Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:30 AM.Lorde's second album - which has already produced two hit singles - is out next month. She talks to Kim Hill about feeling free, hearing colours and the oddness of some of her "spicy" fan mail. Read more Video, 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

11:35 AM.Alan Jansson - producer, songwriter, engineer, label owner, and musician, and the owner of Uptown Studios, in Auckland's Freeman's Bay - was someone local rock legend Graham Brazier had wanted to work… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.The information we get about meat production usually comes from either those staunchly opposed to meat-eating or farmers themselves, says filmmaker David White. His new film MEAT tells the personal… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Dr Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah is the secretary general of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation.  Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Considered one of America's foremost contemporary writers, George Saunders has just published his first novel Lincoln in the Bardo to critical acclaim. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Arthur Tompkins is a District Court judge, and editor of Art Crime and its Prevention: A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals (Lund Humphries). He has a special interest in crimes involving… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Jazz singer Mary Coughlan is regarded as an Irish national treasure, who is also treasured for her extraordinary candour. She'll talk about her best-selling autobiography Bloody Mary at this year's… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Piet Chielens is director of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium. His team at the musuem are currently working on commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele. 

8:12 AM.David Dougherty, who was wrongfully convicted of abducting and raping an 11 year old girl in 1993, has died. Donna Chisholm campaigned for Dougherty to be cleared and supporting him through his… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Sir Venkatraman 'Venki' Ramakrishnan is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who has contributed to our understanding of the atomic structure of the ribosome - the site within living cells where genetic… Read more Audio

9:44 AM.Virginia Hanlon Grohl is the mother of Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. She interviewed the mothers of 18 famous musicians for her book From Cradle to Stage. Read more Audio

9:12 AM.Canadian author Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale is enjoying a resurgence, with many fearing the dystopian totalitarian world it depicts could be reflected in Trump's America. Read more Video, Audio

8:12 AM.One of New Zealand wealthiest – and most outspoken – businessmen, Alan Gibbs is also a life-long car enthusiast. He talks to Kim Hill about his life and love of motor cars. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:40 AM.Professor Catherine Donelly compiled and edited the first-ever Oxford Companion to Cheese. Besides being a cheese fanatic, Donnelly is a 'cheese politics' pundit. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Margaret Mahy's young adult novel The Changeover is being made into a movie starring expat NZ actresses Melanie Lynskey and Lucy Lawless and the British actor Timothy Spall, to be released in late… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Scottish comedian Susan Calman is a regular guest on the BBC Radio 4 News Quiz and QI and the author of a memoir Cheer Up Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.As a three-year-old in China, Quin Tang's mother was shot in front of her and her father taken away. After moving to Christchurch 25 years ago, she walked out of an abusive marriage with two young… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Ian Rankin is an award-winning Scottish author and TV writer best known for his best-selling Rebus series, which have been translated into 22 languages. Read more Audio

8:35 AM.30-year-old programmer Dan Schultz has created the website 'Internet Noise', which auto-opens tabs based on random Google searches and makes it impossible for IPs to accurately profile internet users.