Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:30 AM.Hamish McKeich International freelance conductor who will conduct the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for three performances for Capital 150, celebrating Wellington's 150 years as New Zealand's capital… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Nick Shymansky Senior A&R manager at Island Records and original manager of Amy Winehouse between 1999 and 2006, who features in a new documentary about the singer, screening at the New Zealand… Read more Video, Audio

9:45 AM.Arthur Tompkins District Court Judge, and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group with a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, discussing the 1985 theft of Impression… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Australian filmmaker known for her intimate portraits of people in extreme circumstances. Her latest documentary, Sherpa, is screening at the New Zealand International Film Festivals. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Editor and publisher of Scoop Media, which runs the independent news source Scoop.co.nz as a free service for the public, supported by a range of premium services and a new "Ethical Paywall"… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Independent investigative journalist, historian, and author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discussing the nuclear and sanctions deal between Iran and the United… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Noelle McCarthy reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 11 July 2015. Audio

11:51 AM.Wellington stay-at-home mother and writer who started the Ballet is for Everyone venture when her two-year-old son decided he wanted to learn to dance. Audio

11:08 AM.Professional dominatrix (as Mistress Mariah) who since 2006 has owned one of New Zealand's most successful fantasy and full-service brothels, and author of Some Kind of Fantasy: the Amazing Life Story… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Former bookseller in Titirangi, Auckland, and founder and programme director of the Going West Books and Writers Festival, celebrating its 20th anniversary. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Driving force for the past few years behind a project to design and build an open source electric car, which he details at Blitz Conversions Limited. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Deborah Cameron Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University who is visiting New Zealand to deliver two lectures: Our Tremendous Opportunity: a Look at the Hidden History of BBC… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Anglican Bishop who tells his story in Slipping the Moorings: a Memoir Weaving Faith with Justice, Ethics and Community. Read more Audio

8:11 AM.CEO and co-founder of equity crowdfunding platform PledgeMe, which has just celebrated its third birthday. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Noelle McCarthy reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 4 July 2015. Audio

11:30 AM.New Zealand author of over 30 publications and screenplays, who has been awarded 2015's $100,000 Michael King Writer's Fellowship, to research and write a biographical study of four largely unknown… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Ethioipian economist and Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, who has been visiting New Zealand to discuss the role of men and boys in ensuring gender equality in the… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.GP based in Kaitaia, Northland, and author of new memoir The Good Doctor, whose work in healthcare delivery has seen him acknowledged as a Sir Peter Blake Emerging Leader, Public Health Association… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Auckland photographer who has been documenting social change for nearly 40 years, and comprehensively recorded events before and after the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour thirty… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:07 AM.University of Auckland academics involved with the Magna Carta 800 Committee and lecture series. Read more Video, Audio

8:10 AM.Executive Vice-Chairman and co-founder of the award-winning horticulture and architecture Eden Project in Cornwall, which has had 16 million visitors since 2000. He is visiting Christchurch with a… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:59 AM.Kim Hill reads emails and messages from listeners of the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

11:40 AM.The Dumpling Sisters, Amy and Julie Zhang, emigrated with their parents, Pei Wen and Maria, from Guangzhou in China to Christchurch, where the family set up a food cart at Riccarton Markets. The… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Copenhagen-based American filmmaker Dr Joshua Oppenheimer has worked for over a decade with militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the… Read more Video, Audio

10:40 AM.Aside from being a dick pic critic, Maddie Holden writes for a range of websites and has a background in law. She hails from Auckland and moved to London last year after a couple of months in the… Read more Audio