Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:05 AM.Founder, CEO and artistic director of the dance company Black Grace, which celebrates its 20-year anniversary this year. He has choreographed and designed a new work, Passchendaele, for the Royal New… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Dunedin novelist, biographer, playwright, short story writer, and New Zealand Poet Laureate, whose new collection, Being Here: Selected Poems, covers the range of his poetry from 1973 to new work… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Professor of biology at the University of Sussex, founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, and author of A Sting in the Tale, and A Buzz in the Meadow. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 30 May Audio

11:35 AM.Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing A Place To Go On From: the Collected Poems of Iain Lonie, edited by David Howard. Audio

11:05 AM.Australian freelance journalist visiting New Zealand to give her talk What is the Future for Photojournalism? during the Auckland Festival of Photography. Audio

10:05 AM.Director of the Auckland multi-media company Propeller Motion who created the video for Planet Key, and the Animation Nation series for TV3's The Nation. Audio

9:40 AM.Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at the University of Western Ontario whose research on the brains of blind people who use echolocation has discovered how their brains have been rewired so… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Co-director of (T)ERROR, a behind-the-scenes documentary filmed over two years around an FBI counter-terrorism sting. It is screening at the Documentary Edge film festival in Auckland and Wellington. Audio

8:15 AM.Senior fellow at the Legatum Institute who spent nine years as a television producer in Russia. He writes for The Atlantic and the London Review of Books, and is the author of Nothing Is True and… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 23 May. Audio

11:45 AM.Kate Camp discusses One Hundred Years of Solitude, the 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Toronto-based Australian chef and writer whose books include Cooking on the Bone, Fat: an Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal, and most recently… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Otago, who has studied the benefits of exercise for brain function, and is investigating whether electrification of the brain can accelerate… Read more Audio

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