Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:15 AM.Christy Godfuss is the vice president for energy and environment policy at the progressive policy institute, the Center for American Progress (CAP). She has taken part in conversations with NZ's Pew… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:35 AM.Kate Camp has published five collections of poetry, and a sixth collection, The internet of things, has just been released. She is the recipient of the 2016 Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, and heads… Read more Audio

11:09 AM.The award-winning British character actor is in NZ to promote his new film Their Finest.

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10:35 AM.Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian spoken word poet and human rights activist born in Beirut, raised across several countries as a result of being one of thousands of stateless Palestinians; tertiary… Read more Audio

10:09 AM.Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University. The author or editor of sixteen… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Visiting Danish academic Professor Frederik Stjernfelt was enjoying a peaceful Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury until last week, when his new book hit shelves in his home country and… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Kiwi-born adventurer and writer Sequoia di Angelo is the daughter of renowned NZ/American mountain climber Marty Schmidt and sister of 25-year-old Denali Schmidt, who died in an avalanche on K2 in… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:35 AM.Alison Ballance is an RNZ science presenter and the author of New Zealand's Great White Sharks: How Science is Revealing Their Secrets. Read more Audio, Gallery

8:09 AM.Massey University professor Rouben Azizia made headlines in NZ in 1991 when he was the Soviet Union's acting ambassador. An Evening Post article featured a photo of him next to the new Russian flag… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Professor Emeritus Roger Horrocks MNZM is an expert on the life and work of New Zealand born artist and filmmaker Len Lye. He was Lye's assistant in New York during the last year of Lye's life and… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.New Zealander Eleanor Bishop is a theatre director and writer based in New York. She's back home for the upcoming world premiere of her adaptation of Greg McGee's Foreskin's Lament, BOYS, as part of… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Lauren Child has won many awards for her children's books, which include the extremely popular series Charlie and Lola. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Peter Lilley is a British Conservative Party politician who has been a Member of the British Parliament (MP) since 1983. He was a Cabinet minister in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Tusi Tamasese's debut feature The Orator - O Le Tulafale scored multiple honours at the 2011 Venice Film Festival. He talks about his new film One Thousand Ropes. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Carol Sanger is the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in New York, where she teaches courses on contracts, family law, and others focusing on reproduction, the legal… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Between the 1950s and 1980s, more than 100,000 children were taken from their parents and put into state institutions, and in recent months RNZ has extensively covered revelations of historical abuse… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Kate De Goldi talks with Kim Hill about the picture book Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis; a graphic novel retelling of Snow White by Matt Phelan, and the novel Makoons by Louise Erdrich. Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Author David Vann's work has been published in 21 languages. His books include Caribou Island, Legend of a Suicide, and Goat Mountain. David Vann is a professor at the University of Warwick and… Read more Audio

10:34 AM.94-year-old British author Harry Leslie Smith talks to Kim Hill about his campaign to push for the preservation of Britain's National Health Service and the need for his peers to agitate for change. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Armando Iannucci is a critically acclaimed British comedy writer and producer. He's best known for creating the TV shows The Thick of It and Veep. Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Robin Grimes is Chief Scientific Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). He visited NZ recently to meet with scientists and ministers to discuss the connection between science and… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.To mark Brain Day 2017* (and part of international Brain Awareness Week), Kim talks to Professor Russell Snell, a world-renowned geneticist based at the University of Auckland who has long studied… Read more Audio