Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

11:35 AM.Sami Sister and Trip Pony performer Priya Sami took a life-changing journey to India, her father's homeland, to trace her roots through traditional Indian song. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Harry Ricketts is Professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University, where he teaches literature and creative writing. He has convened the Creative Nonfiction… Read more Audio

10:36 AM.Auckland-based best friends and actors Saraid Cameron and Amelia Reynolds have devised, written and are about to perform a work called Cult Show: The Revitalisation of the New Zealand Women's… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Louise Aitken is chief executive of the Akina Foundation, which aims to develop and support social enterprises - businesses that work to improve social wellbeing, environmental sustainability, and… Read more Audio

9:36 AM.Dr Nicola Gaston is the new co-director of the MacDiarmid Institute and an associate professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland. Gaston was a senior lecturer in the School of… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Fine art photographer David Yarrow has an eye for wildlife, indigenous communities and landscapes. He exhibits around the world and his images are highly prized - his photograph 78 Degrees North was… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:40 AM.The plight of Tonga's LGBT community is under the spotlight with the released of a new documentary Leitis in Waiting. The film follows the life of transgender Tongan Joey / Joleen Mataele, who, along… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Irish senator Ivana Bacik has had a busy week, canvassing and leafleting in favour of the vote to repeal the country's Eighth Amendment - the law that prevents legal abortion in Ireland. It is a fight… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Listener Feedback for 19 May 2018. Audio

11:40 AM.With music that has variously been described as 'southern gothic', 'swamp folk' and 'psychedelic country', songwriter Bernie Griffen is an iconic figure in the local scene. He and partner Kirsten… Read more Video, Audio

11:04 AM.Taranaki-based Elizabeth Smither is a poet, novelist and short story writer and she has published several works in each genre. She has received several awards, including being named the 2002 Te Mata… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Taupo-based Dr Doug Wilson is the chief medical officer for Ferghana Partners Group. At the age of 70, Wilson, who is dyslexic, began a new career as an author. After writing nine books for children… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgård came to the attention of the literary world with six autobiographical novels based on family life, collectively called My Struggle (Min Kamp). The series was the… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Australian David Elliot-Smith is a writer and filmaker. His first documentary, Convenient Education (2012), looked at the downside of a push in the early 2000s to grow the education-migration market… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Born in Gaza and raised in Al Nuseirat Refugee Camp, Dr Ramzy Baroud is a US-Arab journalist, media consultant, author and editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is a non-resident scholar at Orfalea… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.In 1976, the first prime time drama series to be independently produced in NZ, Winners and Losers, made its debut, featuring seven short story adaptations from some of NZ's finest writers including… Read more Audio

11:43 AM.Kate Camp is the author of six collections of poetry published by Victoria University Press, the most recent of which is The internet of things (2017). She's won the New Zealand Book Award for The… Read more Audio

11:32 AM.Coronation Street fans were shocked at this week's news that next month the soap watched by generations of Kiwis is taking a great leap forward - a leap of 18 months in fact, so viewers in Aotearoa… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Sculptor Fred Graham (Ngati Koroki Kahukura, Tainui), aged 89, has gained another prestigious prize, being named this week as a recipient of an Arts Foundation Icon Award. Many of his works can be… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Emma Jameson is an assistant curator of historic international and New Zealand Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She has curated the exhibition 'First Impressions: 19th-century… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Director Håvard Bustnes is a award-winning director and producer. He holds a degree in directing for television from the College of Film and TV at Lillehammer, Norway. His films have been selected to… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Monique Fiso's mission is to elevate Māori cuisine. After the success of Hiakai – her series of pop-up tent restaurants – Monique's first permanent restaurant opens in Wellington this year. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:07 AM.Arjan van der Boon suspected something was up ahead of the opening of the Abel Tasman exhibition at Foxton's Dutch Museum - so he got himself ready in a jacket and tie. It was still a huge surprise to… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.At the age of 76, US author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich questions whether death can, in fact, be postponed if we just work out, eat the right things and get enough tests done. Read more Audio