Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:05 AM.Artist, academic, kaitiaki and Research Leader Ma-ori for Manaaki Taha Moana and the Horowhenua case study. Her exhibition, Rae ki te Rae/Face to Face, is at City Gallery Wellington. Audio

10:05 AM.American jazz and blues guitarist and singer currently touring New Zealand. Audio

9:42 AM.Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery discusses: John Panting: Spatial Constructions; Peter Robinson: Cuts and Junctures; and State of the Art: Reproductive Prints from the Renaissance to Now. Audio

9:05 AM.Former Prime Minister of New Zealand who writes about his life in Reform: A Memoir. Audio

8:15 AM.Principal Research Associate in the Genetics, Evolution & Environment department of University College London, author of The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science, currently touring New… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Physiotherapist, and creator of the Backpod, a spinal therapy device designed to address the widespread and growing problem of upper back hunch caused by the upsurge in use of mobile devices. Audio

11:05 AM.Senior writer with the New Zealand Listener, who won best magazine feature writer at the 2013 Canon Media Awards, and has just published Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.American author, screenwriter and accordionist best known for his children's books, A Series of Unfortunate Events, under the pen name of Lemony Snicket. Audio

9:35 AM.Auckland cartoonist and author of From Earth's End: The Best of New Zealand Comics, the first major book dedicated to the subject. Audio

9:05 AM.Wireless power Leaders of the Inductive Power Transfer Team at the University of Auckland, who won the $500,000 Prime Minister's Science Prize for 2013 for a transformative discovery or achievement in… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.World authority on The Beatles and author of The Beatles: Tune In, the first volume in a planned trilogy, covering the years leading up to the eve of the group's great breakthrough. Audio

11:45 AM.Secretary General of the Asia-Oceania Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics speaking about the International Day and International Year of Medical Physics. Audio

11:05 AM.British journalist, broadcaster and author who has written many celebrated original novels, as well as an official James Bond novel, and now a homage to P.G. Wodehouse: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells. Audio

10:05 AM.Editor of Home New Zealand magazine, judge on TV series The Block, and author of new book, Modern: New Zealand Homes from the 1940's to the 1970's. Audio

9:45 AM.Research Associate at the Natural History Museum of Utah, and lead author on the study of the newly discovered dinosaur Lythronax Argestes, nicknamed the 'King of Gore'. Audio

9:05 AM.New Zealand art curator and writer, and author of Peter McLeavey : The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Author of eight novels for young adults, and 2013 winner of the Menton Fellowship to France. Audio

8:15 AM.American writer and publisher of The Dissenter blog at Firedoglake.com, where he regularly covers the NSA, whistleblowing, and other civil liberties issues. Audio

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