Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:12 AM.Editor at the London Review of Books, and a former head of the Piers Gaveston Society at Oxford University. Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing two new collections of poetry: Shaggy Magpie Songs by Murray Edmond, and Generation Kitchen by Richard Reeve. Audio

11:05 AM.British adventurer who sailed into the Southern Ocean in mid-winter, a journey he wrote about in his book Captain Bungle's Odyssey: Singlehanded Round the World. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.British music writer, broadcaster and record collector who launched Help is Coming, encouraging people to buy the Neil Finn song to assist the Save the Children refugee appeal. Audio

9:35 AM.Pollination & Apiculture team leader at Plant & Food Research's Ruakura campus in Hamilton, who has trained his dog, Ollie, to sniff out underground bumble bee nests. Audio

9:05 AM.Author of the first history of Maori war captives: Outcasts of the Gods? the Struggle Over Slavery in Maori New Zealand. Read more Audio, Gallery

8:30 AM.Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Cambridge, and Professorial Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, at Newnham College, who has returned to New Zealand as… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth and Oceans, James Cook University, in Townsville, Australia, and part of the team that discovered Homo naledi, a human relative found in a cave system in… Read more Audio

11:57 AM.Kim Hill reads a selection of emails, texts and tweets from listeners to the programme of Saturday 12 September. Audio

11:45 AM.New Zealand writer, and ambassador for the first NZ Bookshop Day in October, discussing three picture books: The Lion and the Bird by Marianne Dubuc; Shhhh! I'm Sleeping by Dorothee de Monfried, and… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Geologist and science historian who worked at GNS Science and Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, discussing his new biography, James Hector: Explorer, Scientist, Leader. Audio

10:10 AM.Former Wellington dancer now based in Brussels who has returned here with her latest show, All Ears, which uses the stage as an ad hoc laboratory for a series of unusual recordings and acoustic… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Director of Wellington theatre company The Bacchanals, discussing the Shakespeare "problem play" Measure for Measure. Audio

9:10 AM.Professor of Photography and Head of Belfast School of Art at Ulster University, acclaimed internationally for his depictions of political and social conflict, who visited New Zealand to deliver the… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:40 AM.Nelson orchardist with a PhD in geology who spent many years geologically mapping vast tracts of the Zagros Mountains in Iran, and now conducts annual spring and autumn tours there. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Matthieu Aikins reports from the Middle East and South Asia for a number of magazines and his investigative work exposing war crimes in Afghanistan won him the George Polk Award and the Medill Medal… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 5 September. Audio

11:50 AM.Kate Camp is a published poet, and will discuss the 1951 novel A Question of Upbringing, the first volume of A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.New Zealand baritone who plays the role of violent and corrupt police chief Baron Scarpia in the upcoming NZ Opera production of Puccini's Tosca. Audio

10:20 AM.Principal Research Associate and Director of Genomics/Transcriptomics at the University of Cambridge Institute of Metabolic Science, where he studies food intake and obesity. He visited New Zealand to… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Year 12 student at Orewa College, whose presentation, Synthetic Biology - Engineering the Future, won her the Secondary category and Premier Award at the 2015 Sir Paul Callaghan EUREKA! Awards. Audio

9:42 AM.Former counsel and speech writer to Robert F. Kennedy, and a legal professor at the University of the District of Columbia, who is best known as the originator of time banking, a way to value the… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.New Zealand artist based in Berlin who represented New Zealand at the 2015 Venice Biennale with his work, Secret Power; four of the works have been acquired by Te Papa. Read more Audio, Gallery

8:12 AM.Writer, correspondent, and editor for 33 years at Time and Newsweek, and author of nine books. His new "psycho-biography" is Being Nixon: A Man Divided.

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