Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:35 AM.Violinist Stefan Jackiw, now 33, began playing the violin at the age of four. He was just 12 when he was invited to perform for the opening night of Boston Pops; at age 14 he made his European debut… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Dr Douglas Vakoch is President of METI, a nonprofit research and educational organisation dedicated to transmitting intentional signals to nearby stars. He is an elected member of the International… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Typeface designer Kris Sowersby founded Klim Type Foundry (Klim) in 2005. He studied at Whanganui School of Design and worked briefly as a graphic designer before starting Klim. Since releasing his… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Seymour M. Hersh has been a staff writer for The New Yorker and The New York Times. He established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism in 1970 when he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.In 2014 the Sea Shepherd marine conservation ship, Bob Barker, embarked from Antarctic waters on a chase across thousands of kilometres of open sea. Its target - Thunder, an illegal fishing ship… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Local RnB singer Ladi6 has had a big year: she’s undergone two vocal surgeries, released a critically acclaimed EP, and taken home an armful of awards.  Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.Australian author Jessie Cole had an idyllic childhood - in the late 1970s her parents left suburbia to live in an isolated part of northern New South Wales, where Cole and her brother Jake ran free… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Barry Hearn is Chairman of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) which runs a number of competitions, including the World Darts Championship. He is considered to be the brain that turned darts from… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Helen Zaltzman is a British broadcaster, podcaster and writer. She started podcasting in 2007 with collaborator Olly Man, the pair producing Answer Me This! in Zaltzman's living room in her south… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Professor Merryn Tawhai graduated from the University of Auckland with a PhD in Engineering Science in 2001. At the Auckland Bioengineering Institute she has established a research programme in… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Former Conservative Party politician Michael Portillo is now most famous for exploring England with the aid of a 19th-century tourist handbook on the BBC series Great British Railway Journeys. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Clarke Gayford is a television producer and presenter, and the partner of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Raised outside of Gisborne, Gayford has always been a fishing enthusiast. He's been able to… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Sommelier and self-confessed wine geek Curtis Marsh says once a person gets the 'wine virus' there's no cure - "you've just got to keep feeding it wine". Marsh began his career in Wellington around 30… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Stephen Nicol has been studying krill for 40 years and wants to set the record straight about this small, misunderstood crustacean. Not just kai for whales, krill occupy a central place in the marine… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.The value of the humanities (academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture) to society, democracy, identity, happiness and economic worth is being debated in most developed… Read more Audio

9:28 AM.The founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, Peter Beck, is one of six medalists in this year's Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards, announced June 8. Rocket Lab successfully launched its first rocket into orbit… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.An end of sorts is promised for the Golden Bay grandstand in Takaka on Monday June 11, when the Tasman District Council will send in its contractors to remove the historic building to make way for a… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Angie Meiklejohn moved to Auckland's Centrepoint community when she was 15. She tells Kim Hill that participating in the upcoming documentary Angie has lifted her shame about what happened there. Read more Video, Audio

11:40 AM.Australia has completed the world's largest cat-proof fence to protect its endangered marsupials from feral cats. The 44km fence surrounds Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, a former cattle station that has… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Australian duo, This Way North, comprises drummer/vocalist Cat Leahy and guitarist/vocalist Leisha Jungalwalla. They kick off their NZ tour in Auckland on June 7, teaming up with the crew running Some… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Kath Irvine is a permaculture designer and has been designing and managing edible gardens since the late 1990s. She runs a series of workshops from her permaculture home garden, called Edible… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.It's an illness that seems to respect Sweden's borders - occuring only within that country, and only to the children of refugees and asylum seekers. The victims of Resignation Syndrome withdraw from… Read more Audio