Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:45 AM.Kate Camp is a poet, and Communications Manager at Te Papa. She discusses 1977 novel The Thorn Birds by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Audio

11:08 AM.Professor of Japanese Business at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, and is an authority on Japanese business organisation, strategy and management. Audio

10:08 AM.Nigerian-born, UK-based writer and performer of Call Mr Robeson: a Life with Songs, based on the musical career and political activism of the US singer Paul Robeson.

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9:42 AM.Dunsandel engineer and author, discussing how energy gives us the musical scale. Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Cross-agency Defence Force lead for the 2015 Gallipoli commemoration, and author of Elusive Peace: a Kiwi Peacekeeper in Angola, about his time as a United Nations Military Observer in 1998. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Director of the Institute for Transregional Studies at Princeton University, and a leading expert on the theology of Islamic State. Read more Audio

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

11:45 AM.New Zealand author of many books, discussing the work of children's picture book writer and illustrator Chris McKimmie. Audio

11:05 AM.Singer and songwriter who has recorded a series of duet albums with Delaney Davidson, and is touring New Zealand with his band The Yarra Benders in advance of his debut solo album in April. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Editorial cartoonist for the National Business Review continuously since 1975, leading authority on hedgehogs and possums, and weekly science columnist to Wellington's Dominion Post. His new book is… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Indigenous advocate for Te Reo, who has written on how Maori language could be better integrated in Aotearoa, and how the internet can play a crucial role in normalising Te Reo for younger people. Audio

9:05 AM.Professor at Harvard Medical School, Raymond D. Adams Master Clinician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and author of Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole. Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Lecturer in linguistics who works on the computational analysis of language at the University of Colorado, and author of It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Cliches. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.CEO of World Vision in New Zealand who recently visited Iraqi Kurdistan and Lebanon, in advance of the launch of the Syrian refugee appeal on 7 March. Read more Audio

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

11:45 AM.Student at AUT, and founder of Indigo and Iris, one of the social entrepreneurship schemes at this year's startup accelerator programme, Live the Dream. Read more Audio

11:08 AM.British playwright, actor and social activist, whose new one-man show, Away From Home, about football and homosexuality, has its New Zealand premiere as part of Auckland Fringe and Auckland Pride… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Scottish folk singer and New Zealand multi-instrumentalist who have performed across Australia, Europe, Russia, and Canada, and are currently touring here. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.District Court Judge who was appointed the first Chief Coroner of New Zealand under the Coroners Act 2006, and retired from the position on 13 February. Audio

9:07 AM.Professor of Digestive Biomechanics at the College of Health, Massey University, an Associate Investigator at the Riddet Institute, and leader of the Digesta Group, are acknowledged world leaders in… Read more Audio

8:32 AM.Author of books on emotion and the placebo effect, who moved to the Scottish Highlands, founded a community to attempt post-apocalyptic living, and details his challenges, descent into madness and… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Senior Research Advisor at Frontline Analysts, who writes on economics and finance. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 7 February 2015. Audio

11:45 AM.Greg discusses I, Clodia, and Other Portraits by Anna Jackson. Audio

11:05 AM.Director of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland, and one of the most highly cited chemists in the world. Read more Audio