Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:50 AM.Auckland-based producer and rapper Mainard Larkin, who performs under the alias Randa. Audio

11:45 AM.Creator of Think: Tree (Omoutautahi), a solo comedy about the theft of a bonsai tree from the Christchurch botanic gardens. Audio

11:30 AM.Writer for children, whose new book, The Princess and the Foal, is based on the story of HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of Jordan. Audio

11:05 AM.Playwright, actor and director, and member of the theatre company My Accomplice. Audio

10:30 AM.Auckland author, poet and rapper who last year completed an artist's residency in Iceland writing a novel. Audio

10:20 AM.Country singer, songwriter, musician, actress, entrepreneur and philanthropist who returns to New Zealand next year for the first time in over three decades. Audio

10:05 AM.New Zealand rapper and producer of Samoan and European descent who has just released his third album, Falling Into Place. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at the Auckland University of Technology, Chair of the Gothic Association of New Zealand of New Zealand and Australia, and author of The Vampire in… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.New Zealand freelance journalist resident in San Francisco who is running a Kickstarter appeal to turn his blog, Voyages in America, into a book. Audio

9:05 AM.Member of JustSpeak, a non-partisan network of young people speaking up for a new generation who want change in our criminal justice system. Audio

8:55 AM.New Zealand journalist and poet living and working in New York. Audio

8:45 AM.Chief Censor at the Office of Film & Literature Classification discussing their survey of 16 to 18 year olds. Audio

8:10 AM.President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, who visited Wellington this week for the annual conference of Family Planning New Zealand. Audio

11:40 AM.American clinical psychologist who pioneered the research into highly sensitive people, and is visiting New Zealand next month. Audio

11:05 AM.Writer of novels, autobiographical novellas and essays who has published two books this year : young adult fantasy novel Mortal Fire, and literary horror novel Wake. Audio

10:05 AM.Former artistic director of Downstage, and interim Director at the New Zealand Drama School, who was part of the group that launched the National Theatre of Great Britain, which celebrates its 50th… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Creator of Tim Winton's The Turning, a "cinema event" based on the Australian novelist's best-selling 2005 short story collection. Audio

9:05 AM.Conservation Officer of the Amphibian Survival Alliance, co-founder of Frame of Mind, and creator of the photographic exhibition Metamorphosis, visiting Dunedin for the biennial ScienceTeller… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Writer of novels about crime and football, most recently Red or Dead, about manager Bill Shankly and the rise of the Liverpool Football Club. Audio

11:55 AM.Susie Ferguson reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 19 October. Audio

11:40 AM.Stage and screen actress who won an Academy Award for Moonstruck, and stars in Cloudburst, as half of an elderly lesbian couple who embark on a road trip. Audio

11:05 AM.Owner of a transmission business in Manurewa, and one of the interviewees in She's Got Breast Cancer. Audio

10:05 AM.Emmy-nominated choreographer, director, and producer who has created work for artists including Janet Jackson, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Madonna, and the late Michael Jackson. Audio

9:40 AM.Editor of the dramatised documentary 3D film, Beyond the Edge, about the first ascent of Mount Everest. Audio

9:05 AM.Psychotherapist, and author of Manufacturing Depression, and The Book of Woe: the DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry. Audio