Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:35 AM.Vice President of Exhibits & Archives for Ripley Entertainment, Inc., the company that operates more than 80 attractions, in 11 countries worldwide. Audio

11:05 AM.Writer of novels, short stories, plays, poems and non-fiction, and Robert Burns fellow 2011 at the University of Otago. Her new travel book of essays and poems is The Broken Book. Audio

10:05 AM.New Zealand composer whose new opera, Hohepa, will receive its world premiere with the New Zealand Opera staging at the 2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival. Audio

9:35 AM.Senior Associate of the Institute of Policy Studies at Victoria University whose specialist area of knowledge is the migration of Maori to Australia. Audio

9:10 AM.Farmer and forester in Motatau, Northland, who has been an Environmental Commissioner with the Environment Court since 2003, and involved with many boards and committees for the last 20 years. Audio

8:37 AM.Recent New Zealand citizen who is trying to recreate the best parts of San Francisco in Wellington, and has co-founded Retake The Net to help keep the internet free and open. Audio

8:10 AM.Writer for The Irish Times, whose most recent book is Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic. He discusses the Irish presidential election. Audio

11:40 AM.Long-time journalist and author; his new book is Christchurch Heritage: a Celebration of Lost Buildings and Streetscapes. Audio

11:10 AM.Professional actor for stage, film, radio and television since the 1960s, who has a role in the new play, Sex Drive, at Circa Theatre in Wellington. Audio

10:08 AM.New Zealand-born, London-based writer on music and culture; his new travelogue memoir is Sweet As: Journeys in a New Zealand Summer. Audio

9:40 AM.Director and general manager of Leitissimo, a New Zealand-owned company that runs the largest pastoral dairy farm in Brazil. Audio

9:08 AM.2011 New Zealander of the Year, Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences at Victoria University, Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College Cambridge, and a part of the team staging the 2012… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Writer for the New York Times and author of the new book, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back. Audio

11:45 AM.Ohau gardener who runs Edible Backyard workshops, talking about preparing beds for tomatoes and growing salads during the summer months. Plus Kim goes in depth about the creepy crawlies in her garden.

11:28 AM.Judge of the District and Family Courts in Auckland and poet, on his first collection; Briefcase. Audio

11:10 AM.Committee member of the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society Inc., which has organised the exhibition Behind the Mask: Rediscovered Portraits of Katherine Mansfield in Wellington. Audio

10:08 AM.Weta Workshop's Lead Conceptual Designer on the upcoming Steven Spielberg movie The Adventures of Tintin and author and art director of The Art of the Adventures of Tintin. Audio

9:30 AM.One of the world's top mountaineers on her memoir Wind from a Distant Summit: the Story of New Zealand's Leading Woman Mountaineer. Audio

9:07 AM.Author of four collections of poetry and 2011 recipient of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency who is currently at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Audio

8:15 AM.Founder of social development project Asha, which operates in the slums of West Delhi. Audio

11:55 AM.Kim reads emails and text messages from listeners Audio

11:42 AM.Author of a number of books, including The 10pm Question which won the 2011 Corine International Book Prize Young Readers Award, who has been speaking at the Edinburgh Festival and touring the UK… Read more Audio

11:13 AM.Head of Massey University's Institute of Design for Industry and Environment, President of the Designers Institute of New Zealand, and convenor of the product judges at this year,s Best Design awards.

10:09 AM.Founder of record label Loop Recording Aot(ear)oa, which is celebrating its ten-year anniversary, and executive producer of the concert show Fly My Pretties Audio

9:36 AM.Deputy Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Auckland, whose new book is psychology for a Better World: Strategies to Inspire Sustainability. Audio