Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:05 AM.Two of the creators of Wheel of Experience, a musical show that brings the 'wild west' of New Zealand to life and will travel the country throughout May. Audio

9:40 AM.Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery, discussing two new books: Fix: the Art and Life of Felix Kelly, and Greer Twiss. Audio

9:05 AM.Theoretical physicist, broadcaster, and author of a number of books, including Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Science. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Professor of History at Princeton, and a Fellow of the British Academy talking about her book, Acts of Union and Disunion: What Has Held the UK Together and What is Dividing It? Audio

11:50 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 19 April 2014. Audio

11:06 AM.New Zealand singer and songwriter who rose to fame in New Zealand and Australia during the 1980s. Audio

10:40 AM.Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Festival since 2007 who is in New Zealand for the launch of Creative New Zealand's major new international initiative, NZ@Edinburgh. Audio

10:10 AM.American author (The Color Purple) and activist who will visit New Zealand in May for the Auckland Writers Festival. Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Senior lecturer at Auckland University's School of Music, and author of How to Hear Classical Music, discussing texture in music. Audio

9:07 AM.One of the world's leading experts on the subject of the evolution of behaviour, who is visiting New Zealand for the Allan Wilson Centre's 2014 International Speaker Series with his presentation, The… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.British writer whose books include the memoir The Child That Books Built, the novel Red Plenty, and non-fiction books Backroom Boys: the Secret Return of the British Boffin, and Unapologetic: Why… Read more Audio

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