Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:38 AM.Journalist and author Armando Lucas Correa is the Editor in Chief of People en Español - the top-selling Hispanic magazine in the US. Read more Audio

10:38 AM.German writer Norman Ohler talks about the Third Reich's relationship with drugs - including cocaine, heroin, morphine and methamphetamines. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Dame Georgina Mace talks with Kim Hill about how the focus of conservation has shifted from preservation and protection to adaptability and resilience. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Professor Eric Rignot talks with Kim Hill about future sea-level rise from warming of the polar ice sheets. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Hugh McCarroll of Hamilton is one of the finalists in a global competition designed by NASA to crowdsource ideas for collecting waste from astronauts. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Wellington Hospital intensive care specialist Dr Paul Young is actively involved in clinical research designed to improve the outcomes of critically ill patients around the world. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.The NZTA is looking to replicate a UK programme that has so far taught cycle skills to two million schoolchildren – Bikeability. Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Kate Camp has published five collections of poetry, and a sixth collection, The internet of things will be published by VUP in March. She is the recipient of the 2016 Katherine Mansfield Menton… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.21 years after the wildy successful heroin-addled film of Irvine Welsh's book, Trainspotting II opens next week. Director Danny Boyle talks with Kim Hill. Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Devoney Looser is a professor of English at Arizona State University and author or editor of six books on literature by women. Her new book, The Making of Jane Austen, will be out in June 2017… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author, and broadcaster. She has just released a comprehensive book on Turkey's capital, entitled Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities. Her previous books… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.The 2017 season of Wellington Summer Shakespeare has kicked off with a performance of All's Well That Ends Well and a book has been published to commemorate 34 years of this event in the capital. Kim… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Pip Rea works for Freeset - a fair-trade business which employs women trapped in Kolkata's sex trade. Read more Audio, Gallery

8:38 AM.Tanu Gago is a visual artist and award winning photographer of Samoan heritage. Born in Samoa and raised in Mangere, Gago works as a new media artist with a portfolio of work that includes, staged… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Melanie Nezer is vice president,policy and advocacy for HAIS, formerly the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and now one of the US' largest non-profit groups devoted to protecting and assisting refugees… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Carl Bland is an acclaimed actor, playwright and painter, and the son of another renown New Zealand actor Peter Bland. He was a core cast member shows such as Rude Awakenings, and hit drama Street… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Tom Kelley is a partner at the Silicon Valley design studio that pioneered the concept of 'design thinking' and the author of Creative Confidence. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.The Hot 8 Brass Band are coming from the US to play WOMAD in mid-March. The band, direct from the streets of New Orleans, has re-cast traditional marching band jazz with funk, R&B and hip-hop. Kim… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Richard von Sturmer made his name in the late 70s New Zealand punk scene, performing at the Nambassa Music Festival in 1979, and co-writing the famous anti-Muldoon song 'There Is No Depression in New… Read more Video, Audio

9:25 AM.Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye was knighted this year for “being one of the leading architects of his generation and a global cultural ambassador for the UK". Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Professor David A Leigh is the Royal Society Research Professor & Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry at the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He is in New Zealand to speak at the… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.NZ journalist Emma Beales has won this year’s James W Foley Freedom Award for her work. Since 2012 has covered the civil war in Syria. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Kim Hill asks journalist Matt Nippert how and why US billionaire Peter Thiel gained both New Zealand citizenship and millions of dollars profit from a taxpayer-funded scheme. Read more Audio