Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:05 AM.Donald Leggett has coached a crew from the Cambridge University Boat Club in the annual boat race against Oxford University for many years and this year he's back in New Zealand with a Cambridge crew… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Alan Hall is a producer with Dunedin based documentary film company NHNZ. His latest programme, I Survived, features interviews with 9/11 survivors and recreations of events. Audio

10:06 AM.Johnny Moore is the owner of the Goodbye Blue Monday bar in Christchurch, which has been closed since the 22 February earthquake. He talks to Kim about the turbulent times since then and his career in… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Nicky Hager is an investigative journalist and author of five books including The Hollow Men. His latest publication, Other People's Wars, New Zealand In Afghanistan, Iraq and the war on terror has… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Tom Scott is a cartoonist, satirist, author and playwright. His latest project is a television docu-drama centred on the controversial 1981 Sprinkbok tour of New Zealand. Rage is the story of two… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Editor of The Press Andrew Holden talks about the twelve months since the September quake hit Christchurch, the nature of community in Christchurch after the quakes and the divided experiences of the… Read more Audio

11:58 AM.Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

11:40 AM.The well known broadcaster, actor, co-founder of Wellington's Downstage Theatre and poet talks about his new collection Coming Ashore and receiving a 2011 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Neuroscientist, writer and director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action in Texas, who has recently published Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. Audio

10:07 AM.One time member of New Zealand bands Naked Spots Dance and The Newmatics, who has a new documentary out, Rumble & Bang, about the 1960s garage rock group, Chants R&B. Audio

9:13 AM.Script writer, actor, director and teacher who most recently has written the script for Underbelly New Zealand: Land of the Long Green Cloud. Audio

8:35 AM.Geologist and marine ecologist who co-authored Volcanoes of Auckland: the Essential Guide. Audio

8:12 AM.Brazilian journalist who writes for Asia Times Online and is currently focusing on the Great Arab Revolt. Audio

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

11:45 AM.American writer who worked as a meteorologist before writing a number of best-selling fantasy books and is visiting Auckland as a guest at the Romance Writers of New Zealand conference. Audio

11:10 AM.Ceramic artist, and collector of all manner of objects, and designer for theatre and opera - most recently the set for NZ Opera's double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci. Audio

10:10 AM.Los Angeles-based English writer who has written extensively about music, particularly on the topics of dance music and drugs. His latest book is Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past. Audio

9:45 AM.Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki discusses the exhibition, Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams currently showing at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. Audio

9:10 AM.Television and theatre producer, researcher, teacher and crisis counselor who wrote the new book Positively Parkinson's, after being diagnosed with the disease. Audio

8:35 AM.Chief Executive of Governance Alive and coauthor of the book We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy, who is currently visiting New Zealand to run workshops about dynamic governance or… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Co-founder of The Front Lawn, screen actor and film director whose 1996 debut Topless Women Talk About their Lives has just been released for the first time on DVD. Audio

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

11:45 AM.Kate discusses four new books - Life: an Exploding Diagram by Mal Peet, Only Ever Always by Penni Russon, The Carbon Diaries 2015 and The Carbon Diaries 2017 by Saci Lloyd. Audio

11:30 AM.Kath Irvine runs Edible Backyard workshops from her garden in Ohau. She is talking about chickens. Audio

11:05 AM.Chef and proprietor of a number of Sydney restaurants, who will return to New Zealand for the French Lessons session at the Fisher & Paykel Master Class during Wellington on a Plate. Audio