Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:10 AM.Ceramic artist whose work is exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. His 2010 memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, was an international award-winning best-seller, and his new book, The White… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages to the Saturday Morning programme of 31 October. Radio New Zealand vs RNZ is the chief topic among listeners. Audio

11:45 AM.Discussing poetry by Peter Bland; a new collection, Expecting Miracles, and his Collected Poems 1956-2011. Features two web only poems read by Peter Bland. Audio

11:08 AM.Associate professor in the School of Design at Massey University, and former Curator of History and Textiles at Te Papa. Her new book is a history told through objects and images, Real Modern… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Queenstown-based musician and author whose song, The Wonky Donkey, was turned into a book with CD in 2009, and was a bestseller in New Zealand, and around the world. Over the last eight years, he has… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Manager of strategy and innovation for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, who wrote recently for the Guardian about how science became a dominant issue in the… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Head of Drama at Denmark's public broadcaster DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation). She was the creative force behind groundbreaking Scandinavian noir series The Killing, executive produced subsequent… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Otago, based in Christchurch, and affiliated to the Centre for Reproduction and Genomics. She is working on a project studying Chinook salmon to examine… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Senior editor at large for Fortune magazine whose new book is Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will. Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 24 October 2015. Audio

11:30 AM.Operatore didattico at the Vatican Museums in Rome, who leads tours, lectures, and conducts seminars on theological aesthetics or the interdisciplinary study of religion and art. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.American-Iranian director and screenwriter whose new feature film, 99 Homes, is set around mortgage foreclosures in Florida. Audio

10:10 AM.Philip Smith is the owner of landscape design company O2 Landscapes Ltd, and David Straight is a Christchurch-born photographer. They have created the new book, Vernacular: the Everyday Landscape of… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Comic book writyer and illustrator, and editor-in-chief of Square Planet Comics, best known for his series Blastosaurus and children's picture books, including new book Gorillas In Our Midst. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Internationally renowned variety act based in Las Vegas who have been touring globally for the last twenty years, specialising in silent comedy, magic, juggling, slapstick, and acrobatics. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 17 October. Audio

11:45 AM.Director of Wellington theatre company The Bacchanals, whose next production is Isaac Asimov's A Christmas Karel Capek at BATS in December. He discusses Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth. Audio

11:30 AM.Literary scholar, critic, and senior editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, who teaches at Claremont McKenna College. His article about annotation, Down the Rabbit Hole, was published recently in… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Buyer for fashion boutique Scotties who recently returned to Wellington from her second visit this year to Paris for Fashion Week. Audio

10:05 AM.Product Design Director at Xero, and Creative Director for the last twenty years. He was the founder of early 21st century online community NZMusic.com, built SmokeCDs.com into New Zealand's leading… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She discusses Mesures de L'Homme (The Measure of Man), an exhibition of work by Le Corbusier at the… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Chief scientist at Plant and Food Research, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Auckland, and Principal Investigator at the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Economics editor of Channel 4 News in the UK, and writes regularly on the economy, culture and politics. His new book is PostCapitalism: a Guide to Our Future. Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Columnist for Forbes.com and economic analyst, who created TheBubbleBubble.com for the purpose of exposing dangerous post-2009 economic bubbles and warning of their ability to damage and destabilise… Read more Audio

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