Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:42 AM.David Marr is a Guardian Australia journalist. He is widely regarded as one of Australia's most influential progressive commentators, writing on subjects such as politics, censorship, the media and… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Glasgow writer Denise Mina's latest book is The Long Drop - a semi-fictionalised account of the case of Peter Manuel, who killed eight people in Lanarkshire, Scotland, between 1956 and 1958. The story… Read more Audio

10:42 AM.Amber Rose says her love of food stems from her childhood - growing up near the Northland town of Kaiwaka, where she roamed free, milked the cows, made bread, grew vegetables and foraged honey and… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Joshu Mountjoy is a research scientist at NIWA in Wellington. He focuses on the processes that shape the sea floor and how these affect society, for example through hazards such as earthquakes and… Read more Audio

9:34 AM.Lizzie Marvelly is a musician and multi-media writer and producer. She founded Villainesse.com, starting the #MyBodyMyTerms campaign, aiming to spark conversation about victim-blaming, revenge porn… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Chelsea Manning is an activist, politician, and former US army solider. Encouraged to join the army by her father while living as an openly gay man, Manning began training in 2007. She was deployed to… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Australian Rebecca Peters is considered by many governments to be the world's foremost expert on gun control. She was chair of the Australian National Coalition for Gun Control at the time of the Port… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Neil Finn and son Liam have joined forces to create their first album together - Lightsleeper. It was mainly recorded in Neil's Auckland studio and features a host of guest artists including Mick… Read more Video, Audio

10:40 AM.Dr Doug Wilson has a medical degree from New Zealand, a PhD from the University of London and has pursued postgraduate work and medical research globally. He currently consults and acts as the chief… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.David Neiwert is a journalist, author and expert in American right-wing extremism. He has appeared on Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Newsroom, and The Rachel Maddow Show and is the managing editor of the… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Deanne Williams is a professor of English at York University, Toronto, and a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Prof Williams specialises in medieval and renaissance literatures, and is recognised… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Unilever top dog Geoff McDonald - who has himself struggled with anxiety - rolled out a programme there to destigmatise mental illness and boost productivity, and he tells Kim Hill companies should… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Artist Dane Mitchell, who caused an uproar in 2009 by winning the Waikato National Contemporary Art Award for 'Collateral', which consisted of the binned wrapping from other award entries tipped on to… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.The co-founder and former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage, is heading to Auckland as part of an Australasian speaking tour. Announcing the tour, Farage said that never in the… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.This week Linda Burgess' funny and insightful column in The Spinoff caught Noelle's eye. In it, Burgess describes her experience as a WAG in the 1970s when her husband, Bob Burgess, was an All Black… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Lisa Brown is a general surgical trainee at North Shore Hospital and PhD candidate at the University of Auckland. She's also been studying aerospace medicine, and was the first New Zealander to… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Ed Husain is the author of The Islamist, a memoir of his time inside radical Islamism. Having rejected extremism, he now advises governments and political leaders on Islam. He is a senior fellow at… Read more Audio

9:41 AM.New Zealand born, Melbourne-based, artist and lecturer Dr Patrick Pound has exhibited widely in Australia and New Zealand since the early 1980s. He has held more than 50 solo exhibitions and been in… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Cornel West is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.Gillian Triggs was a lawyer and academic specialising in international public law when she was named president of the Australian Human Rights Commission in 2012. An extremely controversial five years… Read more Audio