Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:15 AM.Katie Brown is a glass artist and co-director of Chronicle Glass Studio and Gallery, which occupies part of a 1912 building that was originally home to the city's newspaper. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Errol Christiansen has been involved since 2011 in the rejuvenation of the Wanganui Orchestra, a community group comprised of local musicians, which he conducts.

The orchestra's leader, English… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Dr Mike Dickison is Curator of Natural History at the Whanganui Regional Museum. He will talk about the museum's moa collection and 3D scanning project, the illicit trade in moa bones, and the Wiki… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Dr Eric Dorfman is the director of the Whanganui Regional Museum. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Nancy Tuaine is the chief executive of the Te Oranganui Iwi Health Authority, and a former member of the Whanganui River Maori Trust Board. Read more Audio

9:15 AM.Martin Visser is a Whanganui City Councillor. He is developing a social progress and life-quality survey of New Zealand towns and cities, based on the Harvard work of Michael Porter, and is… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Graeme Langford is the Emergency Management Officer for the North Island at New Zealand Red Cross. He is running the incident management team and supervising volunteers for the "Cyclone Cindy"… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Dr Tahu Kukutai is Senior Research Fellow the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis - Te Runanga Tatari Tatauranga at the University of Waikato. She is one of the authors of the… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Annette Main has been the Mayor of Whanganui since 2010 and is the Chair of the Whanganui Digital Leaders Forum. For the past three years, the city has been the first and only place in New Zealand to… Read more Audio

8:00 AM.Saturday Morning with Kim Hill, live from the Royal Opera House, Whanganui as part of the Smart 21 initiative focussing on regional centres. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 8 November 2014. Audio

11:45 AM.Kate Camp discusses Persuasion, the 1818 novel by Jane Austen. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Dunedin jeweler back from a four-month research trip to to Europe and North America for his Poppies of War and Peace project, investigating the life and work of Moina Belle Michael, the "Poppy Lady".

11:05 AM.American producer, composer and musical director who has worked with many musicians, including the new album by New Zealand singer Caii-Michelle. Audio

10:05 AM.Pioneering Maori novelist and short story writer who writes about his early life for the first time in Maori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Research Leader at Landcare Research, Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, and a Principal Investigator at the Allan Wilson Centre, who was one of over 100 researchers from 16 countries… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Former head of Medicine and Regulatory Affairs for pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim who now writes stories for children, including the successful Tom Hassler series. Audio

8:15 AM.Helicopter pilot (like his father, and son) who tells his story of deer recovery, mountain rescue, fire-fighting, heli-fishing, and movie work in the book Born to Fly. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 1 November 2014 Audio

11:45 AM.Dunsandel engineer and writer discussing the problems and future of solar photovoltaic energy. Audio

11:06 AM.Co-founder of the Children & Nature Network and The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Just returned from gigs in China and Japan, the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra are about to embark on a New Zealand tour in support of their debut album, and head to the United States in… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Co-curator of the monthly Women of Letters occasion in Melbourne. Audio

9:07 AM.Professor Sir Peter Gluckman is the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor. Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and author of ten books, most recently The Sense of Style: the Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.