Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:25 AM.Olivier Weber has been a war correspondent for 25 years,covering conflict in Central Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Iraq. He was an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Erin Joyce is a World Vision child protection and conflict specialist who has just returned from Zelikan Camp near Mosul in northern Iraq. She has seen the effects two years of ISIS occupation has had… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.In their spare time, Wellington couple Lilly and Leon Mackie make film-style sets out of cardboard boxes and other bits and pieces from around their home and, along with their young sons, create… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Dr Rochelle Constantine recently led an expedition to the Kermadec region to study ocean biodiversity from the deep sea to the surface. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Former Christchurch restaurateur James Jameson ran a cafe in the Christchurch Arts Centre until the Canterbury earthquakes of 2011. Last year, James moved to Mt Lyford – the area hit hard and isolated… Read more Audio

10:11 AM.Science writer James Gleick's latest book tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea. While in reality it's not possible, he says, through memories, movies, novels and hope, we are all Time Lords.

9:00 AM.Geoff Marsland of Havana Coffee Works is arguably one of the founders of New Zealand’s coffee culture. He's just released a book with writer Tom Scott and photographer Grant Sheehan about his life as… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:45 AM.In 1976, Paul Fitzgerald – a 28 year old Education Department clerk – won a court case against then-prime minister Robert Muldoon, invoking the 1688 Bill of Rights. 40 years on, the Bill of Rights is… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.Professor Richard Beasley CNZM FRSNZ tells Kim Hill that New Zealand has one of the highest rates of asthma in the world, yet despite a huge research effort, we still don’t know why. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Wellington-based musician, composer and producer David Long is a busy man. He's been working on the score for Roger Donaldson's film on Bruce McLaren, and he has a newly commissioned work which will… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.The annual NZ Architecture Awards, held this month, saw the Institute of Architects' gold medal for career achievement - the NZIA's highest honour - go to Wellington architect Roger Walker who… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Macular degeneration is the major cause of blindness in people over 50 in New Zealand - but eye specialists say revolutionary new treatments and raising awareness of the problem will help to overcome… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.The internet, oft-maligned, has ushered a new era in human creativity, argues David Gauntlett, allowing the like-minded to foster niche, but nourishing, online communities.   Read more Video, Audio

8:42 AM.Ben Dowdle is director of Unmask Palm Oil and is campaigning for mandatory labeling of palm oil which is found in around half of all packaged foods. Palm oil plantations have been linked to… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Campbell McLachlan, QC, is professor of Law at Victoria University, teaching international law and dispute settlement. He is author of Foreign Relations Law - the first modern study of this field in… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.In his first book My Father's Island Adam Dudding turns to his father, the acclaimed literary editor Robin Dudding. Audio

10:07 AM.Tame Iti discussed the concept of mana in the 2016 Bishop Sir Paul Reeves Memorial Lecture – From the Raindrop to the River to the Sea. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Jane Falconer has developed a rose to raise money for Christchurch's Ranui House, which supported her family during her granddaughter's leukaemia treatment. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:10 AM.Jon O’Brien, the president of American pro-choice organisation Catholics for Choice, says no religion should have political influence in a secular society. Read more Audio