Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:30 AM.Painter, poet, curator and writer whose latest book is See What I Can See: New Zealand Photography for the Young and Curious. He discusses some of the highlights of New Zealand poetry in 2015. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Writer, broadcaster, musician and record producer who was awarded the 2015 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington for Goneville, his music memoir about the… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Laura Kroetsch is director of Adelaide Writers' Week at the 2016 Adelaide Festival. Kate De Goldi's most recent novel is From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle, and the stage adaptation of her 2012… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing the restoration of 19th century paintings and frames. Audio

8:35 AM.After a background in advertsising, Cindy Gallop launched the startups MakeLoveNotPorn (on the intersection of technology with human sexuality and experience), and IfWeRanTheWorld (an experiment to… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Founder of the solar energy company Solarcentury, and international charity organisation SolarAid, chair of the not-for-profit financial think tank Carbon Tracker, and climate and energy activist and… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 12 December. Audio

11:45 AM.Author of five collections of poems, most recently Snow White's Coffin; discussing Essays by George Orwell. Audio

11:10 AM.Auckland co-founder of Tommy and James, which produces the dairy-free Nice Blocks range, Little Island Nice Cream, and Little Island Coconut Milk. He is also the founder of Gimme Shelter, working on… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Director of The Bacchanals, a Wellington theatre company founded in 2000 to explore text-based theatre and redefine classic works. Their latest production is A Christmas Karel Capek at BATS (to 19… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Professor in the Biochemistry Department, School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, and an associate investigator at the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Moelcular Biodiversity. His research takes a… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Winner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Raw Comedy Championship in 1996, while studying for a PhD in Pure Mathematics at Sydney University, who went on to host breakfast radio shows. He… Read more Audio

11:59 AM.Kim reads texts and emails from listeners of the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

11:05 AM.Founders of Dunedin bands The Chills and The Verlaines, respectively, who have pursued musical careers since the early 1980s and will perform at the 2016 New Zealand Festival. Read more Audio

10:15 AM.Award winning UK actor and playwright who is visiting Auckland in partnership with the British Council to present his solo show, I, Peaseblossom, the story of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Owner of AroVideo in Wellington, one of New Zealand's largest independent film rental businesses, which faces an uncertain future in the era of streaming services. Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Professor of Ecology and Environmental Science at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, who works on ecosystem collapse, and the effects of carbon dioxide emissions on habitat… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Executive Director of the Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand, and of the Egg Producers Federation of New Zealand, and New Zealand Feed Manufacturers Association. Audio

8:12 AM.Selfies have long been connected to narcissism, but New York writer Rachel Syme is offering a different spin - could selfies really progress the feminist movement? Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 28 November. Audio

11:05 AM.Kevin Williamson is a poet, author, publisher and activist, who performs his work with musician Craig Lithgow. Singer-songwriter Dan Willson records and performs as Withered Hand. All three… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Auckland author who wrote three books while studying for his Bachelor of Engineering. His new thriller, American Blood, is his first book to be published internationally. Read more Audio