Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:15 AM.American neuroscientist and psychiatrist who is the inaugural Creative Fellow for the University of Auckland's Creative Thinking Project. Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 29 March 2014. Audio

11:45 AM.Dunsandel author with a PhD in engineering, discussing exergy and anergy. Audio

11:06 AM.Australian stage and screen actor, currently onscreen in television drama series Rake in the lead role of defense barrister Cleaver Greene. Audio

10:06 AM.Canadian-born singer brought up in the Neilson Family Band, now resident in New Zealand and on tour with a new album, Dynamite!. Audio

9:40 AM.Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery, discussing three exhibitions: My Country - Contemporary Art from Black Australia; Jonathan Jones Untitled [sum of the parts] 2010, and; Five Maori Painters.

9:05 AM.Reader in Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington whose main research interests are in the ethics of the new genetics and biotechnology. His new book is Truly Human Enhancement: A… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.American author, and staff writer for The New Yorker, whose new book is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 22 March 2014. Audio

11:45 AM.Kate Camp discusses The Go-Between, the 1953 novel by L.P. Hartley. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.London-based architect and Visiting Professor of Architecture at University College, London. His designs have won many awards, and he is visiting New Zealand as guest lecturer for the 2014 Futuna… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Chart-topping Irish musician who has just released a best-of collection, It's All Good, and is visiting New Zealand for four solo shows. Audio

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

9:05 AM.American author of 11 books including the novel May We Be Forgiven and the memoir The Mistress's Daughter. She will visit here in May for the Auckland Writers Festival. Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Professor of politics at the University of Rhode Island, and is Fulbright research scholar in Ukraine. Audio

8:15 AM.British Foreign Office Chief Science Adviser, Professor of Materials Physics at Imperial College, and a nuclear energy specialist. Audio

11:45 AM.Greg discusses poetry about painting, with reference to the work of Ashleigh Young, and the Te Papa project, Walk With Me: Contemporary Poets Respond to Colin McCahon. Audio

11:05 AM.Merchant banker, sailor, explorer, and author of David Livingstone, Africa's Greatest Explorer: The Man, the Missionary and the Myth. Audio

10:05 AM.Main songwriter for Australian group Cold Chisel, and author of the acclaimed memoir Shots, who is visiting New Zealand in April with his band. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Filmmaker and CEO of video software start-up company Wipster who is attending music, film and interactive event South By Southwest. Audio

9:05 AM.Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland; his research attempts to find out how humans and other animals, including corvids and keas, think. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Two of the six co-founders of Loomio, an online collaborative decision-making platform that has gained acclaim around the world. Audio

8:15 AM.Editor at Granta Books whose first publishing project was The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton. Audio

11:40 AM.Liam Ó Maonlaí is the frontman for Irish group The Hothouse Flowers, and has collaborated with choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan on the Fabulous Beast show, Rian, bringing eight dancers and five… Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Ulf Stark is the author of around 30 books for children and young adults, including Fruitloops and Dipsticks, My Friend Percy's Magical Gym Shoes, My Friend Percy and The Sheik, Can You Whistle… Read more Audio