Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:09 AM.Brexit is a case of a "collective English mental breakdown", a Cambridge professor says. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Last year marked the 200th anniversary since James Parkinson (1755-1824) defined the disease now named after him. Parkinson's Disease is still diagnosed today by recognising the symptoms he… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Former Whanganui mayor and media commentator Michael Laws is a regional councillor in Otago, representing the Dunstan Ward, and the media spokesperson for the New Zealand Rodeo Cowboys Association. He… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.A controversial Republican memo claiming bias in the FBI has been made public after US President Donald Trump overruled the Justice Department to order its release. The memo, written by Republican… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Professor Eric Topol is the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and Professor of Genomics at The Scripps Research Institute. He is one the world's foremost experts in digital… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Influential folk musician, activist and songwriter Peggy Seeger, was born in New York in 1935 and had a childhood steeped in music and politics. Read more Audio, Gallery

8:35 AM.Audience members at composer Max Richter's concert, Sleep, are provided with camp beds and encouraged to nod off during the eight-hour overnight performance. Richter, joined by other musicians and… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.NASA is on a mission to land people on Mars and is building the world's most powerful rocket to get to the red planet. The rocket, called the Space Launch System (SLS) will produce more thrust at… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Dr Kara Filbey is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Malaghan Institute's Allergic and Parasitic Diseases Programme and for the past 10 years she has researched immune responses to parasitic worm… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Norwegian Maja Lunde is the author of several books for children and young adults, and is also a screen writer for film and television. Her debut novel for adults, international best-seller The… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.With the opening of rodeo season in New Zealand, the organisation Anti Rodeo Action NZ has brought Dr Peggy Larson from her home in Vermont to Aotearoa, on her first ever visit. The former rodeo… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Michael Wolff was given unprecedented access to the White House during President Trump’s first 100 days and in his book Fire and Fury paints a picture of a chaotic, dysfunctional administration. Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Educated at the University of Canterbury, Professor Richard Easther taught at Yale University from 2004 until the end of 2011, and is now head of the Department of Physics at the University of… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.What do you get when our 50-mumble programme presenter and self-described 'music geek' Richard Langston, meets millennial music critic, freelance journalist and self-described 'pop culture enthusiast'… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Teremoana Rapley is singer, rapper, TV producer and director and entrepreneur. She joined hip hop group Upper Hutt Posse in 1987, aged 14, and a few years later, Moana Maniapoto's Moana and the… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Professor Alison Phipps is the UNESCO Chair of Refugee Integration at the University of Glasgow. In 2012 she received an OBE for Services to Education and Intercultural and Interreligious Relations… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Dianne Buchan spent her working life as a social and environmental impact assessor and researcher on projects and programmes throughout New Zealand and the Pacific. She is retired, though still serves… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Mike Ladd started writing and reading his poetry in Adelaide at the age of 17. His first book The Crack in the Crib was published in 1984 followed by eight collections of poetry and prose. He was the… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.UK musician and songwriter Nick Halliwell says it was difficult to make sense of the Brexit vote result - so he wrote a pop record about it. Halliwell leads an ensemble called The Granite Shore - two… Read more Audio

8:07 AM.Dr Alastair McClymont is a former Wellingtonian who now resides in Calgary, Canada. He specializes in applied geophysics for environmental, engineering, water supply, and archaeological projects. He… Read more Audio