Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:10 AM.With a background in anthropology and population studies, Sarah Harper is Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford, a Fellow at University College, and the founding director of the Oxford… Read more Audio

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

11:06 AM.Musician, singer and songwriter Anika Moa has this week released her sixth studio album, a self-titled work, recorded in New Orleans with producer Brady Blade. Moa has been making music for 20 years… Read more Video, Audio

10:47 AM.Blockchain technology is set to transform business, Government and society, according to promoters of a conference in Auckland next week. Although many people associate blockchain with crypotcurrency… Read more Audio

10:15 AM.Wellington couple Mike Sansom and Cathy O'Callaghan recently spent three weeks on the Greek Island of Lesvos where they volunteered at refugee camps. Lesvos is temporary home to thousands of refugees… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Judge Brett Kavanaugh is poised to join the US Supreme Court after a key Republican senator announced her support for Donald Trump's nominee. The full US Senate will vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Boston-born David Shiner started his career as a street mime in Paris. He went on to perform with a succession of well-known companies, joining Cirque du Soleil in 1990, where his antics in the… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Queer performance artist Mika Haka went from being one of the few Māori at Timaru Boys High School to opening for Grace Jones in New York, and now runs a charitable foundation for talented young… Read more Video, Audio

8:13 AM.Ruth Busch was born in 1944 in the Bronx, New York, to Holocaust survivors. Training as a lawyer with an interest in civil rights, she moved to New Zealand in 1982 and shortly thereafter taught the… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.To the Sea is the first solo album for Harry Lyon - the co-founder, guitar player and songwriter with NZ Hall of Fame band Hello Sailor. His songwriting credits include 'Lying in the Sand' and 'Watch… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.In 1978 world-class motorcycle designer John Britten bought a derelict stable block in Christchurch and painstakingly converted it into a home where he raised his family and built his revolutionary… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.In her new book The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing, author Merve Emre looks at why the personality test and others like it remains so… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.After a gripping day of testimony yesterday from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and the woman accusing him of historic sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford, the Senate Judiciary Committee has… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Musician and social activist Billy Bragg released his first album, Life's a Riot, 35 years ago, containing seven songs recorded on a punk rock electric guitar. The album's sleeve bore the message 'Pay… Read more Video, Audio

8:09 AM.Jeanne Marie Laskas is the New York Times bestselling author of Concussion and her 2009 GQ article 'Game Brain' inspired the Golden Globe-nominated movie, Concussion, starring Will Smith and Alec… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.ESR's new chief scientist, Brett Cowan, has an honours degree in mechanical engineering as well as a medical degree. Last year, he graduated with an MBA from Auckland University - his youngest son… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.World of Wearable Art founder Dame Suzie Moncrieff is back in a driving role for the 30th anniversary show which opens in Wellington next week. She has taken a back seat for the past few years, but… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Christina Hoff Sommers is an author and philosopher famed for her critique of contemporary feminism. Sommers has penned books Who Stole Feminism? (1994) and The War Against Boys (2000), and also hosts… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World, recounts the true story of Jho Low, dubbed "the Malaysian Great Gatsby". Low, who is currently on the run, persuaded… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Mandy Whyte launched a rescue mission to save her son's life after discovering the extent of his methamphetamine addiction and how his drug use was leading him to permanent psychosis, prison, or… Read more Audio