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11:05 AM.Whanganui-born actor Rhys Morgan has successfully established a career in Britain and Australia as drag queen Spanky. He brings his comedy cabaret show, Candice McQueen: Nasty!, to the NZ Festival for… Read more Audio

10:50 AM.Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish-born New Zealand-based poet who combines the creativity associated with the written word with the precision connected with science. Her new collection of poems, Gathering… Read more Audio

10:25 AM.Aidan Dooley is an Irish writer, director and actor who brings his production of Tom Crean - Antarctic Explorer to the NZ Festival, and to Auckland for one public performance, plus school events… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.New Zealand musician Sean O'Brien has recorded and performed with a number of various bands since the 1990s. He currently performs as Joe Blossom, and released his solo album debut, Nocturnes, in… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Kate Camp has published five collections of poems, and contributes the Kate's Klassic segment to Saturday Mornings. During Writers Week she will be chairing two German authors in a conversation around… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Dylan Horrocks is a New Zealand cartoonist best known for his 1998 book, Hicksville. His new book, Incomplete Works, collects many of his shorter comics from 1986 to 2012 and will be launched at… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Alison Bechdel has been writing, drawing, and syndicating the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For for thirty years. It has run in over fifty publications in North America and the UK, and reprinted in a… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Jennifer O'Sullivan is an improviser and producer. During the 2014 Fringe Festival, she ran the Gryphon Theatre, performed in four shows (Return to Sender, Pundemonium, Here's a Thing! Late Night… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.British astrophysicist Marcus Chown is cosmology consultant for the New Scientist, the author of many popular science books, and recipient of the 2011 Future Book Award for his iPad app The Solar… Read more Audio

11:57 AM.Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 1 March 2014. Audio

11:47 AM.Director of football activity company SportZone, and for 5-a-side, round-robin football tournament Culture Kicks. Audio

11:10 AM.One of five artists who have created Power Plant, an array of light and sound installations currently on show at Wellington's Botanic Gardens as part of the NZ Festival. Audio

10:40 AM.Co-founder of contemporary Scottish folk group Capercaillie, and artistic director of the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow. Audio

10:10 AM.Playing Favourites with veteran Filmmaker Hugh Macdonald whose restored version of 1970s documentary 'This is New Zealand' has just been released on DVD. (Music is removed in this version of the… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Playing Favourites with veteran Filmmaker Hugh Macdonald whose restored version of 1970s documentary 'This is New Zealand' has just been released on DVD. Audio

9:10 AM.Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, whose research looks at the mechanisms that allow us to perceive, interpret and act on emotional information. Audio

8:30 AM.Promoter of the virtues of fermentation through workshops, lectures, and three books who will visit Wellington soon for the New Zealand Festival. Audio

8:12 AM.Professor of politics at the University of Rhode Island, and a Fulbright research scholar in Ukraine. Audio

11:47 AM.Writer and engineer who lives in Dunsandel. Audio

11:08 AM.Professor of anaesthesiology at the Stanford University Medical Center, editor of the Journal of Anaesthesiology and Analgesia, and a world-leader on academic misconduct. Audio

10:08 AM.Peter Marshall is managing director of architectural firm Warren and Mahoney, part of the team selected to carry out the task of the redesign of Christchurch after the earthquakes. Audio

10:08 AM.Peter Marshall is managing director of architectural firm Warren and Mahoney, part of the team selected to carry out the task of the redesign of Christchurch after the earthquakes. (This version of… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Senior lecturer at Auckland University's School of Music, and the author of 'How to Hear Classical Music'. Audio

9:06 AM.President of the World Federation of Neurology who was instrumental in establishing the world's first successful acute stroke unit. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Head of the Genographic Project at National Geographic, a study that has involved the DNA sampling of more than 650,000 people in 130 countries around the world. Audio