Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:35 AM.Choman Hardi was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1974. During the 80s her family fled Iraq after Saddam's forces attacked the Kurds with chemical weapons. In 1993, Hardi was granted refugee status in… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Zurich-born, Munich-based Otto Künzli is one of Europe's most renowned jewellers. His work is described as "minimalist, yet meticulously crafted work referencing cultural phenomena", including a… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Joel Solomon chairs Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm, at $98m assets under management, almost all in the organic foods and distribution, green tech and independent media… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The effects of climate change on the lands of the Pacific are more complicated than tiny islands disappearing into the sea, says Auckland University professor Paul Kench. His team have discovered… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Dave Goelz is an American puppeteer and voice actor who has been one of the lead Muppet performers for over 40 years, performing Gonzo, Zoot, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Beauregard and several other Muppet… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.The Australian cricket controversy raged on this week as commentators compared the fury and tears over ball tampering with the relatively muted response to the abusive behaviour towards women of some… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Dr Andrew Williams is a urologist with sub-specialist training in robotics and complex cancer surgery. He has received numerous awards and research grants and published many articles in peer reviewed… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Simon Wilson writes on politics, culture, urban design, the environment, food and other matters, and has held many positions including editor of Metro magazine, Auckland editor at the current affairs… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Arthur Tompkins is a trustee of the NZ Art Crime Research Trust and a District Court Judge in Wellington. Each year for nearly a decade he has abandoned a New Zealand winter to teach Art in War in… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Alan Taylor is the founding editor of the Scottish Review of Books, and the author of Appointment in Arezzo, a memoir on Muriel Spark. A former Booker Prize judge, he has written for the TLS, The New… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.Greek myths were bedtime stories for theatre artist Miranda Manasiadis as a child. Her new version of the Icarus story takes a parent's perspective on the boy who flew too close to the sun. Read more Audio

8:11 AM.Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil has this week been ordered to turn himself in to serve 12 years in prison over a graft conviction. It's a turn of events that has enraged the… Read more Audio

11:45 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

11:10 AM.The Catholic church in Sydney this week began the formal process for the beatification of Australian Eileen O'Connor, who co-founded the religious order Our Lady's Nurses of the Poor - also known as… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, editor, academic and social activist, and currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.If you want to live a long healthy life, exercise, socialise and eat a Mediterranean-style diet, says medical academic and author of Ageing for Beginners Doug Wilson. Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Pattie Boyd inspired George Harrison and Eric Clapton to write some of the greatest love songs of the 20th century: Harrison wrote 'Something' and 'I Need You' for her, while Clapton penned 'Layla'… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Drs Rochelle Constantine and Regina Eisert have both recently returned from expeditions to the new Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area. Dr Constantine, an associate professor in biological sciences… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Catherine Callaghan is the daughter of the late physicist, Sir Paul Callaghan. She's qualified as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand and has been practicing at the English Bar since 2000. As a… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.A baby’s first year is its toughest, but for premature babies even more so, with an increased risk of dying, or, for those who survive, subsequent health problems. US researchers hope new technology… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Wellington author Gigi Fenster pitched an unusual PhD proposal to the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University - she would induce a fever in herself and the result would be… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Turkish-American Cenk Uygur is the host and founder of The Young Turks, the largest online news show in the world, with over 12 million subscribers. A trained lawyer, Uygur launched The Young Turks as… Read more Audio