Saturday Morning Podcast Options

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

9:30 AM.Continuing on the theme of the New Zealand wars, Richard speaks to well-known journalist, author and social commentator Gordon McLauchlan, whose latest book, A Short History of New Zealand Wars, has… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.To commemorate the New Zealand Wars, and timed in with the New Zealand Government's first ever National Day of Commemoration (October 28), RNZ, in association with Great Southern TV and NZOA, has… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Maxine Gay is Retail, Finance and Commerce Secretary of FIRST Union, and next month steps down from over 30 years at the forefront of New Zealand's union movement. The daughter of a seamstress and a… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Francis Pound, one of New Zealand's most influential art critics, died last weekend. He was an independent art curator and writer who taught for some years in the art history department of The… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.A bevy of poets mark 50 years since the end of six o'clock pub closing at a free event next week at the National Library in Wellington. The finish of the "six o'clock swill" changed the way many New… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.On the back of Australian Sandra Pankhurst's business card, she describes herself as offering a number of services, including "Hoarding and Pet Hoarding Clean up; Squalor/Trashed Properties… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Chris Bourke's latest book, Good-bye Maoriland: The Songs and Sounds of New Zealand's Great War, is an account of the influence of music in World War l - from military bands and concert parties to… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Jackson Katz is an educator, author, filmmaker and cultural theorist. He is co-founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), one of the longest-running and most widely influential gender violence… Read more Audio

9:36 AM.William Yang was born in North Queensland, his grandparents having migrated from China in the 1880s. After completing a Bachelor of Architecture, he moved to Sydney in 1969 and worked as a freelance… Read more Audio

8:37 AM.Geologist Professor Colin Wilson has this week been awarded the 2017 Rutherford Medal, the highest honour granted by New Zealand's Royal Society Te Aprangi, for his research into understanding large… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Chelsea Cohen, sometimes credited as Chelsea Winstanley, is a film producer of Ngati Ranginui descent. Her short films Meathead and Night Shift were both selected for the Cannes Film Festival… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Not just a garden but a 'city' of gloomy octopuses has been discovered off the east coast of Australia, and it isn't the first. Philosopher and scuba diver Peter Godfrey-Smith talks with Kim Hill… Read more Video, Audio