Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 12 April 2014. Audio

11:46 AM.Kate discusses The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, Flora and Ulysses by Kate di Camillo, and Dappled Annie and the Trigrish by Mary McCallum. Audio

11:46 AM.Kim Hill reads a message about the Don Brash interview from former National MP Katherine Rich. Audio

11:10 AM.Nigel Beckford: mementos and sagas Wellington writer and publisher (The Wellington Book, The NZ Book), and leader of Sven Olsen's Brutal Canadian Love Saga, who recently released a 50-track album on… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Catherine DeAngelis: policing pharma Emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the first woman editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, and visiting… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.The Ghent Altarpiece District Court Judge with a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, discussing the multiple thefts of the 14th century work by Jan van Eyck. Audio

9:08 AM.Susan Krumdieck: transition engineering Researcher in mechanical engineering at the University of Canterbury, and a founding member of the National Energy Research Institute. Audio

8:45 AM.Former Balkans correspondent for The New York Times who created Political Tours in 2009 to give people first-hand insight into some of the most critical regions in the world. Audio

8:15 AM.Former Governor of the Reserve, and leader of the National and ACT parties, who tells his story in the memoir, Incredible Luck. Audio

11:45 AM.Discussing the poems of Alan Brunton, as collected in Beyond the Ohlala Mountains: Alan Brunton Poems 1968-2002. Audio

11:05 AM.Founder and director of the Greek Theatre of New York, who brings Socrates Now, his interactive production of Plato's classic, to New Zealand this month. Audio

10:05 AM.Director of Music for the Royal New Zealand Navy Band, which has just released its first album since 1982. Audio

9:05 AM.Staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of The Road to Middlemarch : My Life with George Eliot, detailing her relationship with the 1874 novel. Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Co-founder of the Montana-based American Independent Business Alliance, discussing this week's McCutcheon v. FEC decision by the US Supreme Court. Audio

8:15 AM.American neuroscientist and psychiatrist who is the inaugural Creative Fellow for the University of Auckland's Creative Thinking Project. Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 29 March 2014. Audio

11:45 AM.Dunsandel author with a PhD in engineering, discussing exergy and anergy. Audio

11:06 AM.Australian stage and screen actor, currently onscreen in television drama series Rake in the lead role of defense barrister Cleaver Greene. Audio

10:06 AM.Canadian-born singer brought up in the Neilson Family Band, now resident in New Zealand and on tour with a new album, Dynamite!. Audio

9:40 AM.Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery, discussing three exhibitions: My Country - Contemporary Art from Black Australia; Jonathan Jones Untitled [sum of the parts] 2010, and; Five Maori Painters.

9:05 AM.Reader in Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington whose main research interests are in the ethics of the new genetics and biotechnology. His new book is Truly Human Enhancement: A… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.American author, and staff writer for The New Yorker, whose new book is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 22 March 2014. Audio

11:45 AM.Kate Camp discusses The Go-Between, the 1953 novel by L.P. Hartley. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.London-based architect and Visiting Professor of Architecture at University College, London. His designs have won many awards, and he is visiting New Zealand as guest lecturer for the 2014 Futuna… Read more Audio