Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:45 AM.Kate de Goldie discusses six "school" books: My Happy Life, Violet Mackerel's Possible Friend, Starting School, Ramona the Pest, Billy and the Big New School, and I Am Too Absolutely Small For School.

11:05 AM.American film actor, director and screenwriter, publisher and author who is visiting Auckland and Dunedin for performances that includes a slide show with dramatic narration from some of his profusely… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Groundbreaking visual and conceptual artist, sculptor, filmmaker, and musician whose documentation of his 1978 Cabbage Patch art project was purchased last year by Te Papa. Audio

9:45 AM.Lecturer on social and economic history at the University of East Anglia, and author of three books, including A Short History of the British Industrial Revolution. Audio

9:05 AM.Leading authority on human evolution, and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Reading. His new book is Wired for Culture: the Natural History of Human Cooperation, he is visiting… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Creator and founder of the Earthship concept of radically sustainable buildings made with recycled materials, who will visit Christchurch to run workshops and deliver public lectures. Audio

8:15 AM.Conservation biologist who has played a key role in bringing the tuatara back from the brink of extinction, and expert on pest management. Audio

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

11:45 AM.Teacher at Mt Roskill Grammar School, who has just made a documentary mini-series about his unique summer football training programme. Audio

11:10 AM.American writer who covers Wikileaks, transparency, whistleblowing and other civil liberties issues, and co-authored the 2012 book, Truth and Consequences: The US vs. Bradley Manning. Audio

10:15 AM.English singer-songwriter and pianist who wrote the music and lyrics for the Roger Hall play about grandparents and grandchildren, You Can Always Hand Them Back. Audio

9:45 AM.Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing the life and work of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Audio

9:05 AM.Co-founder and editor of the London Review of Books who worked closely with New Zealand illustrator and designer Peter Campbell, whose work features in an exhibition at the City Gallery Wellington. Audio

8:15 AM.American journalist and author whose new book is Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food. Audio

11:40 AM.Lepidopterist and author based in the South Island who will be speaking at the Monarch NZ Butterfly Trust conference in Auckland. Audio

11:05 AM.Mali and the Sahel Writer, sustainable agriculture specialist, and the producer of Sahel Calling, a documentary film project being made in Mali and the Sahel region of Africa. Audio

10:05 AM.Singer-songwriter in his fortieth year as a professional world touring soloist and recording artist, who uses the work of Dylan for educational sessions in high schools and is touring a show where he… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Director of architecture and design firm Creative Native, and a visual communications tutor, event organiser, community development activist, fitness instructor. He is part of creative team The Roots… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Bio-inspired engineering Professor of materials science, chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University, and a keynote speaker at the AMN6 conference in Auckland. Audio

8:35 AM.CEO of the Humanitas Foundation, which uses the philosophy of happiness to revolutionise the social and commercial approach to retirement villages in the Netherlands. He is the lead speaker at the… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.American author and journalist whose new book is To Sell Is Human: the Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing and Influencing Others. Audio

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

11:45 AM.Kate Camp has published four collections of poems. She discusses The Red Badge of Courage, the 1895 novel by American writer Stephen Crane. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Melbourne-based business consultant and writer, whose first novel, The Rosie Project, began life as a screenplay, and has been sold around the world to over thirty countries in deals approaching two… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.New Zealand playwright whose new work, Black Faggot, will premiere at the Auckland Fringe Festival and coincide with the Auckland Pride Festival. Audio