Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:46 AM.Entrepreneur Tama Toki's new venture Aotea Energy is solar energy project for rural communities on Aotea/Great Barrier Island.  Read more Video, Audio

9:36 AM.A next-generation living soil developed by a husband and wife in their Taranaki backyard has been named Germany's Garden Product of the Year.  Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Illustrator, best-selling author and mental health advocate Campbell Walker, better known as Struthless, has amassed over 50 million video views where he discusses mental health and creativity - and… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Elin Anna Labba's nonfiction book The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow, the forced displacement of the Northern Sámi blends history, memoir, poetry and images to depict a hard life and give voice to… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Back in 1982, the broken-hearted 23-year-old Elspeth Beard set out on the solo adventure of a lifetime - clocking up 35,000 miles and becoming the first British woman to circumnavigate the globe on a… Read more Audio, Gallery

7:50 AM.It is New Zealand Archeology Week this week and Tuhura - Otago Museum has a Treasure of Tiwai event on.  Read more Audio

7:44 AM.This week National introduced a members' bill to ban social media for people under the age of 16. Read more Audio

7:35 AM.A fertility industry conference held in Singapore last weekend has considered some of the ethical issues for donor conceived people. Read more Audio

7:25 AM.Hundreds of people from Dunedin to Auckland took to the streets this week to protest the government's new Pay Equity Amendment Bill. It was pushed through parliament this week under urgency.  Read more Audio

7:19 AM.We've seen the worst outbreak of violence in Pakistan and India in 30 years this week and Reuters is reporting that 48 people have been killed so far in the latest escalation of conflict. Read more Audio

7:11 AM.The government says it will launch a review into the Waitangi Tribunal to refocus the "scope, purpose and nature" of the Tribunal's inquiries back to its "original intent".  Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Novelist, children's writer, and Arts Foundation Laureate Kate de Goldi is back with her favourite winter reads.  Read more Audio

11:35 AM.There's a big weekend in store for Christchurch where the curtain is being raised on the new Court Theatre. The new $56 million playhouse is the theatre's first permanent home since the 2011… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Yael Van der Wouden's first novel The Safekeep is a twisted tale of desire, obsession and loss set in the post-war Netherlands. It was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, and now the 2025 Women's… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Tory Whanau has announced she will not stand again for the Wellington mayoralty. Her announcement came shortly after former Labour Party Leader Andrew Little confirmed he would be contesting.  Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Stag Dance, the latest novel from trans writer Torrey Peters, is made up of three short stories and the provocative titular tale of male loggers exploring their sexualities together.  Read more Audio

9:32 AM.Shaun Hendy is a well-respected New Zealand physicist and the chief scientist at climate innovation company Toha.  He talks about his new book looking at NZ's Covid response. Read more Audio

9:06 AM.In 2024, Auckland hosted The World Choir Games. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Leanne Pooley captured this choral extravaganza event for documentary series The Choir Games.  Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Have you ever missed something obvious right in front of you? Chances are you've experienced a psychological phenomenon called inattentional blindness. Read more Audio

8:11 AM.What's better than 007? Stella Rimington, of course. She's the former director general of British counter-intelligence and security agency MI5.  Read more Audio

7:51 AM.The Race Unity Speech Awards are on this weekend in Auckland. They're a platform for senior high school students from around the motu to express their ideas on how to improve race relations in… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.A hapū at the epicentre of the caulerpa outbreak in the Bay of Islands are calling for more concerted effort to deal with the invasive seaweed.  Read more Audio, Gallery

7:32 AM.This week the government announced plans to cut the operating allowance in this year's budget by $1.1 billion, and Finance Minister Nicola Willis has hinted at changes to KiwiSaver. Read more Audio

7:21 AM.Israel hasn't allowed any aid into Gaza since March 2, our correspondent Trent Murray in Tel Aviv gives Susie the latest. Read more Audio

7:17 AM.There's still a state of emergency in Christchurch and many properties across Wellington, Wairarapa and Manawatu are still without power following the week's wild weather. Read more Audio