Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:35 AM.Last weekend was exciting for fans of distance running. Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge broke the "unbreakable" two-hour marathon barrier and compatriot Brigid Kosgei smashed a 16 year old women's… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.British MPs vote tomorrow (Saturday UK time) on the amended Brexit deal that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has negotiated with the European Union. Meanwhile, the former Labour Party press secretary… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.The wealth of new research about the science of ageing should help improve care for older people but is there a danger in over medicalising a natural process? Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Mike White is well known for his hard hitting investigative crime and justice journalism including coverage of Mark Lundy, Scott Watson, and the murder of Scott Guy. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.As the granddaughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, Megan Phelps-Roper grew up believing that God hates gay people. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Musician, artist, and author Kim Gordon has released her first solo album No Home Record eight years after the end of her band Sonic Youth and her 27 year marriage to bandmate Thurston Moore. Read more Video, Audio

9:05 AM.Author and New York University professor Zadie Smith has just released Grand Union, her first collection of short fiction. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Ecological economist Marjan Van Den Belt is excited about the environmental and financial opportunities large scale seaweed farming could bring to New Zealand. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Turkish forces have entered Kurdish-held areas of northern Syria in response to a US military withrawal from the region. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Musician, CEO of the Play it Strange Trust and former Split Enz guitarist Mike Chunn has a new memoir A Sharp Left Turn. He'll share some of his favourite songs with Kim. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island in Lyttelton Harbour was the site of New Zealand's only leprosy colony. The fate of those who ended up on the Island was grim, with a lack of care and reports of… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Monogamy isn't necessarily the most important aspect of a marriage, according to John Oh – a sex worker based in Sydney. Among his clients are women who want to have sex outside marriage without… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.The Manus Recording Project Collective's work how are you today? is a collaboration between six men detained on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Australian radio-makers Michael Green and Jon Tjhia… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.20 years ago Stephen Chbosky wrote the best selling novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Since then he's been writing and directing films with credits including the movie of his own novel, a live… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Melissa Anelli is the author of the New York Times bestseller Harry, A History, which chronicles the Harry Potter phenomenon, the webmistress of The Leaky Cauldron fansite, and a host of the… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.New Zealand protest group Halt All Racist Tours (HART) formed in 1969 to protest against sporting contact with apartheid South Africa. In 1981 the issue of whether the All Blacks should play the… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:43 AM.Author, artist, poet Gregory O'Brien has always been enchanted by water, and in particular the role it plays in the lives and imaginations of New Zealanders. Hs new book Always Song In Water explores… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Elliot Higgins is the founder of investigative journalism website Bellingcat which specializes in fact-checking and open-source intelligence gathered from social media. The site has grown from a 2012… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.From the slums of Havana to the world's greatest stages, acclaimed ballet dancer and choreographer Carlos Acosta has led an extraordinary life. He has danced with the English National Ballet, National… Read more Video, Audio

10:06 AM.When female led and focused film Thelma & Louise came out in 1991, actress Geena Davis hoped that it marked a shift towards gender equality in Hollywood. But by 2004 the Academy award winner had… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Nature and travel writer Robert Macfarlane grew up in coal country, just next to limestone country. What was underground defined what was up above for him from a very young age. His new book Underland… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.For most of us, device overuse does not meet all of the above conditions so does not qualify as an addiction, according to behavioural sociologist Nir Eyal. He tells Kim Hil the myth that we're all… Read more Audio