Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 21 May. Audio

11:35 AM.Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute and Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, and Director of the Photon Factory at the University of Auckland. Her start-up company… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.District nurse based in Kakahi, and a photographer whose exhibition, Observations of a Rural Nurse, is showing at Anna Miles Gallery as part of the Auckland Festival of Photography. Audio

10:07 AM.British writer and broadcaster whose work takes a cultural perspective on the natural world. His latest book is The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination. Audio

9:50 AM.Director of Wellington theatre company The Bacchanals, and research and development consultant for the Pop-Up Globe, discussing the Shakespeare tragedy, King Lear. Audio

9:10 AM.Director of the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge, and an expert on pest animal ecology. Audio

8:35 AM.Co-founder of eParachute.com who writes and lectures frequently on the future of work and learning. He is visiting New Zealand as a guest of Callaghan Innovation to deliver his talk, How To Thrive In… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Venezuelan journalist and political scientist, who is founder and executive editor of Caracas Chronicles.com. Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 14 May. Audio

11:40 AM.Kim Hill talks to Gregory O'Brien about two new collections of poetry: Fale Aitu Spirit House by Tusiata Avia, and The Lives of Coat Hangers by Sudesh Mishra. Audio

10:06 AM.Kim Hill talks to Michel Faber, award-winning author of a range of writing, including the novels Under My Skin and The Book of Strange New Things, who is a guest at the Auckland Writers Festival. Audio

9:35 AM.Kim Hill talks to Australian writer Cory Taylor who wrote her last book, Dying: a Memoir, while dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Audio

9:06 AM.Kim Hill talks to Robyn Gallagher who is in Stockholm, Sweden for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Kim Hill talks to veterinarian, lawyer and passionate naturalist Charles Foster, who took on the neuro-scientific and literary challenge of living like a fox, badger, otter, deer and swift to write… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 7 May. Audio

11:40 AM.Kim Hill talks to Kate De Goldi about children's books Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson, Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson, and The War That Saved My Life by… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Kim Hill talks to the artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet who came here after a career as a dancer, choreographer, and artistic director in Italy. The RNZB's latest production, The… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Kim Hill talks to the New York journalist, essayist, critic and author about her memoirs Fierce Attachments (1987) and The Odd Woman & the City (2015). Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Kim Hill talks to the District Court Judge and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group with a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces. He discusses the collapse of the… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Kim Hill talks to the British novelist who has published over a dozen works of fiction since her 1985 debut novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; her latest is The Gap of Time, a "cover version" of… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Kim Hill talks to the Distinguished Research Fellow and Group Leader, Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, who is co-leader of a world-first research… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Jim Mora talks to the actor who played lawyer Dennis Denuto in the 1990s movie, The Castle, and Martin Di Stasio in the television series Frontline. Audio