Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:12 AM.A man has been shot dead by police after several people were stabbed in an attack at London Bridge in the UK. The Met Police has declared the stabbing attack a terrorist incident. The suspect, who… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Doug Wilson is a medical academic, former pharmaceutical executive, writer and the author of Ageing For Beginners. He takes an active interest in how we age, and what people are doing about it. He… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Wendy S. Walters' early career majored on poetry but as her writing career continued she found herself getting drawn more and more towards non-fiction. Her 2015 collection Multiply/Divide: On the… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Nuclear Free. Ihumatao. Universal Suffrage...through history New Zealanders have been staunch about standing up for what they believe in. In Protest: Tautohetohe (Te Papa Press) curators Stephanie… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.She entered the popular imagination as the nameless 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets. But by all accounts, the poet, writer and teacher Emilia Bassano was a strong, passionate woman who deserved… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.The path to a vote over Bougainville's independence from Papua New Guinea has been bloody, long and circuitous. A brutal civil war through the Nineties on this group of islands some 700 kilometres… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.TV writer and producer Jenji Kohan is best known as the creator of the hit series Orange Is The New Black. Kim Hill caught up with her while she was in NZ to speak at a screen conference. Read more Video, Audio

8:12 AM.We don't remember their names, sometimes we don't even know they existed, but whistleblowers have exposed some of the biggest scandals in history.  Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Expat urban designer Skye Duncan landed a top job in New York working for Michael Bloomberg on one of his philanthropic projects. As Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative at the National… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.In 2017, investigative reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey broke the story of American film producer Harvey Weinstein's decades of alleged sexual abuse - and helped to ignite the #MeToo… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Denise Clifton is a mounted archer and medievalist. She took up her passion 20 years ago and has been shooting arrows from horseback and mastering the Parthian shot (firing backwards from the saddle… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Is Colin McCahon our country's most important artist? Justin Paton thinks so. Paton is Head Curator of International Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, an active art critic, and author of… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Dr Alexander Gerst aka "Astro Alex" has spent almost a year in space, having completed two missions on the International Space Station (I.S.S.). The European Space Agency astronaut launched on a Soyuz… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:25 AM.Anna Delvey was an ambitious young German heiress, living the high life in New York City. That's what it looked like from the outside, and what those nearest and dearest to her thought. In fact she… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.The South American nation of Bolivia is in a state of chaos following a general election on October 20 2019. Evo Morales, the country's first indigenous president, who has been in power since 2006… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.A new book tells the story of Aotearoa New Zealand through the maps that guided our first inhabitants and the explorers and settlers that followed. Singing the Trail digs back into the history of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:07 AM.Alice Cooper was originally the name of a band. Then singer and harmonica player Vincent Damon Furnier took the name for himself and went solo. In the Seventies he became a bona fide rock legend and… Read more Video, Audio

10:43 AM.Becky Bateman is an astro-tourism operator involved in plans to turn Wairarapa into New Zealand's second dark sky reserve after the Aoraki Mackenzie Dark Sky Reserve, and alongside dark sky… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Dr John Peterson 'Pete' Myers is a US environmental scientist acknowledged as a pioneer of research looking at how plastics in food packaging and in the environment could be affecting health. He's the… Read more Audio

9:43 AM.Trans-national arranged marriage has been in the news this week with debate over immigration policy and recent comments from New Zealand First MP Shane Jones. Many community leaders have defended the… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Red Hot Chili Peppers' co-founder and bassist Flea (aka Michael Balzary) talks to Kim Hill about love, drugs, friendship, healing and Acid For The Children – a searingly honest memoir about his… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.The Guardian's health editor Sarah Boseley's campaign to highlight the plight of child labourers working in the tobacco industry in Malawi has prompted human rights lawyers working for UK law firm… Read more Audio