Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:40 AM.Engineer and author who lives in Dunsandel, discussing wind energy. Audio

11:08 AM.Journalist and author who writes about her experience answering fan mail for reclusive writer J.D. Salinger in her memoir, My Salinger Year. Audio

10:08 AM.UK-based New Zealand writer and researcher, and co-author with Australian writer Greg Armstrong of the forthcoming book, Half a World Away: The Beatles' Australasian Tour 1964. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Emeritus Professor at Victoria University's School of Psychology, interviewed John Lennon during the group's 1964 tour of New Zealand, and surveyed local fans for a paper about Beatlemania. Read more Audio

9:07 AM.New Zealand jewellers and curators of Wunderrūma, an exhibition at the Dowse featuring pieces by contemporary New Zealand artists alongside Māori taonga and Pacific and historical European pieces. Audio

8:40 AM.British science writer, whose work appears in Nature, New Scientist and Prospect, among others. His most recent book is Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler, and he… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.New Zealand director of documentary Cap Bocage, and co-producer of new feature, The Dark Horse, which will both screen during this year's New Zealand International Film Festival. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 14 June 2014 Audio

11:45 AM.International anti-corruption consultant who divides his time between Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, and has just produced The Sound of Words, a book and CD of poetry. Audio

11:05 AM.President of the New Zealand Association for Gifted Children who will speak at events during the upcoming Gifted Awareness Week. Audio

9:35 AM.Founder of the Book Sprints process, which helps groups create books from scratch in three to five days. He is about to take up a position at the Public Library of Science in San Francisco. Audio

9:05 AM.Historical biographer and author of a number of books, most recently Fitz: the Colonial Adventures of James Edward Fitzgerald. Audio

8:40 AM.Underwater filmmaker based north of Auckland who is a passionate advocate for New Zealand's oceans and sea life. Audio

8:15 AM.Simon Coley of All Good Organics on how sourcing cola from Sierra Leone helped them win world's Fairest Fair Trader. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 7 June 2014. Audio

11:45 AM.Kim and Kate discuss three books for 8-11 year olds by American writer Kevin Henkes: Sun and Spoon, Olive's Ocean, and Junonia. Audio

11:05 AM.Australian set and costume designer whose work for Verdi's La Traviata, can be seen in the upcoming NZ Opera production. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Music critic at Slate, whose 2007 book about Celine Dion has just been issued in an expanded edition: Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.District Court Judge, and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group, discussing the theft of Francisco Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Senior fellow at public policy think tank Demos, and author of All the President's Bankers: the Hidden Alliances That Drive America's Power. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Chief executive of research and development body Callaghan Innovation who gave evidence in the trial of Abu Hamza al-Masri, the Islamic cleric behind the 1998 attack on her tour group. Audio

11:50 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 31 May 2014 Audio

11:45 AM.Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien discusses Horse with Hat by Marty Smith, and Edwin's Egg & Other Poetic Novellas by Cilla McQueen Audio

11:05 AM.American short story writer and novelist, and Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Her first new collection of stories in fifteen years is Bark. Audio