Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:30 AM.Query proofreader at The New Yorker who has written popular pieces for the magazine on pencils and punctuation; her first book is Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Journalist for the Sunday Herald in Edinburgh who broke the story about claims by Royal Navy whistleblower William McNeilly about the security and safety of the Trident nuclear submarine programme. Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 16 May. Audio

11:45 AM.New Zealand writer discussing the books of Lissa Evans, including Small Change for Stuart, and Big Change for Stuart. Audio

11:05 AM.Professor of Contemporary Poetry and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Britain's poet laureate, visiting New Zealand for the 2015 Auckland Writers… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Former British Army Brigadier, and Producer and Chief Executive of The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, which is being brought to Wellington by the New Zealand Festival in February 2016. Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Professor of Digestive Biomechanics at the College of Health, Massey University, Associate Investigator <http://www.riddet.ac.nz/our-people/professor-roger-lentle> at the Riddet Institute, and… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Human rights activist and supreme court lawyer in Dhaka, and an honorary executive director of the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Service Trust, discussing the murders of three secular bloggers in… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Expert in kleptocracy, anti-corruption, and civil-military relations with ten years' experience in Afghanistan; currently a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program and the South Asia… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Professor of Natural History at the University of Manchester and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Ancient Life Phil Manning, who is speaking about the mummified remains of a… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Author of six novels, most recently The Bone Clocks, and translator with his wife Keiko Yoshida of The Reason I Jump, written at the age of 13 by autistic child Naoki Higishida. David Mitchell will… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary, Macroenomic, International and Economic Research, at the New Zealand Treasury. Read more Audio

9:45 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 discuss the 2003 theft of the Cellini Salt… Read more Audio

9:15 AM.Editor for Nature magazine for over 20 years, and author of Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler, and… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.New Zealand sailor in London on 7 May 1945, when the war with Germany was declared over. Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs in Washington DC, discussing the international significance of the repositioning of power in Saudi Arabia. Audio

8:10 AM.Scotland Editor of The Spectator, who also writes for The Times and is a regular contributor to the Scottish Daily Mail, discussing the unexpected election result in the United Kingdom Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from Listeners to the Saturday Morning programmme of 2 May. Audio

11:45 AM.Gregory O'Brien discusses two new collections: Otherwise by John Dennison, and Song of the Ghost in the Machine by Roger Horrocks. Audio

11:05 AM.Chief Scientific Officer at St Petersburg University, and head of the Genome 10K project to sequence the genomes of 10,000 invertebrates; visiting New Zealand for the Allan Wilson Centre 2015… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Professional falconer whose work in raptor research and conservation projects informed the writing of her book, H is for Hawk. She will visit New Zealand in May to speak at the 2015 Auckland Writers… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.BBC political correspondent for many years, worked at 10 Downing Street as deputy to Alistair Campbell, and was the Labour Party's Director of Communications during 2000 and 2001. He has returned to… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.National Economics Correspondent for The Washington Post, where he writes about education and race relations. He has been resident in Baltimore for over 30 years, and discusses the city and its… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Chair of independent, science-led drugs charity DrugScience, and is Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Head of the Department of Neuropsychopharmacology and Molecular Imaging at… Read more Audio