Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:30 AM.Andre Upston has been a music recording engineer at RNZ for 22 years. In that time he has recorded some of the country's top artists including Brooke Fraser, Shihad, Bic Runga, Neil Finn, Anika Moa… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Hollie McNish is a UK poet based between London, Cambridge and Glasgow. She has two poetry collections - Cherry Pie and Papers and an album Versus, which made her the first poet to record at Abbey… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.In the forth part of Venus Envy - made in association with Are We There Yet?, the new women's suffrage and equality exhibition at Auckland Museum - Damaris Coulter, Annah Pickering and Nunu Davey talk… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Irish writer Mike McCormack's latest book is Solar Bones, a novel written in a single sentence that flows over 270 pages, and spans a single day in which the ghost of a Mayo engineer called Marcus… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Lucy Saunders is a UK public health expert who has revolutionised the way London city is planning its streets and transport systems. She is the architect of the Healthy Streets approach to transport… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Paora Te Oti Takarangi Joseph is of Atihau-a-Papaarangi and Nga Rauru descent, from Kaiwhaiki Pa, near Whanganui. His first job was as a youth worker on the streets of South Auckland, which led him to… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.With spring just around the corner and likely to spark pollen-related allergic reactions for many, Noelle talks to Prof Franca Ronchese about her work and the latest science on finding the cause of… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Nigel Pascoe QC is a specialist practitioner in UK criminal jury advocacy, undertaking Courts Martial, and some civil work including serious abuse and baby shaking cases, and defamation. He's been one… Read more Audio

11:38 AM.It's been a very busy year for top Auckland restaurateurs Sid Sahrawat and his wife Chand, owners of popular restaurants Sidart and Cassia. On top of running their two acclaimed eateries, they will… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Madeleine Chapman is a staff writer at The Spinoff. She previously represented Samoa in their national cricket team and was the New Zealand javelin champion in 2013 and 2017. Most recently, Chapman… Read more Audio

10:32 AM.In the third part of Venus Envy - made in association with Are We There Yet?, the new women's suffrage and equality exhibition at Auckland Museum - lawyers Zoe Lawton and Hayden Wilson weigh in on… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Debra Granik is a director and screenwriter based in New York. Her past works include her 2004 film Down to the Bone, starring Vera Farmiga, and she directed and co-wrote Winter's Bone in 2010, the… Read more Audio

9:32 AM.NZ writer Kirsty Gunn describes her new novel, Caroline's Bikini, as a comedy about the telling of a love story. Gunn's first novel, Rain, was published in 1994, and was made into a successful feature… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Lower Hutt-born Craig Heatley is one of New Zealand's richest men. He founded Rainbow Corporation in the 1980s which had interests in Woolworths supermarkets, entertainment theme parks including… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Anna Boyiazis is an American documentary photographer based between Southern California - where she was born and raised by her family of Aegean Islanders - and East Africa. She has received several… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.On July 29, Cambodians will vote in a national election that many believe is a foregone conclusion. The expected winner is Hun Sen, the world's longest-ruling prime minister, who has ruthlessly… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Noelle McCarthy reads emails and texts from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

11:29 AM.From her days as a young girl in Canada touring with her family band, The Neilsons, who opened for the likes of Johnny Cash, to a fully-fledged successful solo career in New Zealand, Tami Neilson has… Read more Audio

10:41 AM.Soda Jerk, formed by sisters Dan and Dominique Angeloro in Sydney in 2002, is a two-person art collective. Working at the intersection of documentary and speculative fiction, Soda Jerk is concerned… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Edinburgh-born Irvine Welsh was "energised by the rave scene" when he started writing Trainspotting, and says his latest book looking at middle-aged male friendship shows the breakdown of old… Read more Audio

9:34 AM.Playwright, journalist and popular culture critic, Sam Brooks has won the Bruce Mason Award, been highly commended twice in the prestigious Adam NZ Play Awards, and won Playmarket's b425 competition… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.The 80-year-old actor, writer, activist and fitness guru talks to Noelle McCarthy about existential threat, the MeToo movement and why for older actresses television is more forgiving than film. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Professor Tim McCormack is in New Zealand as the New Zealand Law Foundation's 2018 Distinguished Visiting Fellow. He is Dean of the University of Tasmania Law School and a Professorial Fellow at the… Read more Audio