Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:10 AM.British neurosurgeon Professor Steven Gill is trying to halt, or even reverse, the development of the progressive neurological condition Parkinson's with an experimental drug: GDNF. Medical trials for… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Artist Louise Henderson (1902-1994) worked alongside major New Zealand art figures including Rita Angus, John Weeks, Colin McCahon and Milan Mrkusich and developed a bold, colourful and distinctive… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Australian cannabis agronomist and Churchill Fellow Tom Forrest has recently visited 50 commercial growing operations around the world, including ones in Canada, Europe, Slovenia and Israel. With… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:06 AM.Across a 30 year writing career, Scottish historian, broadcaster and critic William Dalrymple has been preoccupied with the history and culture of India. It's the country he now calls home for half… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Jill Heinerth is a Canadian cave diver, underwater explorer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker. She is a veteran of over thirty years of filming, photography, and exploration on projects in… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Rural Kiwi characters rarely seen on-screen take centre stage in the new film Bellbird, directed by Northland primary school teacher Hamish Bennett.  Read more Video, Audio

8:35 AM.November 28th will be the 40th anniversary of the Erebus disaster which shook our nation and took 257 lives when an Air New Zealand sightseeing flight crashed into a mountain in Antarctica. A Royal… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.A new study indicates previous estimates of the global impact of sea level rise have been grossly understated. The research, published in the journal Nature Communications and conducted by the… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Poet and writer Kate Camp returns for the latest instalment of Kate's Klassics. This week she reviews Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann. The American writer's debut book became the biggest… Read more Video, Audio

11:08 AM.In its 15 year history the Fly My Pretties musical collective has staged incredible live performances, and released six best-selling live albums. Now they've released The Studio Recordings Part One… Read more Audio

10:37 AM.Stepping into a witness box to give evidence in court can be daunting and stressful, especially for young and vulnerable people. In several US states and in Canada the use of court dogs as support… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Australian author Christos Tsiolkas is best known for his fourth novel, The Slap, from 2009. This closely-observed portrait of simmering social tension won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was turned… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.New Zealand industry generates over 100,000 tonnes of food waste per year at the same time as many kiwi families are unable to afford and access good food. Deborah Manning saw an obvious solution to… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Almost a third of people diagnosed with clinical depression do not respond to medication or talk therapy. A potential treatment for this chronic or treatment-resistant depression is Repetitive… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Money is sometimes the only difference between eccentricity and madness, says Lady Anne Glenconner, who served as Princess Margaret's lady-in-waiting for over 30 years. Now 87, Lady Anne has written a… Read more Video, Audio

8:10 AM.Public health professor Thomas Novotny from San Diego State University's School of Public Health has just co-authored an editorial in The British Medical Journal calling for a ban on filtered… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.The Pastafarian faith claims 30 million devotees worldwide including over 4000 New Zealanders according to last year's census. The religion revolves around the idea that the world was created by a… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Scottish poet and writer Michael Pedersen co-runs and founded Neu! Reekie! a UK arts collective which produces shows all over the globe and hosts take-overs for National Galleries, National Museums… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Michael Connelly is a bestselling crime fiction writer whose 31 books have sold more than 60 million copies worldwide and been translated into 40 different languages. Since his first novel The Black… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Dr Matire Harwood (Ngapuhi) has devoted her medical career to issues relating to Maori health. She works as a GP in a busy medical centre in South Auckland, teaches at The University of Auckland's… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Beloved Scottish comedian, musician, actor and storyteller Billy Connolly retired from live stand-up comedy at the end of last year, as a result of the progress of Parkinson's disease, the… Read more Video, Audio