Saturday Morning Podcast Options

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

9:05 AM.Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering at University College London, and investigates the ways in which people interact with their immediate environments. He is also the Director of the UCL CRUCIBLE… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Professor of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health Institute of Veterinary Animal and Biomedical Sciences at Massey University, and director of the university's Infectious Disease Research Centre.

8:12 AM.Professor of Security Engineering at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and privacy campaigner. Audio

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

11:45 AM.Kate discusses three children's non-fiction books: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, Timeline by Peter Goes, and Shackleton's Journey by William Grill. Audio

11:05 AM.Dr Anae is Senior Lecturer and Director of Research of Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland; Will 'Ilolahia is the founder of the Waiata Artists Trust. Both were members of the Polynesian… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Poet, playwright, musician and novelist who was the youngest person to win the Ted Hughes Award, for her epic narrative poem Brand New Ancients; her first full-length poetry collection, Hold Your Own… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.District Court Judge, and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group. He has a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, and will talk about a number of fakes and forgeries. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Director of Dr Johnson's House Trust, who has written extensively on Samuel Johnson, and author of The Fortunes of Francis Barber: the True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson's… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Distinguished Professor at University of Maryland, fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute, and joint winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for… Read more Audio

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

11:35 AM.New Zealand's inaugural poet laureate, and founder of the International Institute of Modern Letters, whose new book, The Stories of Bill Manhire (VUP, ISBN: 9780864739254), collects stories from… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Distinguished Professor in Medicine at the University of Auckland, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Health Science, and a prominent figure in international bone research. This week the Royal… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.New Zealand composer and songwriter living in Sydney, whose group The Umbrellas celebrated their 30th anniversary recently. He has been the pianist and musical director on ABC-TV's PlaySchool since… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Director of Wellington theatre company The Bacchanals, discussing the Shakespeare plays The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the Shrew. Audio

9:05 AM.Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology at the University of Exeter whose specialised clinical work is in cognitive and behavioural neurology, including neurological disorders of sleep, and… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Taranaki student who was one of 48 secondary school students from around the world chosen to attend a programme at NASA's Lyndon B Johnson Space Centre in Texas. She received a $10,000 Study Start… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.American historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1999 book Vera (Mrs Vladimir Nabokov), and her books on Saint-Exupéry, Cleopatra, and Benjamin Franklin have all been widely acclaimed. Her new… Read more Audio

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

11:50 AM.Kate Camp discusses Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, the 1740 novel by Samuel Richardson. Audio

11:10 AM.Chair of Physiology and Vice Dean of Biomedical Technology at Maastricht University, who has been team leader of the university's Cultured Beef programme since 2013. Audio