Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:07 AM.Former Federated Farmers president Bruce Wills now holds governance roles on 12 organisations, including two National Science Challenges the QEII National Trust, Ravensdown and Apiculture NZ. He is… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Writer, actor and filmmaker Eli Kent won the 2008 Peter Harcourt Award for Outstanding New Playwright of the Year at just 19. He went on to write several award-winning works and his play All Your… Read more Audio

9:15 AM.Cassandra Extavour is a Harvard University professor, who is in New Zealand to sing 'Handel's Messiah' with the Auckland Chorale. Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Charles (Chuck) Lane is an opinion writer for The Washington Post and a regular guest on Fox News Channel.

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8:10 AM.Labour MP and former Labour Party leader David Shearer is off to South Sudan to lead the UN mission in that war-torn territory. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Linda Tyler will review 2016: the Year in Art. Linda has been writing on art, design, architecture and fashion since 1984. She's now an associate professor and Director of the Centre for Art Research… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.William Grill is a London-based writer and illustrator. His first book, Shackleton's Journey (Flying Eye Books, ISBN 978-1-909263-10-9) won the 2015 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for distinguished… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Comedian Robin Ince talks about turning science into jokes. Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Poetry can be perplexing… some say that’s the point. But writer, poet and critic Stephen Burt is here to help. Read more Video, Audio

8:12 AM.Humanity has never had it so good, according to Johan Norberg, the author of Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Writing is what Karyn Hay likes best. Her debut novel Emerald Budgies won Best First Book at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2000 and she’s just published a new novel, The March of the… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Valerie Steele has been described by The Washington Post as one of “fashion’s brainiest women.” Since 2003, she been director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Kevin Furlong is Professor of Geoscience at Penn State university and an authority on tsunami alert monitoring. Part of his work includes understanding the many methods of monitoring employed in… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Simon Poole, of New Business Ventures, Finisar Ltd Australia, is an engineer and an entrepreneur who recently received the Charles Todd Medal - the most prestigious award made by the Australian… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Olivier Weber has been a war correspondent for 25 years,covering conflict in Central Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Iraq. He was an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Erin Joyce is a World Vision child protection and conflict specialist who has just returned from Zelikan Camp near Mosul in northern Iraq. She has seen the effects two years of ISIS occupation has had… Read more Audio

11:25 AM.In their spare time, Wellington couple Lilly and Leon Mackie make film-style sets out of cardboard boxes and other bits and pieces from around their home and, along with their young sons, create… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Dr Rochelle Constantine recently led an expedition to the Kermadec region to study ocean biodiversity from the deep sea to the surface. Read more Audio