Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:40 AM.Brisbane author Nick Earls mostly writes funny fiction. And he's busy - so far having written a total of 26 books for adults, teenagers and children. He's on his way to Aotearoa in March 2018 to speak… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.NZTrio is a violin, cello and piano ensemble with a mission to champion New Zealand composition within a vast and vibrant repertoire. Kim joins NZTrio as the group prepares for its last series of the… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Dr Cherie Lacey is a lecturer in Media Studies and Dr Catherine Caudwell a lecturer in User Experience Design, both at Victoria University of Wellington. The pair have written a paper entitled "What… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College and the author of the just-published Gorbachev: His Life and Times. His 2003 biography, Khrushchev: The… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Husband and wife duo Professors Cezmi and Mubeccel Akdis are heavyweights in the world of allergy research, immunology and health policy. Prof Cezmi is the director of the Swiss Institute for Allergy… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Visiting San Franscisco in 2015, ex-Telecom CEO and entreprenuer Theresa Gattung was intrigued about an idea promoted by fellow entrepreneur and mentorship expert, Canadian Vicki Saunders, who had… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Wellington chef Kelda Hains talks with Kim Hill about the hotel management assignment that changed her life, the beauty of kedgeree and why she'll never use canned tomatoes. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.News this week of a massive leak of financial documents revealing how companies and wealthy people avoid tax by investing in offshore havens has put the spotlight on the secretive dealing. Stuart… Read more Audio

11:47 AM.Kate De Goldi is a fiction writer and book reviewer. Her most recent novel, From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle, won the Esther Glen Medal at the 2016 NZ Children's and Young Adult Book Awards, and… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Gippsland-born Tim Cope speaks fluent Russian, and has spent the best part of a decade traveling Russia, Mongolia, and Central Asia by bicycle, row boat, skis, horse, camel and many other means. His… Read more Audio

10:27 AM.Tea is a new play from British-born, New Zealand-raised Sri Lankan playwright Ahi Karunaharan and it premieres at the Auckland Arts Festival in March 2018. Karunaharan is an actor, writer and director… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Photographer and film location scout Dave Comer was popularly known as 'the man who found Middle Earth'; he was Peter Jackson's main location scout. He also had a successful career in advertising… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.British artist Sean Henry graduated in ceramic sculpture from Bristol in 1987 and had his first exhibition in London in 1988, going on to have more than 30 solo shows during his career. Henry's public… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Dr Angus Hervey is a former manager of Random Hacks of Kindness, a global initiative from Google, IBM, Microsoft, NASA and the World Bank to create open-source technology solutions to social… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.The Mountaintop is an award-winning play by African American playwright Katori Hall, based on a fictional account of Martin Luther King's last night on earth at the Lorraine Motel Room in Memphis… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Jamie Joseph was raised in Durban, South Africa. She moved to London at the age of 20 to work for Microsoft, and five years later moved back to South Africa to produce music, arts and culture… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Jan Carson is a writer based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her first novel, Malcom Orange Disappears in 2014 was followed by a short story collection Children's Children in 2016. Her latest… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Tāmati Kruger was educated at Victoria University in Wellington, where he also tutored in te reo Māori and was involved in the early days of the Te Reo Māori Society in the 1970s. He is the chief… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Drawn Out: A seriously funny memoir is Tom Scott's account of his life so far. From his hard-knock childhood, his days on student newspapers, making friends and enemies in the corridors of power and… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.UK-born New Zealander William Trubridge started freediving at the age of eight, and began to train seriously in Italy when he was 23. Two years later he was the first freediver to dive at Dean's Blue… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Big Daddy Wilson, born Wilson Blount, grew up in a tiny town in North Carolina and was raised by his mother and grandmother. After quitting school he joined the US Army and was stationed in Germany… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Andrew Kelly is the Yarra Riverkeeper - he patrols and protects the Melbourne waterway and advocates for its well-being. Last month the Yarra Riverkeeper Association celebrated a new law which… Read more Audio

10:33 AM.When Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock left the band in 1977 he claimed to be "sick of the bullshit". Others said it was because he said he liked The Beatles. He tells Richard Langston he's "not a… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.The NZ Festival first became part of Shelagh Magadza's life around 20 years ago. Her earlier jobs there involved administration and  ferrying artists around Wellington - but since 2014 she has been… Read more Audio