Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:45 AM.Lepidopterist based in the South Island who has co-authored several books and worked at the Department of Conservation, Otago Museum and Alexandra Museum. Audio

11:10 AM.Filmmaker (Talkback, Kitchen Sink, Crush, Jesus' Son) who selected the finalists for the annual Best Short Film competition at the New Zealand International Film Festival. Audio

10:10 AM.Writer and producer for television and film, whose self-published novel The Keeper of Secrets, landed her an international publishing deal. Audio

9:45 AM.Entrpreneur and investor who relocated to Wellington from Chicago, where he was involved with the entrepreneurial centre, 1871. Audio

9:10 AM.Peace activist who grew up as the son of an Israeli general then became supportive of the Palestinian cause. He tells his story in The General's Son. Audio

8:45 AM.Award-winning photographer and aristic director for Project Pressure, which is documenting the world's glaciers to create an open source archive and atlas. Audio

8:15 AM.American humorist whose new collection of essays is titled Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls. Audio

11:45 AM.Physics student at the University of Canterbury, and winner of the inaugural Sir Paul Callaghan Award for Young Science Orators at the 2012 Eureka Symposium. Audio

11:05 AM.Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, who has published on a number of topics including conspiracy theories. Audio

10:05 AM.Award-winning British writers of children's and young adult fiction, who have been based in Wellington while Mal teaches a writing course. Audio

9:45 AM.Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing Modernisme and Modernism in Spanish architecture. Audio

9:05 AM.World leader in bioinformatics and one of Australia's most important statisticians, whose work has helped to identify ares of the human genome that contribute to cancer. Audio

8:15 AM.Publisher and editor of Boiling Frogs Post, author of the 2012 memoir Classified Woman, and the founder and president of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition. Audio

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

11:45 AM.Poet Kate Camp discusses the 1934 novel by P.G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Professor of ecology, evolution and behaviour at the University of Minnesota, and author of Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet and How We Live. Audio

10:10 AM.Co-host of pub politics television programme Back Benches and author of Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: A Manifesto for Living the Slow Life. Audio

9:40 AM.German migrant who established the Atiu Fibre Arts Studio on the remote South Pacific tropical island of Atiu. Audio

9:05 AM.American environmentalist, author, and journalist who led the organisation of 350.org, and will visit New Zealand on his Do the Maths Tour. Audio

8:30 AM.Filmmaker whose new documentary, The Act of Killing, features unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads. Audio

8:15 AM.Asia Pacific Inhumane Culling Campaign Manager for the World Society for the Protection of Animals, who runs the mass dog vaccination programme, Collars not Cruelty, in Bangladesh. Audio

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

11:45 AM.Author of The Queen and the Nobody Boy, a finalist in the Junior Fiction sections of the 2013 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, and 2013 LIANZA Esther Glen Medal. Audio

11:05 AM.New Zealand entrepreneur (Hyperfactory, Booktrack, Snakk Media), who tells his story in the new how-to book, Heart to Start. Audio

10:10 AM.Webmaster at Radio New Zealand, where his team has just relaunched the radionz.co.nz website. Audio