Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:06 AM.Jools and Lynda Topp have been performing as the Topp Twins for over thirty years, and go on tour across New Zealand in October and November with The Grand Ole Topp'ry show. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Founder and director of theatre company Little Dog Barking, whose production of Duck, Death and the Tulip, won an Outstanding Theatre award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Audio

9:06 AM.American journalist and author on his new book, The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification. Read more Audio

8:50 AM.New Zealand film producer, who is using equity crowdfunding to complete the budget for her latest project, The Patriach, with Lee Tamahori and Temuera Morrison. Audio

8:15 AM.Professor Emerita in Social Studies in Medicine at McGill University in Montreal and author of The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 6 September 2014. Audio

11:45 AM.New Zealand author discussing three novels for middle readers: Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper, The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate, and One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia. Audio

11:05 AM.Professor of Utopian Studies at the University of Nottingham and author of books and articles on the topic of political utopianism, who delivered the 2014 Robert Chapman Lecture at the University of… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.New Zealand playwright who has been living in New York as the third recipient of the Harriet Friedlander New York Residency and is back here for the Auckland Theatre Company's world premiere… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.West Auckland social entrepreneur who is working on the projects Our Place Events, RockEnrol,and Fill Bellies Not Bins,and speaking at Festival for the Future 2014. Audio

9:05 AM.Owner with her husband Garry of the Rocklands farm near Takaka, who has written the memoir, Hard Country: A Golden Bay Life. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide who has been awarded a Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council, using ancient micro biomes and genomes to… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 30 August 2104. Audio

11:43 AM.Awards Manager at Booksellers NZ and member of the women's Ultimate frisbee team which competed alongside four other New Zealand teams at the World Club Championships in Italy. Audio

11:07 AM.Poet, novelist, translator, anthologist, publisher, and author of the new book, The Novel: A Biography, visiting New Zealand as a guest of the NZ Centre for Literary Translation, in association with… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Publisher and Multimedia Manager at Te Papa whose biography by Jill Trevelyan, Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer, won best overall book at the 2014 New Zealand Post Book… Read more Audio

9:43 AM.Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki discussing restored engraving The Mocking of Christ, after Sir Anthony van Dyck by François Langot. Audio

9:06 AM.Emeritus Professor of Soil Science at Reading University, who works with the charity Wherever the Need, and is a guest speaker during World Science Week New Zealand. Read more Audio

8:11 AM.British journalist and author whose new book is How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say - and What They Really Mean. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 23 August 2014. Audio

11:40 AM.Dunsandel-based writer with a Ph.D. in engineering, discussing wave energy. Audio

11:05 AM.South African artist acclaimed worldwide for his combinations of cinema, theatre, drawing, sculpture and music. Audio

10:05 AM.Steve Hathaway is an underwater filmmaker who helped his daughter Riley create the Young Ocean Explorers television series; they have just launched a Kickstarter appeal. Audio

9:45 AM.Senior lecturer at Auckland University's School of Music, and author of How to Hear Classical Music, discussing symphonies. Audio

9:05 AM.Architectural writer and commentator who will visit New Zealand for the WORD Christchurch Writers Festival. Audio