Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 25 October 2104. Audio

11:45 AM.Painter, poet, curator and writer, discussing two new books, focused on real life tragedies: How To Be Dead in a Year of Snakes by Chris Tse, and; Dear Neil Roberts by Airini Beautrais. Audio

11:08 AM.Stage and screen actor, producer and standup comedian whose standup show Force Majeure has played in 25 countries on five continents since March 2013, and will visit New Zealand in February 2015. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Playwright, screenwriter, and director of theatre and film, whose pre-European Maori action movie The Dead Lands opens this coming week, and new play, Pure and Deep, will be staged in Auckland later… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.New Zealand and American full-time touring musicians, based in New York and currently on an extensive North and South Island tour. Audio

9:08 AM.Stuart Professor of Science Communication and director of the Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago, and author of Professor Penguin: Discovery and Adventure with Penguins. Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Professor of Public Health at the University of Otago, Wellington, and co-author of The Healthy Country? A History of Life and Death in New Zealand. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Movie director (Titanic, Avatar) and executive producer of new documentary Deepsea Challenge 3D, which chronicles his piloting of a solo submersible to the depths of the Pacific Ocean's Mariana… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 18 October 2014. Audio

11:45 AM.Doctor of engineering from Dunsandel, discussing solar photovoltaic energy. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Art historian, curator, and co-author of two new books: Place and Adornment: a History of Contemporary Jewellery in Australia and New Zealand, and Fingers: Jewellery for Aotearoa New Zealand. Audio

10:05 AM.Trampers and writers who have collaborated on the new, illustrated book, Tramping: A New Zealand History. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.District Court Judge and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group, who has a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces. He discusses the 1998 theft from the Auckland Art… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Senior research fellow at the Liggins Institute, whose work at Gravida, an inter-institutional, inter-disciplinary virtual research network involves new discoveries about cellular organisation. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Adura Onashile is the co-creator and performer of HeLa, a solo show about the woman whose cancer cell sample, taken without her permission, was used as the raw material for some of the most important… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Environmental writer and reporter who wrote the article, Beyond Food and Evil: Nature and Haute Cuisine After the Chez Panisse Revolution, and is currently seeking backing for her project on wild… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of Saturday 11 October 2104. Audio

11:50 AM.Researcher who identified ten representative Wellingtonians who were involved in World War 1, as part of the city's free multi-media event, Wellington - Lest We Forget. Audio

11:25 AM.Writer of non-fiction, biography, poetry and screenplays, whose new small book, Barefoot Years, is a memoir of childhood, and part of a longer forthcoming work. Audio

11:05 AM.Novelist, short story writer, and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Dundee, who writes about her "Katherine Mansfield project" in her recently published small book Thorndon:… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Two of New Zealand's pre-eminent songwriters, who will perform on stage together on the 2015 Winery Tour. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing Light Show, the first major presentation of international light-based art to be seen in New Zealand. Audio

9:10 AM.Artist, engineer and "thinker" whose work blends engineering, bioscience, art and design. Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Otago University student who won the third Sir Paul Callaghan Award for Young Science Orators, at the 2014 Eureka! Symposium. Read more Audio

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