Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:15 AM.Britain's foremost scholar of world religion, author of Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, and founder of the Charter for Compassion. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 4 October 2014. Audio

11:45 AM.Performer and co-writer of 'Everything is Surrounded By Water', which was originally performed in living rooms during the New Zealand Fringe 2014, and won the Best Solo award. Audio

11:05 AM.Professor of English literature and intellectual history at the University of Cambridge, visiting New Zealand as the Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.New Zealand singer/songwriter Brooke Fraser talks about her career and new album, Brutal Romantic. Read more Video, Audio

9:45 AM.New Zealand executive chef and co-owner of The Musket Room in New York, which received a highly coveted Michelin Star four months after opening. Audio

9:05 AM.Author of the book, Give Us This Day: a Memoir of Family and Exile, which tells the story of her father, one of the exiled Polish children offered refuge in New Zealand in 1944. Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Specialist in sinus and nasal diseases, and lead author of a recently published study on how the inability of older adults to identify scents is a strong predictor of death within five years. Audio

8:15 AM.London taxi driver previously interviewed by Kim Hill in his black cab on a Saturday Morning programme in June 2006. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 27 September 2014. Audio

11:40 AM.Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien is the author of a number of books, most recently the collection Beauties of the Octagonal Pool (AUP, 2012). He will discuss Puna Wai Korero: an… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Tasmanian novelist whose latest book, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, has won the 2014 Western Australia Premier's Book Award, and has been shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker prize. Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Founder and singer of Moana and the Tribe, and member of electronic duo Pitch Black (respectively), who have collaborated on the Tribe's fifth album, Rima. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Samoan brothers Pene and Amitai Pati and their cousin Moses Mackay whose self-titled debut CD was the biggest selling album in New Zealand in 2013. Audio

9:05 AM.Scottish actor (Top of the Lake, My Name is Joe) and director (The Magdalene Sisters, Neds), who is visiting New Zealand for the Big Screen Symposium. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, author of a number of books, television presenter and blogger, who has become renowned for her fight back against online abuse and trolling. Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Kate reviews two books for older teenage readers: Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie Bat by Francis Lia Block and Razorhurst by Justine Larabestier. Audio

11:05 AM.Editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine and expert in physical activity for public health. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Songwriter and vocalist who has been researching the lives of New Zealand women in the 1800s, and turning their stories into songs on the album The Boundary Riders: Musical Tales of New Zealand… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.District Court Judge and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group,  discussing the 14th century book Sarajevo Haggadah. Audio

9:05 AM.Landscape and urban design consultant, founder of Greenstone Design, and author of Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being: Using Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic Gardens Audio

8:40 AM.Freelance journalist, author, and development worker whose article about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Hell in the Hot Zone, appears in the October issue of Vanity Fair. Audio

8:15 AM.CEO of video software start-up Wipster, in Israel for the Start Tel Aviv Competition 2014, where eighteen companies from around the world have seven days to meet investors and like-minded people. Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 13 September 2014. Audio

11:44 AM.Doctor of enginerering from Dunsandel, discussing solar energy. Audio