Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:48 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

11:06 AM.Books have shaped Jo McColl's life. Raised in Wellington, where she studied the classics, and religious studies under Lloyd Geering, McColl got a job at Unity Books in the Capital straight from… Read more Audio

10:34 AM.Dr Andrew Das is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Free Radical Research in the Department of Pathology, University of Otago Christchurch (UOC). He graduated in medicine at the… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Dunedin-based artist Bruce Mahalski has provided commercial artwork, illustrations and cartoons to a range of outlets since the 1980s. An art teacher at Williams School of Art ('Inverlochy Art… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Dame Louise Casey is a Visiting Professor at King's College London and a guest lecturer at the London School of Economics. She has been a driving force in the establishment of the Institute for Global… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Balclutha-born Professor Robert Webster is a world-renowned virologist and international expert in influenza who was among the first scientists to acknowledge a link between human and avian flu. His… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.As Hurricane Florence hits land, millions of people in the US Carolinas have been evacuated from their homes as high winds and floods caused by rain and storm surges hit the area. Feature Story News… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Tandi Wright got her big break playing nurse Caroline Buxton on Shortland Street, she has gone on to a prolific and diverse acting career. Born in Zambia, Wright moved with her family to New Zealand… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Craig Callender is a Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego. Prior to that he worked in the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method… Read more Audio

10:44 AM.Richard Clayderman is a best selling recording artist and concert performer. Born Philippe Pagès in 1953, he was accepted at the Conservatoire of Music, but in his late teens cast aside his classical… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Aussie-based Kiwi Phil Barker is a commentator on the life and style of Australian men. His recent column for Fairfax's Executive Style website entitled 'There's a scientific reason why people can… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Expat New Zealander Amanda Jones live in California and is the co-founder of a company called Kikoko, which produces cannabis infused herbal teas with specific cannabinoid ratios to treat various… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Children who spend the bulk of their school day in front of a computer will too often end up physically unfit, depressed and low on social skills, political scientist and author Nicholas Tampio says… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Author, inventor, entrepreneur, and self-described "eternal optimist", Texas-based Byron Reese started his first business while an undergraduate. He later founded and sold two companies: Hot Data… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Jim talks to Studebaker enthusiast John Everiss to mark International Drive Your Studebaker Day. To the Otaki-based owner of the country's first and possibly only Studebaker museum, the car, an… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Social services in New Zealand are an antiquated relic of the British Empire and have failed to serve Māori for the past 60 years, but hope can be found in community-led services, former Labour MP… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.An audacious idea was hatched 18 months ago in Nelson, when city chiefs and private sector heads got together to bid for the first home All Blacks test of 2018. With a stadium that only seated 7,000… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Dudley Benson is a self-described 'avant-pop artist' based in Dunedin. His third critically acclaimed album is Zealandia.  The starting point for the album was the recent discovery that Aotearoa is… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.US author, activist and award-winning performance poet, Sonya Renee Taylor, is the founder and radical executive officer of The Body is Not An Apology - a digital media and education company promoting… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.The exhibition, Euan Macleod: Painter, has been touring Aotearoa for the past two years and opens at its last stop, Pataka, in Porirua, this weekend. It's the first major touring exhibition of… Read more Audio

9:26 AM.Award-winning Scottish poet Robin Robertson this year released the book-length narrative poem, The Long Take - it is the first book of poetry to be long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, and the co-creator of string field theory, a branch of string theory. His academic work looks to continue Einstein's search for a "Theory of Everything,"… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.A Christchurch woman who was infected by the "flesh-eating" bacteria says people should be aware it can affect anyone and to make sure they go to hospital if they're feeling pain. Read more Audio, Gallery

8:12 AM.In the hours after the February 2011 Canterbury earthquake, Chessie Henry's father Chris Henry, a Kaikoura-based doctor, crawled into makeshift tunnels in the collapsed CTV building to rescue the… Read more Audio