Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:05 AM.Laura is the Director of Adelaide Writers' Week at the Adelaide Festival, and Kate is the author of a number of books. They discuss the year in publishing and their books of 2011. Audio

8:30 AM.Transsexual nightlife entrepreneur in 1970s Wellington who spent most of her later life in Sydney. She died on 15 December 2011.

Originally broadcast on 25 January 2003. Audio

11:45 AM.Gardener and tutor who runs Edible Backyard workshops from her garden in Ohau, discussing summer gardening and watering. Audio

11:10 AM.New Zealand playwright, theatre director and teacher, whose play Peninsula will be staged during the New Zealand International Arts Festival 2012. Audio

10:05 AM.Founder and conductor of The Sixteen, one of the world's great period endembles (comprising both choir and period-instrument orchestra). Audio

9:45 AM.Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery - Toi o Tamaki, discussing the work of the Italian architects Andrea Palladio and Carlo Scarpa, and sculptor Antonio Canova. Audio

9:05 AM.Co-founder of the early wireless network community in the UK, director of the Green Bench project room in Whanganui, and creator of a time zone that responds to movement for a group show at The Dowse… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Student at Diocesan School for Girls who has won the Royal Society's Realise the Dream competition, and the $50,000 Prime Minister's Future Scientist Prize. Audio

8:15 AM.Former Moscow correspondent for The Guardian, and author of the book Mafia State. Audio

11:59 AM.Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

11:40 AM.Kate De Goldi talking about Monacello the Little Monk by Geraldine McCaughrean, The Christmas Eve Ghost by Shirley Hughes, and Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link. Audio

11:10 AM.Toronto-based Australian chef and writer talking about her new book, Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal. Audio

10:05 AM.Delaney Davidson is a a New Zealand musician who has been touring the world constantly for the last ten years, and is playing gigs in New Zealand in support of his new album, Bad Luck Man. Audio

9:40 AM.New Zealand photographer and publisher whose new book is Ghosts in the Landscape. Audio

9:05 AM.CEO at Van Leer Ventures Jerusalem, one of Israel's leading high-technology incubators. Audio

8:35 AM.New Zealand screen actor who won Best Supporting Actress 2011 for the film Matariki, and is currently onscreen in new film Rest for the Wicked. Audio

8:10 AM.Managing editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism which has published an undercover investigation into the activities of one of Britain's top lobbying firms. Audio

4:06 PM.Kim Hill talks to best-selling author and TV personality, Professor Joe Schwarcz from McGill University, Canada. Audio

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

11:50 AM.Structural engineer, who is off on a ski trip with nine friends following the Silk Road across asia, the Middle East and Europe. Audio

11:25 AM.Leader of a group at the Sanger Institute Malaria Programme that recently published research on the prospect of developing a vaccine against malaria. Audio

10:05 AM.Retiring chief executive of the New Zealand Sypmhony Orchestra, who will conduct the NZSO in two free musical workshops on how to listen to a symphony. Audio

9:45 AM.Wellington photographer talking about Rupert Julian, New Zealand's least-known world-famous Hollywood star. Audio

9:05 AM.World-renowned linguist who was keynote speaker at a recent symposium focusing on the survival of Maori and Pasifika languages. Audio

8:35 AM.Chair of the international collaborative body Ocean Energy Systems, who is also involved with marine energy advocates Awatea, and energy industry consultancy Power Projects Limited. Audio