boe arrived in… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.How does the design of our buildings and office layouts need to change to minimise the spread of COVID-19? That's one of the questions exercising Joe Allen, an assistant professor of exposure… Read more Audio

5:09 PM.Iconic New Zealand monthly current affairs magazine North & South is rising from the ashes, and at the helm will be new editor Rachel Morris. German journalists Konstantin Richter and Verena… Read more Audio

4:35 PM.Dr Chris Smith returns to discuss the latest Covid-19 science and research news. This week trials of one of the front-running vaccines (AZD1222 aka the "Oxford vaccine") made by AstraZeneca, have been… Read more Audio

2:46 PM.Actor, model, producer, activist and former fitness guru Jane Fonda reflects on her relationship with climate change activism in a new book:What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to Action. Fonda… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Presented by Dame Professor Anne Salmond, TV series Artefact focuses on objects and taonga at the heart of historical dramas. These treasures range from physical items to places or living things. And… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Filmmaker and journalist Barbara Sumner was adopted in 1960 and at the age of 23, embarked on a search to find her birth mother. The system made this all but impossible, and Sumner now campaigns for… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Biologist and mycologist Merlin Sheldrake explores the strange and wonderful world of fungi in his book Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. It can be… Read more Video, Audio

9:35 AM.Podcaster Phoebe Judge is the host and co-creator of popular shows Criminal and This Is Love, and the owner of one of the more distinctive voices in audio. Her new lockdown-inspired series Phoebe… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Art historian and curator Mary Kisler discusses the opening of a touring Auckland Art Gallery exhibition at the Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi in Wellington. The 19 Gallery's part of the Frances… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

11:25 AM.Dr Erin Macaulay is passionate about placentas. The Otago University academic studies the epigenetics of early human development and is intrigued by the fact that placentas display similar growth… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Underground is where humans have kept our most sacred treasures and darkest secrets. From the subterranean cities of Cappadocia to smuggling tunnels on the US-Mexico border, caves full of tiny blind… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Northland based multi-award-winning musician Troy Kingi is set to release "The Ghost of Freddie Cesar", the fourth instalment in his 10/10/10 series - 10 albums in 10 years in 10 genres. The album has… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Plant biologist Professor Jason Wargent studies how plants respond to UV light. From strawberries to medical marijuana, his research is showing that exposing seeds or seedlings to artificial UV rays… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Australian cleaning specialist Sandra Pankhurst has undertaken some of the toughest jobs imaginable. Violent crime scenes, meth labs, and hoarder's houses are all in a day's work for Specialised… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Big bums, married sex, Botox, teenagers and ageing parents. Columnist and author Caitlin Moran has tackled writing about the challenges of middle age with the same passion and humour that endeared her… Read more Audio

5:10 PM.Phylogeneticist Dr James Hadfield is working with scientists at ESR, the University of Otago & the University of Auckland to map the path of the recent Auckland COVID-19 outbreak using genetic tracing… Read more Audio

5:05 PM.Recently-retired criminology professor Dr Greg Newbold built his 30-plus year academic career on a base of personal experience - courtesy of a seven-and-a-half year jail sentence for selling heroin.

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11:05 AM.American musician Mark Mothersbaugh has some advice for people who have symptoms of Covid-19 – get tested right away. He thinks if he'd got tested earlier he might not have ended up on a ventilator… Read more Video, Audio

11:05 AM.Mark Mothersbaugh made his name as the co-founder, composer and frontman of Devo. The avant-garde American band was influenced by the Surrealists, wore flowerpot-adjacent hats, and were pioneers of… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Ghazaleh Golbakhsh is a writer, filmmaker and Fulbright scholar whose work reflects on displacement, her Iranian-New Zealand experience, and the pressure that comes with living between two worlds. She… Read more Audio