Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:35 AM.In 2008 Dot Kettle and her partner Georgia Richards ditched their Wellington city jobs for a 42ha property in the Dove Valley in the Tasman region, and began growing peonies. Their business has… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Former refugee Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran in 1978 and raised in the Greater Los Angeles area. Her debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects (2007) was a New York Times Editor's Choice… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.English writer Oobah Butler shot to infamy last year after he managed to turn the garden shed he lived in into TripAdvisor's top-rated London restaurant – by creating a fake website and getting his… Read more Video, Audio

8:12 AM.In 2004 former nun Monica Hingston took a stand against her second cousin Cardinal George Pell, by making public a letter urging him to reconsider his support of the Vatican's declaration that… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:04 AM.Gretchen Albrecht is one of New Zealand's most prominent painters. A forerunner of the women's art movement, Albrecht's work of the 1960s and 70s anticipated key aspects of feminist art practice. Art… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:40 AM.To 'look' like a skater is still a badge of honour even for a "grey-haired dad with a bad knee", says writer and skateboarder Max Olijnyk. He tells Kim Hill why, in his 40s, he's still completely… Read more Video, Audio

10:04 AM.Maria Tumarkin is an Australian author, cultural historian and professor of writing at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of four critically-acclaimed books of ideas including Otherland… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Ella Al-Shamahi is an archaeologist, palaeoanthropologist and Neanderthal specialist, and also a stand-up comic. She almost exclusively works "in places hard to get insurance" including Iraq and… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Novelist, playwright and opera director, Jenny Erpenbeck is one of Europe's major literary voices. Born in East Berlin in 1967, she is the author of seven works of fiction, including The Book of Words… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Dr Vaughan C. Turekian is the Executive Director of the Policy and Global Affairs Division (PGA) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. He also serves as an honorary… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Kate Camp is the author of six collections of poetry published by Victoria University Press, the most recent of which is The internet of things (2017). She's won the New Zealand Book Award for The… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Luke Wright is a poet, performer, publisher, curator and broadcaster. He has written and performed nine spoken word shows and two verse plays, including The Toll, Frankie Vah, and What I Learned from… Read more Video, Audio

10:40 AM.Many years ago, a 13-year-old girl went missing in California. In the early 2000s, a woman turned up claiming to be her.  Right away there were things about the woman and her story seemed off. To help… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.The exhibition From the Shore considers the influence of Māori filmmakers Barry Barclay and Merata Mita on a current generation of artists, specifically those working with moving image.  Read more Audio, Gallery

9:25 AM.British author Sarah Perry has followed up her number-one bestseller The Essex Serpent ​with a novel called Melmoth. She talks to Kim Hill about faith, illness, moral courage and her taste for the… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Norah Jones first emerged on the world stage with the 2002 release of Come Away With Me. Since then, Jones has sold 50 million albums worldwide and become a nine-time Grammy-winner. She's released a… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Margaret Long developed a life-changing passion for gardening 30 years ago after a garden tour of the UK, followed by numerous local visits and the development of her own garden in Canterbury, known… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:12 AM.Twenty-five years ago, a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi was shot down over an airport in Rwanda. The event marked the beginning of a genocide in which an estimated one million… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Caroline Easther spins a few of her favourite tunes and talks to Kim Hill about her new album, Lucky. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Renee Liang is a second-generation Chinese Kiwi poet, playwright, paediatrician, medical researcher and fiction writer, who was appointed a Member of the NZ Order of Merit for services to the arts… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Canadian Writer and academic David Chariandy has written two critically received novels. Brother, published in 2017, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction prize, the Toronto Book Award and was named a… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.Tour manager Ian Jorgensen has put together the intimate photographs he took on the tour of the Finns, their crew and the communities they visited in the book Where's My Room: The Neil and Liam Finn… Read more Video, Audio

9:06 AM.'Slutty' is a word that’s historically been used as an insult, but self-styled 'sexpert' Karley Sciortino wants to reclaim it. Sciortino fronts the VICE TV series Slutever, which the New York Times… Read more Audio