Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:04 AM.‘Bionic leaf’ inventor and Harvard professor Daniel Nocera is driven to make cheap and plentiful energy, using sunlight, water and air. Read more Video, Audio

9:40 AM.Wellington-based scientist Richard Hall describes himself as a hunter, fisher, diver and writer. In his book, Dark Forest Deep Sea: Reflections of a hunter, Hall shares his insights into what he calls… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Michael Mann, the distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, is famous for his hockey stick curve showing sharply increasing global temperatures since 1900. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Watching students flee from a gunman at their school in Florida last week brought back painful memories for Austin Eubanks. Eubanks hid under a table in the school library in 1999 as two students… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Luke Willis Thompson's 35mm film autoportrait is a silent portrait of Diamond Reynolds. In July 2016, Reynolds used Facebook Live to broadcast the moments immediately after the fatal shooting of her… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Peter Hitchens is a British journalist and author and has written extensively on politics and social conservatism. He has long been an advocate for the UK leaving Europe but believes the current path… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.When American poet Patricia Lockwood wrote her memoir, Priestdaddy, of her tempestuous father who became a Catholic priest, she wanted "more than anything to be kind". Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Spanish ballet dancer Tamara Rojo is artistic director and a principal dancer at the English National Ballet which is bringing a new production of the classical ballet, Giselle, to Aotearoa. Rojo is… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Hamish Spencer is professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Otago. A geneticist interested in the history of eugenics, he has published more than 150 scientific articles, many… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Johann Hari is a Scottish-born, London-raised journalist, columnist and author. He has written for numerous outlets including The New York Times, Le Monde, and The Guardian. He was a columnist for the… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Warren Maxwell (Ngai Tuhoe) has written the score for Kupe, the NZ Festival opening night extravaganza on Wellington's waterfront. Performers, a mass choir and a thousand-strong haka will kick off the… Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.Max Patte is a British-born artist who has lived in Wellington for the past decade, and is about to return to the UK. One of his best known works is the Solace In The Wind sculpture on the capital… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.When Richard and Helen Dorresteyn started out in 2006 to establish a buffalo dairy farm it was an unprecedented venture. Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Shaun Bythell lives in Wigtown, Scotland, where he runs The Bookshop - the largest second hand bookshop in Scotland. It contains over 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving along twisting… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.We know movies aren't real but we buy into them more than we realise, US neuroscientist Professor Jeff Zacks has concluded, after studying how we observe the world around us. Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Brexit is a case of a "collective English mental breakdown", a Cambridge professor says. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Last year marked the 200th anniversary since James Parkinson (1755-1824) defined the disease now named after him. Parkinson's Disease is still diagnosed today by recognising the symptoms he… Read more Audio