Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:10 AM.Drug overdose is now the most common cause of death for Americans under 50, with nearly 50,000 people dying each year after taking opioids. Pulitzer-prize winning Washington Post journalist Scott… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Craig Potton is an acclaimed landscape photographer, conservationist, traveller and publisher. He is also the Chair of the Nelson Suter Art Gallery. He is currently working on two books, one taking a… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:30 AM.Sophisticated digital imaging technology is being used to create 'Deep Fakes'; images and videos that are indistinguishable from reality. Things have moved on from celebrity faces being superimposed… Read more Video, Audio

10:05 AM.29 year old Tangaroa Walker is an award winning Southland contract milker who's evangelical about the joys of rural life. On his increasingly popular Facebook page Farm 4 Life he posts videos of daily… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.He's designed bald patch detectors, giant chairs, shoes that let you walk on water, flying machines, and amphibious cars. But Keith Alexander is best known for his invention of the Springfree… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:30 AM.Salman Rushdie was catapulted to literary fame when his second novel Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981.His controversial 1988 book, The Satanic Verses, inspired in part by the life of… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.What can Greenland's vast ice sheet tell us about the health of the world's glaciers? Glaciologist and climate scientist Ruth Mottram works for the Danish Meteorological Institute in Copenhagen where… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Poet and writer Kate Camp is in to talk about Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, the 1977 novel by the renowned American author who died earlier this month. The book won the National Book Critics… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Penguin expert Pablo Garcia Borboroglu is the founder and President of the Global Penguin Society, a science-based conservation coalition which has helped protect 32 million acres of habitat and taken… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Celebrated New Zealand writer Janet Frame's work has never been adapted for the stage. That's about to change with a play based on her iconic novel Owls Do Cry set to premiere in her childhood… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:12 AM.Kevin Briggs is a former highway patrol officer whose intervention has prevented hundreds of people from taking their lives by jumping from San Francisco's most famous bridge. Kim asked the… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.The Dunedin-based poet, writer and critic David Eggleton has just been appointed as New Zealand's next poet laureate, a position he will hold until 2021. Coming to prominence as a performance poet and… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Science alone can't save the planet, according to Oxford ethnobiologist and ordained Anglican minister Andy Gosler. Conservation requires more connection and understanding between people of different… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Journalist Sheila Coronel has been investigating thousands of extra-judicial killings in the Phillipines conducted under the guise of president Rodrigo Duterte's 'war on drugs'. Other countries are… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.This week Corrections announced a new tikanga based strategy with the aim of reducing the Maori prison population from 52% to 16%. Criminal lawyer and youth justice advocate Kingi Snelgar thinks that… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Brewer Pete Gillespie set up the Garage Project brewery in Wellington in 2011, following stints working at breweries in England and at the Malt Shovel in Sydney. At the time it opened it was the only… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.A new exhibition at Wellington's City Gallery uses art to explore the many ways we're being eavesdropped on. The show examines the diverse technologies and contexts involved (including political… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.The sustainable shoe company Allbirds opened its first Auckland store this week, giving New Zealanders an opportunity to try on "the world's most comfortable shoe" (according to Time Magazine). Former… Read more Audio

9:46 AM.Fabian Wosar of NZ business Emsisoft is a renowned ransomware expert, helping schools, charities, businesses and individuals deal with the multi billion dollar problem. This malicious code is… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.English writer Jane Austen was the author of 6 major novels including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. In the nineteenth century, inexpensive editions of her books… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.In 2016, Pakistan was rocked by the murder of its first internet celebrity Qandeel Baloch, who had been dubbed the country's Kim Kardashian. She selfied her way to social media stardom but faced… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.New antibody based treatments with a success rate of up to 90% are set to become a game-changer in the fight against the deadly viral disease Ebola. A recent outbreak in the Democratic Republic of… Read more Audio