Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:05 AM.Chief Innovation Officer for Global Information and Communications Technology Development at the World Bank who is visiting New Zealand for the official release of a master plan for making… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Lead researcher at Independent Research Solutions who spent ten years researching his new book, Patched : the History of Gangs in New Zealand. Audio

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

11:50 AM.Kate discusses three New Zealand books: The Queen and the Nobody Boy; The New Zealand Art Activity Book, and; A Winter's Day in 1939. Audio

11:07 AM.Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology and the State Geologist of Texas, who interviewed over 50 international leaders about energy for the documentary, Switch. Audio

10:30 AM.Mexican American singer-songwriter who produced two folk rock albums in the early 1970s, but disappeared from the music scene until he was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary, Searching for… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Artistic Director of Black Swan State Theatre Company in Perth, and creator of a new production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly for NZ Opera. Audio

9:35 AM.British milliner who has designed hats for some of the world's top celebrities, and is visiting New Zealand for iD Dunedin Fashion Week. Audio

9:07 AM.Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, and author of Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead. Audio

8:08 AM.Democracy advocate who initiated the total change of Iceland's political and economic system, and is visiting New Zealand for speaking engagements. Audio

11:10 AM.Gillian Flynn is an American author and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Her third novel, Gone Girl, has topped best-seller and Best-of-2012 lists around the world. Audio

11:06 AM.Arturo Arias is a Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Texas, a critical theorist and novelist. He is delivering a public lecture, Oxlajuj B'aqtun: Not the End but a New… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Taranaki artist Marianne Muggeridge has worked as a painter for the past 40 years, creating portraits of many New Zealanders including Professor Sir Paul Callaghan, Alan MacDiarmid and Don Brash, and… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Lone Frank is a journalist and author with a PhD in neurobiology. As a staff writer at Weekendavisen, Denmark's leading newspaper, she is Denmark's most distinguished science writer and a well-known… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Jon Lee Anderson began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998 and became a staff writer in 1999. He has written several books, reported frequently from Iraq, and has covered the conflicts in… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who broke the story of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, and the story of the US military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib… Read more Audio

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

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