Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:04 AM.A culinary school graduate, Sother Teague began his hospitality career in restaurant kitchens, then worked as a research and technical chef on the Food Network series, Good Eats. He subsequently moved… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Ines Moran is a PhD student in the Cain Lab at the University of Auckland, who researches dialects, vocal networks and vocal leaning (birdsong) in avian kinship groups. Her main area of study is the… Read more Video, Audio

10:04 AM.New Zealand's first tramping club, The Tararua Tramping Club celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. These days tramping is a mainstream leisure pursuit but In 1919 it was viewed as a very odd way… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:40 AM.Finn McCahon-Jones is is the grandson of one of New Zealand's most iconic painters, Colin McCahon. He recently began researching and writing about his grandfather's time as a curator at Auckland City… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:04 AM.A double album of Aretha Franklin's 1972 performance at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles became the highest-selling live gospel music recording of all time. It was also… Read more Video, Audio

8:12 AM.At the age of 19, Paul Wood was sentenced to life in prison for murder. Now he's a Doctor of Psychology, a development coach and the author of a new memoir How to Escape from Prison. He speaks to Kim… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Author and reviewer Kate Camp talks about James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk, the story of young black couple in Harlem in the 1970s whose lives are torn apart by a false criminal accusation… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Francis Ford Coppola is one of Hollywood's pre-eminent directors, producers and screenwriters. His first directorial success was Finian's Rainbow in 1968, and he was propelled to the top tier of… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Pieter Ten Hoopen has won the Spot New Stories category in this year's World Press Photo Exhibition with his photo story called The Migrant… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Julian Arahanga grew up in small town Raetihi. He's the half brother of actor Tammy Davis and the son of Sleeping Dogs producer Larry Parr. As an actor Arahanga is best known for playing Nig Heke in… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Hamilton-based Susan Murray has just retired after 21 years of co-hosting RNZ show Country Life. She recently won the 2019 Ravensdown Agricultural Communicator of the year award at the Mystery Creek… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Indian author Arundhati Roy is a vocal critic of Hindu-nationalism and recently re-elected prime minister Narendra Modi, who she says was re-elected after an "orgy of nationalism." Roy who catapulted… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Natalie Wynn aka ContraPoints, is a youtube video essayist and political philosopher who seeks to examine, counter and play with internet culture. Her videos, which have gathered over 8 million views… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Enda Walsh is a multi-award-winning Irish playwright. His work has been translated into over twenty languages and has been performed internationally since 1998. Walsh is the author of five Edinburgh… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Almudena Carracedo is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker. Born and raised in Madrid, she has built her career as an artist and filmmaker in the US. Her debut film Made in L.A, a feature-length… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.This week, a work of public art called Boy Walking has taken its place in Potters Park in the suburb of Mt Eden in Auckland. It was made by New Zealand-born, internationally-acclaimed artist Ronnie… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Over the past 90 years, Faber & Faber's authors have included William Golding, TS Eliot, WH Auden, Sylvia Plath, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Alan Bennett, PD James, John Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Former lawyer Elisha Watson first met refugee families as a volunteer. She bonded with some of the women over a shared love of sewing – then got the idea of creating an underwear company to employ… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Famously unafraid of awkward moments, and incurably curious, filmmaker Louis Theroux has been making BAFTA award winning documentaries for over twenty years. He has specialised in immersing himself in… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.On Tuesday June 11th, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra will be joined at the Civic Theatre in Auckland by Nadia Reid, Liam Finn and Anna Coddington for NZ Mix Tape. The event will see an orchestral… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Novelist, short story writer and essayist Paula Morris (Ngati Wai, Ngati Whatua) is this year's Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, allowing her to live for six months in Menton, in the south-east… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Ataahua Papa (Waikato, Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Koroki Kahukura) is Festival Director of this year's Matariki Festival in Auckland city, which is being celebrated between June 22nd to July 14th with a… Read more Audio

10:09 AM.Just over four percent of the films in Hollywood are directed by women - a number that hasn’t substantially changed in 20 years. Director and writer Amy Adrion wanted to find out why. Her debut… Read more Video, Audio