Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:30 AM.This week Doug Wilson addresses our typical level of happiness as we age. Why is this so important, how does this fluctuate through life, and what can we do to change it? Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Motown legend Gladys Knight will perform with a nine-piece band at a sold out show at the Civic Theatre in Auckland on Thursday 13 February, and at Christchurch's Town Hall on Saturday 15 February. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Op-shops and second hand shops are full to bursting, thanks to a rising cultural obsession with decluttering and minimalism. Adam Minter's first book Junkyard Planet (2014) examined the US$500 million… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Are you a leg-jiggler, doodler, hair twiddler or pen clicker? If so, you're not alone. Dr Kat Arney is a science writer and broadcaster who has interviewed academics, neuroscientists and fidgeters for… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.With more than 200 deaths and at least 9,000 confirmed cases, countries currently unaffected (including New Zealand) are bracing for the arrival of the disease. Dr Chris Smith, consultant virologist… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Poet and writer Kate Camp returns for the latest instalment of Kate's Klassics. This week she reviews Elizabeth Bowen's 1948 novel, The Heat of the Day. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Australia-based Nelson-born creative Anton Thomas is putting the art back into cartography with beautiful hand-drawn maps. His giant (1.2 metre by 1.5 metre) map North America: Portrait of A Continent… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:35 AM.Since 2003, Renwick School principal Simon Heath has been involved in developing the Mistletoe Bay Eco Village and Camp Ground, an outdoor activity centre in the Marlborough Sounds. Thousands of… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.American novelist André Aciman authored worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name in 2007. His recently released book Find Me revisits the same characters decades on from the summer romance recounted… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Could having too many friends be bad for you? The answer is yes, according to Oxford University Professor Robin Dunbar who studies human social networks. Read more Audio

9:06 AM.How serious is the outbreak of coronavirus? How far and fast is it likely to spread? Cases of the coronavirus "2019-nCoV" have now been confirmed in Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and the US. In… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Decimate originally came from a term for taxation, then became a word for killing one in ten people. That meaning has changed, but some people don't want to let go. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.This week a Canadian court has been considering a US application to extradite Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer of Chinese telecom giant Huawei (and daughter of its founder). Wanzhou was arrested… Read more Audio

11:38 AM.The Sámi are an indigenous people of northern Europe with a population of about 100,000 spread across Norway, Sweden and Finland into Northern Russia. Traditionally they were a nomadic people with an… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Bikram hot yoga has grown to be a global brand, with studios around the world and hundreds of teachers training each year under the guidance of its founder and guru Bikram Choudhury. Choudhury came to… Read more Audio

10:20 AM.Kiwi tech entrepreneur Josh Whale is building Africa's first electric motorbike business and an associated battery recharging network in Rwanda. Motorbikes are widely used as taxis throughout Africa… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Actor, comedy writer, and producer Amanda Lund provides a delicious pastiche of 1960s domestic life via the self-help advice of her audio alter-ego Marabel May in the The Complete Woman podcast. Now… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.How can we build up a more truthful picture of the world in the era of fake news, trolls, Trump and Putin? This is the question at the heart of Peter Pomerantsev's new book This is Not Propaganda… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Alongside thousands of Parisians, expat Aussie journalist Oliver Gee looked on with horror as the historic cathedral of Notre Dame burned in a huge fire in April this year. Over the past eight months… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.From pirates to people smugglers, enslaved crews and dodgy fishing practices, the world's oceans are home to widespread and largely unchecked illegality. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:30 AM.Self-described hippie Peter Butler helped set up HealthPost, a thriving Golden-Bay-based online natural product business. He's now on a mission to protect local wildlife. The focus of his efforts is a… Read more Audio, Gallery