Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:50 AM.Follow-up to last Saturday's interview with Quinn Berentson on the moa, with audio of Alice McKenzie, who claimed to have seen a moa when she was eight years old. Audio

9:45 AM.Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing the exhibition Turner from the Tate: the Making of a Master. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Australian playwright and screenwriter whose 1996 play, Speaking in Tongues is currently playing in a new SILO Theatre production. Audio

8:30 AM.Associate professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the University of California at Davis. She was born in Egypt and was among the participants in the 18-day Tahrir protests in early 2011. Audio

8:15 AM.Middle East editor of The Guardian. He is in Cairo reporting on the escalating crisis. Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

11:05 AM.Owner of Wellington cult beer bar Hashigo Zake, and distributor for a range of local craft beers. Audio

11:05 AM.Writer, documentary filmmaker and photographer, whose first book, Moa: the Life and Death of New Zealand's Legendary Bird, has won the 2013 New Zealand Post Best First Book Non Fiction, and the 2013… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Students at Onslow College and Wellington High School who were part of a team competing at the week-long International Young Physicists' Tournament in Taipei. Audio

9:05 AM.Chief Executive of Antarctica New Zealand for the past 11 years, who is about to become CEO at the Department of Conservation. Audio

8:30 AM.Writer, filmmaker, former professional fly-fishing guide and founder of the Wanaka Flyfishing Academy. He hosts the Trout Diaries podcast, and is the author of new book The Trout Bohemia: Fly-fishing… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Media reporter for Poynter Online, on the recent sales of the Washington Post and Boston Globe and the state of newspaper publishing. Audio

11:45 AM.Kate discusses eight children's books by Anna Branford, Hilary McKay, Ursula Dubosarsky, Sally Sutton, Annie Barrows, Jan Mark, and Kevin Crossley-Holland. Audio

11:06 AM.Polynesian poet, former New Zealand diplomat, freelance journalist and creative entrepreneur, whio has been awarded the 2013 Fulbright Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer's Residency. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and now lecturer in creative writing at the Manukau Institute of Technology, whose second novel, The Luminaries, has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Student at Scots College, Wellington, and software developer, who was awarded the Highly Commended Award for the best secondary school student at the 2013 Eureka! Symposium. Audio

9:06 AM.Assistant professor of special education at Adelphi University in New York, who is visiting New Zealand to present his seminar, Success with Autism: Using Our Strengths for Achieving a Fulfilling and… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Journalist, magnet for natural disasters, and author with Jenny Tabakoff of No Mercy: True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality (Text Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-92212-724-0). Audio

11:44 AM.Leading figure in the Auckland improvised music scene,  founder, composer and director of the New Pacific Music Ensemble, and sound designer for theatre, dance, film and television, who has incomplete… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Sister Loyola Galvin, from the Home of Compassion in the Wellington suburb of Island Bay, was named national NZ Gardener of the Year 2008 by NZ Gardener magazine, and interviewed twice on the… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Professor of Research and Development at Te Puawananga ki te Ao, University of Waikato, and an authority on moko. With Rosslyn Noonan she has curated Tirohia Mai Look At Us Now at the National… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Associate Professor of History at Massey University's Albany campus, whose research focuses on religion in New Zealand life and history. His new book, Destiny: the Life and Times of a Self-Made… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Lead osteo-archaeologist on the project team that solved the 500-year-old mystery around the remains of Richard III, extracting the DNA sample from the skeleton unearthed under a council carpark in… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Kate discusses Recipes for Play by Rachel Sumner and Ruth Mitchener, and Wearable Wonders by Fifi Colston. Audio

11:05 AM.Playwright, choreographer and director whose latest production, C - A Musical, is inspired by his ongoing treatment for leukemia. Audio