Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:10 AM.Manager of New Zealand Fashion Week, which is now in its fifteenth year. Audio

9:40 AM.Principal of Collingwood College, and Professor of Education, at Durham University, and co-author of The Dyslexia Debate, which examines cognitive, brain-based, genetic and educational aspects of… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Blenheim author and former court lawyer, whose interest in exploring the bush and back country areas of New Zealand led to an interest in writing on New Zealand history. His new book is Kupapa: the… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:40 AM.Founder of social enterprise Ooooby, which has the goal of rebuilding the local food system with a distribution model operating in Auckland, Waikato, Matakana, Sydney, and California. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Professor Tom Higham is deputy director of the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit at Oxford University, and interim director of the Advanced Studies Centre. He is returning to New Zealand as an Allan Wilson… Read more Audio

11:56 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 22 August. Audio

11:54 AM.Morgan Bach reads two additional poems, 'Instructions for Herbovores' and 'Raw Ginger' from her new poetry collection, Some of Us Eat the Seeds. Audio

11:45 AM.Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing the new collection by Morgan Bach, Some of Us Eat the Seeds, and anticipating National Poetry Day. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Freelance conductor, musician, composer, musical director, and founder of the Christchurch International Musical Theatre Summer School and Christchurch Pops Choir. He is co-creator of That Bloody… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.District Court Judge, and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group, with a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces. He discusses the theft of Nativity with St Francis and St… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Co-director of the documentary feature Best of Enemies, about the 1968 series of television debates between writer and intellectual Gore Vidal and conservative author and commentator William F… Read more Video, Audio

8:30 AM.Braden Cameron breeds and trains endurance horses on his Wellington farm, and represented New Zealand in endurance riding at 2014 World Equestrian Games. He was one of four New Zealanders in the top… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.EU correspondent for The Sunday Times, discussing the giant bridge that Croatia is planning to build across part of the Adriatic Sea, bypassing a ten-kilometre stretch of roading through Bosnia and… Read more Audio

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

11:45 AM.New Zealand writer discussing When Dad Showed Me the Universe by Ulf Stark, illustrated by Eva Erksson, Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage, and Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash. Audio

11:05 AM.Australian writer who worked in the United Kingdom as a journalist, and as ghostwriter for politicians and celebrities including Rolf Harris. He has been a bestselling crime fiction writer since 2002… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Director of Community Music Junction, an organisation which enables people to sing together and learn a range of musical instruments, and founding musical director of the Wellington Community Choir… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Andreas Elpidorou is an assistant professor in philosophy at the University of Louisville and recently wrote an article about the value of boredom and what it’s trying to tell us. He explains why it’s… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.New Zealand author who works as the Section Manager of Marine Policy, Planning and Regulations at the Environment Agency in Abu Dhabi. His new book, Conquistador Puzzle Trail, assesses possible… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Notary Public and visiting research fellow at Plymouth University, who fought a freedom of information case to access papers showing the extent of the Queen and Prince Charles's secretive power of… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University, who has been studying vocal fry, a guttural growl sound formed in the back of the throat that is prevalent at the end of words and… Read more Video, Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 8 August 2015. Audio

11:45 AM.Wellington poet discussing the 1936 novel Passport to Hell by Robyn Hyde, republished this year by Auckland University Press in an edition that includes Hyde's final authorised text from 1937. Read more Audio

11:10 AM.South Korean-born writer who has written an undercover memoir, Without You, There is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite. She will be a guest at Shifting Points of View during the… Read more Audio