Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:45 AM.CEO of Thirst, who is running 40 marathons through seven deserts on seven continents in seven weeks to raise awareness of water scarcity. Audio

9:05 AM.Recent retiree from the position of Director of International Operations, and Vice President at Marie Stopes International, after working for 15 years around the world for international humanitarian… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London who is currently writing a book about swearing, and wrote the essay Naughty Words recently for online journal Aeon. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Pentagon-based journalist who is currently on special assignment at PBS NewsHour, where he has investigated the Pentagon's plans to spend $1 trillion on upgrading America's nuclear arsenal. Audio

11:30 AM.Members of the Wellington band Eb & Sparrow (Ebony Lamb, Nick Brown, Jason Johnson and Chris Winter) join Kim Hill in the RNZ music studio ahead of their month-long tour to small New Zealand centres.

11:05 AM.Chair of the Waitakere Ranges Local Board, and driving force behind the inaugural open day at New Zealand's largest cemetery, the first event of its kind in New Zealand. Read more Audio, Gallery

10:35 AM.Senior Lecturer in the Science in Society Group, Victoria University of Wellington, and editor of Dispatches from Continent Seven: an Anthology of Antarctic Science, a new collection of writings by… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Michela Magas, founder of Stromatolite and the #MusicBricks project, and Andrew Dubber, founder of digital music consultancy group New Music Strategies. Together they run the Berlin Music Tech Fest. Audio

9:50 AM.Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Mary Kisler, discussing the recently reopened Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:10 AM.Filmmaker whose first New Zealand movie in 20 years, Mahana, adapted from the novel Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera, tells the story of two Maori sheep-shearing families on the East Coast in the 1960s. Mah… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Writer and environmental activist who grew up between South Africa and Zimbabwe, and moved to New Zealand. She is reporting from the frontline of Africa's poaching crisis at savingthewild.com, and has… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 20 February. Audio

11:30 AM.Morgana James, Anand Rose, Peter Egli, Adrian Whelan are four of the musicians involved in the Beneath the Words, Beneath the Land (Kei raro i te kupu Kei raro i te whenua) project which crosses a… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Personal trainer, whose Body Love Blueprint project works to change the way women think about themselves and others, while they get stronger and fitter was one of the recent Wellington ventures of… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at Oxford University, where he researches how social policy and economic changes influence health across the globe, and co-author of The Body Economic: Why… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.District Court Judge, and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group, who has a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces. He discusses the loss, theft and recovery of… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.British food activist who founded and chairs voluntary gardening initiative Incredible Edible, in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. She is visiting Christchurch to deliver her talk, Eating the Garden City. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Founder and CEO of LightYears IP, board member of the African IP Trust, and a fellow of Ashoka, the largest worldwide network of social entrepreneurs. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 13 February. Audio

11:45 AM.Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien is the author of a number of books, including the 2013 book (with David Craig), His Own Steam: the Work of Barry Brickell. He will discuss the poetry… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Former director of the National Earthquake Centre in Italy, who was tried and convicted of manslaughter after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, then acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court of all charges… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Emeritus Professor at the University of Cumbria who teaches at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, and Chairman of Council of the Clan Gregor Society of Scotland, co-ordinating the Clan… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Canadian small-scale market gardeners visiting New Zealand on the Six Figure Farming Tour, outlining their replicable system for profitable, small-scale intensive growing of organic produce. Audio

9:45 AM.Director of Wellington theatre company The Bacchanals and associate director of Twelfth Night, one of the productions of the Pop-Up Globe Auckland. He discusses the first Shakespeare tragedy, Titus… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Author of Life of Pi, the 2001 novel that won the 2002 Man Booker Prize; his new novel, The High Mountains of Portugal, also features animal characters. Read more Audio