Saturday Morning Podcast Options

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

11:45 AM.Pet behaviour counsellor visiting Christchurch for a seminar, A City Good for Dogs is Great for Humans. Audio

11:08 AM.Architectural historian, designer and broadcaster best known for the television series Grand Designs. Audio

10:06 AM.Simon O'Neill, Jonathan Lemalu, Madeleine Pierard, and Sarah Castle are performing in four cities with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and guest choirs. Audio

9:35 AM.Businessman and philanthropist who, with his wife Louise, built the Whare Kea Lodge in Wanaka 15 years ago. Audio

9:06 AM.World-leading schizophrenia researcher, and Director of the Mental Health Clinical Research Center at The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Audio

8:15 AM.New Zealand journalist working for Al Jazeera English, who has been covering the Arab uprisings since the protests first erupted in Tunisia in December. Audio

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

11:45 AM.German philanthropist who has been committed to ocean conservation for 30-years and organised the recent Pacific Voyagers journey to San Francisco by six canoes from Pacific Islands. Audio

11:05 AM.Film and television producer who is about to start filming the fourth series of It's in the Bag for Maori Television. Audio

10:05 AM.National vice-president of Free Beaches NZ, who tells her life story in her book, Defying Convention: the Truth About Tony and Me. Audio

9:45 AM.President of Te Putairiki: Maori Law Students' Association at the University of Canterbury, who represented New Zealand at the Fourth Commonwealth Youth Parliament. Audio

9:05 AM.British broadcaster who writes three columns a week for The Times, and has just published her second book, How to Be a Woman. Audio

8:30 AM.Award winning British journalist and co-author of 'Rafa: My Story', the biography of Rafael Nadal, winner of nine grand slam tennis singles titles. Audio

8:12 AM.Director of African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley who has published widely on African development, social movements and oil over the past three decades. Audio

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

11:40 AM.Kath Irvine has spent years teaching permaculture and edible gardening to schools and community groups, and now runs workshops on how to grow food and create edible backyards from her Ohau garden… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Dame Anne Salmond is one of NZ's most distinguished anthropologists and historians. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, and the author of a number of award-winning books… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Darcy Nicholas is a respected painter, sculptor, writer, and curator who has exhibited internationally. His current exhibition, Land of My Ancestors, is at the Expressions Art and Entertainment Centre… Read more Audio

9:48 AM.Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She talks about the new Auckland Art Gallery, three Maori dimension commissions… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.American filmmaker, actor, writer, and shock auteur John Waters rose to fame in the early 1970s with a string of cult films. He's still making films, and is coming to NZ for the first time to perform… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Elizabeth Iorns is a New Zealand-born breast cancer researcher and entrepreneur based in Miami who has founded an online marketplace for outsourcing science experiments. She is a Research Assistant… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Cheryl Sucher is a former New Yorker who experienced 9/11 first-hand. She's now based in Havelock North but has headed back to the Big Apple for a couple of months to finish a novel. She talks about… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.David Haywood is an engineer and writer and his partner, Jen Hay is the director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour at the University of Canterbury. They describe their… Read more Audio