Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:46 AM.Globally, health and wellness is a multi-billion-dollar industry. Many products claim to help with sleep or stress, including natural remedies. Read more Audio

8:36 AM.This week Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp died, after a battle with kidney disease. Read more Audio

8:11 AM.The indirect route to progress is the focus of award-winning Guardian columnist Rebecca Solnit's latest essay collection.  Read more Audio

7:46 AM.Next Tuesday the IHC - which advocates for the rights, inclusion and welfare of people with intellectual disabilities will offiicially launch its new report entitled The Cost of Exclusion. Read more Audio

7:32 AM.This week negotiating the settlement for Aotearoa's largest iwi Ngāpuhi has seen yet another twist. Moana Tuwhare, the General Manager of Te Runanga o Ngāpuhi and former Treaty Negotiations Minister… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.This week the Middle East has been on a knife edge, after the US entered the conflict between Israel and Iran.  Read more Audio

7:11 AM.It's been a wet and wild start to the school holidays. MetService's head of weather news Heather Keats talks to Mihi. Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Matariki is a great time of year to slow down, reflect, and take stock of the different areas of our lives, and for some, it might be a good time to get into the garden.  Read more Audio

11:25 AM.If you're looking for something to do to pass the winter blues by, look no further than the Brew of Islands Festival taking place next weekend in Kerikeri.  Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Mother of Chooks is a joyful short documentary which follows Australian woman Elaine James who has become a minor celebrity - all because she keeps pet chickens.  Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.Anyone who has or knows someone with ME, chronic syndrome fatigue or long covid knows that being believed is one of the toughest parts of having the condition.  Read more Audio

10:05 AM.New York Times bestselling author, historian and White House correspondent Lynne Olson's new book The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück tells of defiance in a notorious women-only Nazi concentration camp.  Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Voted one of America's best photographers, Colorado-based Kirsten Lewis spent 15 years capturing the complex yet fulfilling roller-coaster ride of parenting.  Read more Audio

9:30 AM.When you think of bellringing in an old cathedral, the first thing that comes to mind probably isn't today's youth. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Sharon Van Etten's latest album is her seventh and first with her group The Attachment Theory. Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Professor Natalie Waran has been recognised for her lifetime's research into improving the lives of horses.  Read more Audio

8:11 AM.For some of us, a day or an hour disappears in the blink of an eye. For others it might feel much longer. But why?  Read more Audio

7:53 AM.One of people who had a hand in deciding when we mark Matariki is Māori astronomer Victoria Campbell and she's had a busy year from partnering with Minecraft to creating unique stamps with NZ Post.  Read more Audio

7:47 AM.For schools delivering the lunches themselves, there have been serious cost pressures. But one Taranaki high school says they've managed to have small surplus operating under the $4 per lunch budget.

7:36 AM.The Prime Minister has wrapped up a whirlwind three-day trip in China. Jason Young, the director of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre dissects it. Read more Audio

7:28 AM.Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has slammed New Zealand for what he calls a "patronising" approach over its China deal. This week it was revealed that nearly $20m of New Zealand funding to the… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.President Trump has said he will decide if the US will get directly involved in the Iran-Israel conflict within the next fortnight.  Read more Audio

7:11 AM.The recent upsurge in conflict between Israel and Iran continues to build. European foreign ministers have been holding talks with Iran to try to restore a diplomatic path over its nuclear programme. 

11:38 AM.A question everyone must ask themselves at some point: what does a life well lived look like? Tyler J. VanderWeele is co-director of the five-year Global Flourishing Study. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Legendary author Witi Ihimaera is the man behind Whale Rider and Pounamu Pounamu. Already a celebrated master of the pen, at the age of 80 he felt a yearning to master something new and learn te reo… Read more Audio