Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:55 AM.Saturday Morning producer Mark Cubey reads a tribute to Radio New Zealand recording engineer Ian Gordon, a long-time Auckland studio operator for the programme. He passed away this week. Audio

8:15 AM.Australian author, screenwriter and journalist known for her novels and non-fiction works, the latest of which is This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 16 August 2014. Audio

11:45 AM.District Court Judge and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group, discussing the theft of Portrait of Wally, the 1912 oil painting by Austrian painter Egon Schiele. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Professor of Sociology at King's College, London, whose research concerns biological and genetic psychiatry and behavioural neuroscience. He is visiting New Zealand to talk at the Competing… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Producer of small scale, intimate opera productions in Days Bay, whose latest production, Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, commemorates the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth. Audio

9:05 AM.Writer on historic and contemporary China whose first book is The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the World's Greatest Invention. Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Long-time conservationist who has written (with Tony Lindsay and Janet Hunt) the history of New Zealand's wildlife sanctuaries, Paradise Saved. Audio

8:15 AM.Director of the World Climate Research Programme in Geneva, who is coming here to speak at World Science Week New Zealand. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 9 August 2014. Audio

11:42 AM.Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing the Parkin Drawing Prize that he judged, and "difficult" poetry with reference to the collection Heartland by Michele Leggott. Audio

11:10 AM.Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University, whose first novel, The Naturalist, is based on the life of Dr Ernst Dieffenbach, the German naturalist who voyaged to New Zealand in 1839. Audio

10:11 AM.Auckland-based ethnomusicologist and composer who has been collecting audio/visual documentation of indigenous music and ecstatic performance in west India for the British Library World Music… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Producer and presenter at Radio New Zealand in Edinburgh reporting on New Zealand’s presence at the various Festivals. Audio

9:05 AM.New Zealand filmmaker whose latest six-part observational series, The Slum, follows the lives of slum dwellers over six months in Manila's Tondo district and will screen on the Al Jazeera English… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.American Journalist and author, speaking about his recent article for WIRED: 'The Fasinatng... Frustrating... Fascinating History of Autocorrect'. Audio

8:12 AM.Arthur Baysting Songwriter, former APRA board member and advocate for children's rights, talking about cultural changes on the issue of marijuana and how New Zealand might benefit from these changes.

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 2 August 2014 Audio

11:45 AM.Kate Camp discusses The Storm of Steel, the memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger's experiences on the Western Front during the First World War. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Poet, singer-songwriter, teacher and occasional broadcaster who is currently writer-in-residence at Victoria University, and just had a new poetry collection published, Waha/Mouth. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Founder of American group Throwing Muses, solo musician, and author of the memoir Paradoxical Undressing, who is visiting New Zealand for spoken word and singing events. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Writer and historian who managed the Vietnam War oral history and digital archiving project for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, and authored the book No Front Line: Inside Stories of New… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Co-owner of Bamff Estate in Scotland who has brought beavers to large enclosures on their estate and campaigned for a population of wild in the catchment of the River Tay. Audio

8:15 AM.Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force talking about the Force and its participation in the Centenary Day commemoration and other WW100 events. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 26 July 2014 Audio