Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:34 AM.Graphic designer Marcus Thomas and photographer Neil Silverwood have just published a book, Caves: Exploring New Zealand's Subterranean Wilderness, which takes readers on a journey into New Zealand's… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Lisa-Maria Neudert is a research assistant at the Computational Propaganda Project (ComProp) and a graduate student at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). She talks to Kim about the ComProp data memo… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.David Sedaris's new book is compendium of his diary entries from 1977 to 2002,Theft by Finding. He tells Kim Hill that everything he writes gets read aloud he needs to add humour so he'll hear… Read more Audio

9:38 AM.Irish director Emer Reynolds' documentary, The Farthest, picked up three awards at the Dublin International Film Festival earlier this year. The Farthest tells the story of NASA's Voyager spaceships -… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Dr Mariano Sigman is interested in how our brains, think, feel and decide. He talks to Kim Hill about his new book The Secret Life of the Mind. Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Dr Arie Havelaar is a professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Florida, specialising in microbial risk assessment and epidemiology of food-borne diseases. He is affiliated… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Dunedin teenager Issie, or Isabelle, Robertson has had a paper arguing against genetic modification to prolong human life, published in the prestigious international Journal of Medical Ethics. The… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.On 16 July, broadcaster and writer Noelle McCarthy has a new RNZ series out, looking at immigration. Slice of Heaven was made in collaboration with McCarthy's fiancé John Daniell and Massey… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Dunedin-born Gerald McGhie served for 40 years as a diplomat for New Zealand, including two postings in Moscow - during Brezhnev and the Cold War years, and later during the fall of Gorbachev, the… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Professor Tom Gilbert is an evolutionary biologist and ancient DNA expert at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. He is visiting New Zealand as a guest of Allan Wilson at Otago, with the support of… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.David Diamond is the artistic and managing director of the Vancouver-based company Theatre for Living (TfL) and the originator of TfL techniques, which have grown from Augusto Boal's Theatre of the… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Kate Camp has published six collections of poetry - her latest, The Internet of Things, was released earlier this year. She is the recipient of the 2016 Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, and is… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Professor Johan Rockström led the team of scientists who worked out the planetary boundaries framework. He tells Kim Hill we haven't made a disaster of the planet yet, but it's critical that we move… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Eighty year old Swiss-born goldsmith Kobi Bosshard has been called the grandfather of New Zealand jewellery. His daughter Andrea  Bosshard has just made the film about him, Kobi. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.In April 1938 Agnes Moncrieff, New Zealand YWCA foreign secretary to the YWCA of China, wrote to her mother - "You do not travel in China at the full moon if you can help. There are always air raids."… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Linda Tyler will talk nudes to mark the imminent end of The Body Laid Bare: Masterpieces from Tate exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki. Tyler is an associate professor and director of… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Professor Rhema Vaithianathan is co-director of the Centre for Social Data Analytics at AUT. She is widely published in the research areas of health and development economics and applied… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Part of the reason people are suspicious of severe depression is that we're all a little depressed, says writer Daphne Merkin. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere is a senior lecturer at the University of Otago Faculty of Law, teaching public law, the law of torts and animals and the law. His research interests include the status of… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Charlotte (Polly) Fisher is a sailor who raced for 11 years as a member of the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, including in the Wellington Harbour and Coastal Offshore Series. In 1990, Polly was the… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Dropping the traditional gender roles of 'caregiver' and 'breadwinner' would benefit everyone, says former Green MP Holly Walker, who's written a memoir The Whole Intimate Mess: Motherhood, Politics… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Auckland-based husband and wife team, lawyers Anthony and Sandra Grant, have just opened a hugely ambitious art project near Matakana, north of Auckland, called Sculptureum. For 12 years, the couple… Read more Audio