Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:08 AM.Mississippi-born jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter and producer, who is visiting New Zealand for one concert with her sextet during the Wellington Jazz Festival. Audio

9:50 AM.Founder of youth-led zero carbon advocacy group Generation Zero, and Law for Change, which is focused on public interest law. He has a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University from October. Audio

9:06 AM.Russian-American journalist whose new book is The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, and is a guest at the 2013 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. Audio

8:11 AM.Author of the new book Dirty Wars, an expose of America's covert foreign policy operations, and the producer and writer of a documentary of the same name. Audio

11:40 AM.Former NASA astronomer whose current biology PhD uses kiwi calls as the basis for revealing more about kiwi behaviour and to help provide new tools for their conservation. Audio

11:05 AM.One of Australia's foremost authorities on how to improve brain function, who writes about caring for her father during his dementia in her book, In Search of My Father. Audio

10:05 AM.Dancer, author and playwright whose latest play, Dancing in the Wake, is based on the life of Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce, and is about to tour nationwide. Audio

9:45 AM.Associate professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Center for Restless Legs Syndrome. Audio

9:05 AM.Chair of the management committee for the 2013 Ahuwhenua Trophy BNZ Maori Excellence in Farming Award, the premier award for Maori in agriculture, which marks its 80th anniversary this year. Audio

8:45 AM.Freelance researcher and activist who has been active in social, environmental and gender justice movements in South Asia for over 15 years. Audio

8:15 AM.Award-winning Scottish travel writer, historian and journalist whose latest book, Return of a King, is an analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1839. Audio

11:45 AM.Kate Camp will discuss the 1861 account by Harriet A Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Director of the Biomathematics Research Centre, Professor in the Mathematics and Statistics Department of University of Caterbury, and deputy director of the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk band Dead Kennedys who will be visiting New Zealand with his new band, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. Audio

9:45 AM.South Island Farmer of the year 2010, who manages Bonavaree Farm at Grassmere, South Marlborough, using a sustainable farming system that is resilient in extreme weather and variability. Audio

9:05 AM.Former detective senior sergeant in Counties Manukau, now technical consultant and co-writer for the new TV3 police drama series, Harry. Audio

8:30 AM.Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy (Emeritus) at Harvard University, and co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. Audio

8:10 AM.Leader of the Plasma-Wall Interactions Section in the Plasma Operation Directorate at ITER, the centre in France that is intending to make nuclear fusion the energy source of the future. Audio

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

11:45 AM.Startup accelerator director for the Lightning Lab, a twelve-week programme for nine NZ companies planning to be "investment-ready" by 15 May. Audio

11:05 AM.Venice Biennale Curator of the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, which features New Zealand artists Bill Culbert, Simon Denny, Mark Harvey, Darryn George, and Scott Eady. Audio

10:05 AM.Songwriter and vocalist who has been researching the lives of New Zealand women in the 1800s, and turning their stories into songs; currently on tour with her partner, guitarist, bouzouki and ukulele… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Journalist in New Zealand and the United States for more than twenty years; her new book is Fighting to Choose: the Abortion Rights Struggle in New Zealand. Audio

8:30 AM.Author of a number of books for young adults including the Chaos Walking trilogy, and A Monster Calls. His new novel for adults is The Crane Wife and he will be a guest at the 2013 Auckland Writers &amp… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Interim global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, an international coalition of non-governmental organisations working for a ban on fully autonomous weapons. Audio