Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:04 AM.This week the first 100 issues of local music magazine Rip It Up went live in digitised form at the the National Library's Papers Past website. It's the first time Papers Past has digitised a… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Retired psychology professor Glynn Owens – aka 'The Prince' – is one of the top five amateur pole dancers in New Zealand. Read more Video, Audio

8:15 AM.Josh Gerstein is senior legal affairs contributor for Politico. This week he has reported on the case of Leonidas Bimenyimana and Gregoire Nyaminani, two Rwandan men who, along with a third, Francois… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Alison Stringer works a government job by day, and is a scientist and lifelong forager. A trained mycologist (fungi expert), she undertook graduate studies in Dr Ian Hall's edible ecomycorrhizal fungi… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:04 AM.Cliff Curtis is one of New Zealand's most well known actors. His local successes include Once Were Warriors and Whale Riders and he has also had roles in international films including Last Nights and… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist Dustin Lance Black has recently written a memoir about his upbringing called Mama's Boy, which describes growing up… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Professor Bryony James received her undergraduate degree in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Bath, England in 1993 and my PhD in Materials Engineering at the University of… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.The Wilco frontman and author of the 2018 memoir Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) speaks to Kim Hill ahead of his visit to the Auckland Writers Festival. Read more Video, Audio

8:09 AM.Middle distance runner and two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya has lost her battle against International Association of Athletics (IAAF) regulations that exclude her, and others, from competing… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Dunedin music icon Shayne Carter talks to Kim Hill about his upcoming book Dead People I Have Known. Carter began playing music as a teenager at Kaikorai Valley High School and he's been a member… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:38 AM.Dr Rochelle Constantine is an Associate Professor in biological sciences and marine science at the University of Auckland. Her most recent multi-disciplinary, collaborative project is focused on The… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Mary earned her Master's degree in Art History and Italian at the University of… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:35 AM.Dr Helen Jacobi was appointed the first female Vicar of Auckland's St Matthew in the City in 2014. In 2019, she will host the annual International Network of Inner City Churches 2019 Meeting, an event… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Anne Michaels is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries. Her books have garnered dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize, the… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.One of the world’s most famous yoga masters was to some a beloved teacher and a guide to enlightenment. To others, he was a sexual predator and a bully. Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Illinois-born Dr Dean Peterson joined Te Papa in 2016 and has spent three years developing the museum's largest redevelopment since it opened - Te Taiao Nature exhibition space, which will be open to… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.In the middle of Glastonbury sat an event so opulent and extravagant that it was reminiscent of the Las Vegas Strip. It was butterfly trainers, acrobatic strippers and Fat Boy Slim dressed as a bumble… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Dr Lisa Sanders is an internist on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine where she teaches topics related to clinical reasoning and diagnosis to both medical students and residents. Sanders… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Paul Hunt became New Zealand's Chief Human Rights Commissioner in January. He is a human rights advocate, lawyer and academic who has lived and worked in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the South… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Artemis Cooper is the author and co-editor of a wide of non-fiction titles including three major biographies: on the author, scholar and adventurer Patrick Leigh Fermor, novelist and wife of Sir… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.In the wake of the Mueller Report, an "impeachment enquiry" into American president Donald Trump is the wisest course of action, according to political columnist and author Jonathan… Read more Audio