Saturday Morning Podcast Options

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

11:45 AM.Shane Hansen is an artist, and a furniture and fashion designer of Maori (Tainui, Ngati Mahanga, Ngati Hine), Chinese, Danish and Scottish descent. He draws on his cultural background and the… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Madeleine O'Dea has been a journalist, foreign correspondent and author for 30 years. She's written extensively on international arts and culture, as well as on Chinese politics, society, and culture… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Kurdish journalist, poet, filmmaker and refugee Behrouz Boochani has been imprisoned on Manus Island for almost five years. He has created a film entirely on his mobile phone from inside Australia's… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.New York-based soul singer, songwriter, and Broadway performer Morgan James is coming to Aotearoa this month to perform with the NZSO in its Bernstein at 100 concerts. As well as performing with… Read more Audio

9:43 AM.David Klein is a science communicator based in Wellington. Last summer he cycled around the country presenting Tour de Science - a show that explained how all the big things in the universe are made… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.New York-based Katy Tur is a correspondent for NBC News and an anchor for MSNBC. Tur visited 40 states with then-candidate Donald Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 US presidential election, making more… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Dr Simon Chaplin is director of culture and society at London's Wellcome Trust, the world's second largest non-governmental funder of medical research, and co-founder of the Human Genome Project… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Sian Davey is a photographer with a background in fine art and social policy. She has also run a private psychotherapy practice for the past 15 years. Her work has been included in the National… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.This week, local artist Luke Willis Thompson has been named as only the second-ever New Zealander to make the shortlist for the UK's Turner Prize, one of the world's most prestigious awards. The… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and a New York Times bestselling author. He heads the Center for Science and Law, a national non-profit institute, is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Science… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Thelonious Monk was a musical genius set back by mental health problems he could perhaps have been treated for today, says composer John Beasley. The big band MONK'estra will get experimental with… Read more Video, Audio

9:06 AM.David Goddard QC is the grants and scholarships committee chair of the Michael and Suzanne Borrin Foundation - established earlier this year through a $38 million bequest by the late Judge Ian Borrin… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Feminist author and academic Camille Paglia joins Kim to talk about her latest book - a collection of her essays on modern feminism called Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism. Paglia is the… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Andrew Withington is musical director and conductor of the New Zealand Secondary Students Choir - a 60-strong chorus of teenagers who work with top vocal and acting coaches and perform across the… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Mass whale strandings are relatively common in New Zealand, but we don't yet know enough about what happens to the marine mammals when we intervene, says Dr Karen Stockin from Massey University's… Read more Audio