Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:04 AM.Writer and reviewer Kate De Goldi and literary festival director Laura Kroetsch talk with Kim Hill about their favourite and most memorable reads of the year. Read more Audio

10:20 AM.Dr Mike Murphy is one of the world's leading scientists in mitochondrial research. Originally from Ireland, he is nowadays the programme leader at the Mitochondrial Biology Unit at Cambridge… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Debs Martin has been the regional manager for Forest & Bird in the top of the South Island since 2004. In recent years she has helped develop several biodiversity strategies for the region - and is… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Australian food writer, author and TV personality Matt Preston is a familiar face to Kiwi fans of MasterChef Australia. He is one of the show's three judges and is known for his cravats and colourful… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Professor Mohamad Abdalla is one of Australia's most prominent Muslim leaders. Over the last 15 years, he played a leading role in establishing Islamic Studies (Research and Teaching) as an academic… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Novelist, short story writer and essayist, Paula Morris (Ngati Wai, Ngati Whatua) is the 2018 Katherine Mansfield Fellow, announced by the Arts Foundation this week. She will spend at least four… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Anne Perkins is a political commentator, writer and broadcaster, and the former deputy political editor of The Guardian. She will talk to Kim about a week in which it was revealed British PM Theresa… Read more Audio

11:41 AM.Graeme Cairns is Laird of Hamilton, a title associated with the Clan McGillicuddy, of which he is chief. He founded the Clan's political arm, the McGillicuddy Serious Party (campaign plank: 'The Great… Read more Audio

11:15 AM.Experimental performance artist Kalisolaite 'Uhila was born in Tonga and lives in Auckland. His work was first noticed widely in 2014 when he was a Walters Prize finalist with his live performance… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:41 AM.Dr Doug Wilson has a medical degree from New Zealand, a PhD from the University of London and has pursued postgraduate work and medical research globally. He currently consults and acts as the chief… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Sally Magnusson is a Scottish journalist, broadcaster and writer. She grew up in Glasgow, the eldest daughter of the Icelandic journalist and broadcaster Magnus Magnusson and the Scottish newspaper… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.David Grann is the staff writer at The New Yorker and an acclaimed author. His stories have appeared in several anthologies and he's written for a raft of other magazines including the New York Times… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Damon Kitney has spent more than two decades in financial journalism, including 16 years at the Australian Financial Review, five years of that as deputy editor. Since 2010 he has been the Victorian… Read more Audio

11:40 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

11:04 AM.After multiple miscarriages and the deaths of both her mother and a close friend, Tammy Robinson became determined to live out her dream of writing books and getting published. "It propelled me. It… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Membership of the independence group Yes California increased by 400 per cent in the wake of Donald Trump's election. Marcus Ruiz Evans is head of Yes California - the largest of several groups… Read more Audio

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