Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:05 AM.Javier Pena and Steve Murphy are agents for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). In the 1990s, the pair volunteered for an assignment in Bogota, Colombia, and set out to bring down the… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Joanne Pirrie is performing at WOMAD 2019 as part of POP-UP Duets (fragments of love) with Edinborough dance company Janis Claxton Dance. Kim Hill spoke to her ahead of her visit. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

9:09 AM.Professor Sir Malcolm Grant CBE, was born in Oamaru and graduated from the University of Otago Law School. He left Aotearoa in 1972 for a career in the UK. He has recently stepped down after seven… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Elon Musk is unusual, difficult and vindictive - but he and his company Tesla have achieved amazing things, former insider and New Zealander Hamish McKenzie says. A former writer for Tesla, McKenzie… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Sarah Ross is an associate professor in English at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research focuses on the writing of women in the Renaissance and early modern period, and especially on the… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Solving the crisis of compassion in New Zealand medicine will require changes to the system, although mindfulness can also help, says one of the organisers of the country's first compassion in… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Elizabeth Denham is the UK Information Commissioner and lead the raid on Cambridge Analytica in March this year. She gained a warrant to search the London-based data analytics company's records over… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash was born in 1955, the oldest of four children to legendary country musician Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian Liberto. She released her first album in 1978 in… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.The former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, has turned her energy to the fight against climate change. She has set up The Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice which focuses on the struggle… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Cissy Rock is the president of the Auckland Pride Board, which has found itself in the headlines recently after opting to ban police wearing their uniforms at next year's Pride parade, saying certain… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Dr Jeffrey Ross is the Medical Director for Foundation Medicine, Inc in Cambridge, US. He is a leader in the field of molecular diagnostics, having received a number of academic awards, been awarded… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Steve Braunias is an author, journalist, critic and publisher. He has served as the poetry editor for The Spinoff for four years, and is about to step aside from that role. Before doing so, he has… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Back in 2013, Englishman Ben Branson came across a 17th-century book called The Art of Distillation and started playing around with a copper still in his kitchen. Two years later, he launched Seedlip… Read more Audio

10:42 AM.Mary Kisler is the senior curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She has spent much of 2018 researching not one but two books on Frances Hodgkins… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:02 AM.Peter FitzSimons is Australia's best-selling non-fiction writer, and for the past 30 years has also been a journalist and columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun Herald. He is the author… Read more Audio

9:42 AM.Tim Bale is a professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London. He will talk to Kim about a week of major developments in the long-running Brexit saga, including an ostensible backing of… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Kerry-Anne Walsh was in the Canberra press gallery for 25 years, occupying senior posts in print, radio, and TV. She has now left reporting to write books and consult. Her latest book, Hoodwinked: How… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Damian Skinner is an art historian, writer and former museum curator. He is interested in the history of cultural contact between Maori and Pakeha and the relationship between art and politics in… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:04 AM.Singer/songwriter Angélique Kidjo is from Benin in West Africa. She's known for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Her latest project is a reimagination of Talking Heads' 1980… Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.Twenty-two-year-old Logan Williams (Ngai Tahu) is an inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator, and the chief executive and founder of Biome Innovation Ltd. Growing up in Timaru, he saw firsthand the… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Jeremy Salmond has just received the 2018 New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) Gold Medal in recognition of an outstanding career in heritage and conservation architecture. He was the founding… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.Arthur Tompkins is a trustee of the NZ Art Crime Research Trust and a District Court Judge in Wellington. Each year for nearly a decade he has abandoned a New Zealand winter to teach Art in War in… Read more Audio