Saturday Morning Podcast Options

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

10:55 AM.Former chief executive of the RSA and military historian, who is attending Anzac Day at Gallipoli for the first time. Audio

10:35 AM.Journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald, TV commentator, former radio presenter and national representative rugby union player whose new book is Gallipoli (Random House). He will be… Read more Audio

10:27 AM.Project Manager of the First World War Centenary Programme for the Wellington City Council. Audio

10:10 AM.Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service during World War Two, in New Zealand and the United Kingdom respectively. Audio

9:50 AM.Creative Director at Locales, who have developed the Ngā Tapuwae New Zealand First World War Trails for the WW100 Programme Office. Audio

9:20 AM.Wellington regional president of UN Youth New Zealand. Audio

9:10 AM.Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force from 2011 to 2014. Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Reporter for Radio New Zealand at the wreath laying ceremony at the Cenotaph, Wellington. Audio

8:55 AM.Regional correspondent for Radio New Zealand, reporting on Anzac commemorations in Queenstown. Audio

8:35 AM.Associate Professor of the Modern History of the Middle East and Fellow of St Antony's College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Fall of the Ottomans: the Great War in the Middle… Read more Audio