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9:08 AM.Peter Conradi is a British author and the Europe editor for the Sunday Times of London. He was co-author, with Mark Logue, of The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy, which told the… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Tree climbing is a spectator sport and New Zealanders are world-class at it, so if you're in Dunedin next weekend get along to the national tree climbing champs, says Zane Wedding (Ngāti Kuri, Ngāti… Read more Video, Audio

8:12 AM.NZ children's writer Diana Noonan says Daulatdia, in Bangladesh, is no ordinary slum. Inside this purpose-built brothel, one of the largest in the world, she says you are as far from joy as it is… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:04 AM.Damien Dempsey is an Irish singer and songwriter who is coming to Aotearoa next month for the first NZ Irish Festival. His first album, They Don't Teach This Shit in School, was released in 2000. In… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Professor Anthony Aguirre received his doctorate from Harvard University then spent three years as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before joining the University of… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Penny Junor is a journalist and author who has written several controversial biographies of members of the British royal family. She is the daughter of Sir John Junor, long-standing editor of the… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.There are two weeks to go until midterm elections in the US - a particularly important event that will either entrench the power of President Donald Trump, or provide a break on his plans. There are… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.British-Jamaican Raymond Antrobus is a spoken word poet and social commentator who was diagnosed with deafness at the age of six. He is the author of three poetry collections - Shapes &amp… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Tim Chapman is from Northern Ireland, where he works in the area of restorative justice in the community and in prisons. He was employed by the probation service for 25 years and is now teaching a… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Peta Siulepa is about to present her fifth Samoana Jazz and Arts Festival in both Apia, Samoa and PagoPago, American Samoa. This year the festival focus is a tribute to Samoan New Zealander and Grammy… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Zoya Patel is a Fijian-Indian, who came to Australia when she was three - a heritage which has left her with a sense of not really belonging anywhere. She describes this estrangement as "a hyphenated… Read more Audio

10:34 AM.When Anna Serner became the CEO of the Swedish Film Institute six years ago, she set down a target that half of all Swedish films should be written, directed and produced by women, within four years… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Richard Roberts took over as Dunedin International Airport CEO in 2014 and he's credited with an impressive increase in both passengers and revenue in the time that he's been in charge. Earlier this… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.The late Stephen Hawking was an acclaimed theoretical physicist and considered to be one of the world's greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Auckland-based Joanne Drayton is author of New York Times bestseller The Search for Anne Perry (2014), which was a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards 2013 and the subject of a 60 Minutes… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Eric Idle is a comedian, actor, writer and musician, most notable for his membership of the Monty Python comedy troupe. His career in comedy began in earnest in 1968 when he began writing and acting… Read more Audio

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

11:38 AM.Kate De Goldi joins Kim to discuss the children's books that have been branded racist or sexist since they were first published, and have become controversial in the modern day - among the authors are… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Author, scientist, explorer and conservationist, Professor Tim Flannery has turned his attention to Europe in his latest book, Europe: A Natural History. It's a story of huge animals, shifting… Read more Audio

10:32 AM.New Zealand journalist and award-winning author Maurice Shadbolt believed New Zealanders should tell their own stories - and now his story is being told in Life as a Novel: A biography of Maurice… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.India is now the fastest-growing major economy in the world. Shivshankar Menon joins Kim to discuss geopolitics, shifting philosophies and alliances, and the global players he describes as "the new… Read more Audio

9:28 AM.In the wild 1970s, Robin Green was the only woman writing for Rolling Stone magazine and she has recently published a funny, candid, tell-all memoir - The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Doireann Ní Ghríofa writes prose and poetry, in both Irish and English. She works on cross-disciplinary collaborations, fusing poetry with film, dance, music, and visual art. Born in Galway in 1981… Read more Audio