Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:12 AM.An impeachment inquiry is underway in the United States after ongoing concerns were raised about a potential "coverup" of alleged interaction between President Trump and the Ukrainian… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Like many young New Zealanders, aspiring architect Pete Bossley jumped on a plane and headed off for a year or two of travel. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:04 AM.The Australian scientist, writer, explorer and environmental activist Tim Flannery is passionate about climate change, and how to stop it. But he's fed up of the disconnect between the politicians'… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.He's become the academic poster boy of the intermittent fasting movement. Professor Valter Longo's work on how the human body behaves when we deprive it of energy has inspired a range of diet books… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Novelist, travel writer and academic, Sarah Moss is earning rave reviews for her latest novel Ghost Wall. It's been described as a Brexit-inspired parable, populated by characters plotting a path… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The English singer-songwriter Lloyd Cole came to fame in the 1980s with his band The Commotions, releasing a string of catchy, crafted hits like Perfect Skin, Rattlesnakes and Lost Weekend. Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Professor Nicholas Wareham is a British epidemiologist from the University of Cambridge who researches obesity, diabetes, and other metabolic disorders. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.A new interstellar comet some 20 kilometres wide and trailing gas has recently been spotted entering our solar system. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Data scientist Hadley Wickham is developing open source ways to help people collect and analyse the information that surrounds us every day. He's yet to meet a data set he doesn't like and loves… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.In 'Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica' science journalist Rebecca Priestley tells the story of her visits to the 'wide white continent' that started in 2011. With a lifelong interest in the place, a… Read more Audio

10:33 AM.Best selling Scottish crime writer Val McDermid has sold more than 15 million copies of her work worldwide. She's arrived in New Zealand to take up a role as a visiting Professor of Scottish Studies… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Australian Alison Bell is the co-creator and star (as frequently frazzled new mum Audrey) of The Letdown, an ABC/Netflix TV comedy which has hit a cultural nerve by showing the very dark and humourous… Read more Audio

9:43 AM.Lila Madden, a Year 13 student from Cashmere High School in Christchurch, has become the latest premier award winner at The Sir Paul Callaghan Eureka! Awards. The competition, which has been running… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Deborah Small is a lawyer and social justice activist fighting back against the inequities of the US government's so-called 'war on drugs'. She is the Executive Director of Break the Chains (USA) an… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.The first reading of the Rua Kenana Pardon Bill was passed in parliament this week, with his descendants looking on from the public gallery. His great great grandson Nika Rua was there. He's the… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:12 AM.There are mounting concerns about the safety of vaping after the US government's move to ban the sale of flavoured e-cigarettes. The measure comes after 6 deaths in the US were linked to respiratory… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Director and actor Sima Urale has just been announced as a 2019 Arts Foundation Laureate. Her work combines Samoan and urban New Zealand perspectives to tell Pacific stories. As the first female… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.At a music festival in England, Gina Martin caught someone taking photos up her skirt. Despite complaining to security and the police, the perpetrator walked free, as legally he hadn't done anything… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.David Spiegelhalter has built a career sorting the lies from the statistics. In his new book The Art of Statistics the Cambridge Professor shares his passion for data, scientific evidence and risk… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Brazilian David Schurmann jumped ship in New Zealand at age 16 while his family were sailing round the world and ended up staying for six years, studying filmmaking and working as a TV director. Now… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.American writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner has profiled an amazing range of celebrities – and is best known for her deep dive into the Goopy world of Gwyneth Paltrow. She talks to Kim Hill about celebrity… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.An ageing and growing population means the number of New Zealanders diagnosed with cancer is predicted to double by 2040. This is just one of the challenges facing University of Otago epidemiologist… Read more Audio