Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:15 AM.Simon Coley of All Good Organics on how sourcing cola from Sierra Leone helped them win world's Fairest Fair Trader. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 7 June 2014. Audio

11:45 AM.Kim and Kate discuss three books for 8-11 year olds by American writer Kevin Henkes: Sun and Spoon, Olive's Ocean, and Junonia. Audio

11:05 AM.Australian set and costume designer whose work for Verdi's La Traviata, can be seen in the upcoming NZ Opera production. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Music critic at Slate, whose 2007 book about Celine Dion has just been issued in an expanded edition: Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.District Court Judge, and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group, discussing the theft of Francisco Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Senior fellow at public policy think tank Demos, and author of All the President's Bankers: the Hidden Alliances That Drive America's Power. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Chief executive of research and development body Callaghan Innovation who gave evidence in the trial of Abu Hamza al-Masri, the Islamic cleric behind the 1998 attack on her tour group. Audio

11:50 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 31 May 2014 Audio

11:45 AM.Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien discusses Horse with Hat by Marty Smith, and Edwin's Egg & Other Poetic Novellas by Cilla McQueen Audio

11:05 AM.American short story writer and novelist, and Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Her first new collection of stories in fifteen years is Bark. Audio

10:05 AM.Senior Lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Canterbury, and a Rutherford Discovery Fellow reading original texts in the Exact Sciences in Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Cuneiform. Audio

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

9:05 AM.National Geographic Society Fellow who has spent his career documenting endangered cultures and working as a photojournalist covering conflict, war and famine. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.New York City's commissioner of transportation under Mayor Bloomberg, and leader of many innovative projects. Audio

8:15 AM.Coordinator for Shakti Ethnic Women's Refuge, and the Wellington Young Feminists, discussing the Twitter hashtag #YesAllWomen Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 24 May 2014. Audio

11:45 AM.Discussing three picture books: The Boring Book by Vasanta Unka (Penguin, ISBN: 978-0-143-50575); Back-to-front Bob by Belinda Ellis (Scholastic, ISBN: 978-1-77543-183-1); and Z is for Moose by Kelly… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.DJ who owned one of the world's largest and most significant collections of reggae music until around 8500 of his records were destroyed in a fire at a storage facility earlier this year. Audio

9:45 AM.Dunsandel engineer discusses biofuel possibilities in New Zealand and the moral philosophy of toilet flushing. Audio

9:05 AM.Evolutionary biologist and Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide, whose paper on the evolutionary history of the kiwi was published this week in the journal… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Senior national correspondent for the ABC television programme Good Morning America, and co-author of new book The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance - What Women Should Know. Audio

8:15 AM.Research Fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies, discussing the impact of UKIP on British politics, and what results from the local body elections in the UK mean for the European elections. Audio

11:59 AM.Kim reads feedback from listeners of the Saturday Morning programme of 17 May 2014. Audio