Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:40 AM.New Zealand composer, pianist and arranger, who is musical director for the Canadian singer Diana Krall, and has returned to New Zealand for a tour with Roger Fox and the Wellington Jazz Orchestra. Audio

9:10 AM.National Librarian of New Zealand, responsible for the Alexander Turnbull Library and providing support for libraries and researchers throughout the country. Audio

8:30 AM.Feature documentary filmmakers whose latest film, Operation 8: Deep in the Forest, is about the 2007 police raids. Audio

8:15 AM.Editor of Nukefree.org, and author of Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth, AD 2030. Audio

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

11:45 AM.Kate discusses three new books: The Dream of the Thylacine, Small as an Elephant, and Matchless. Audio

11:05 AM.Mayor of Otorohanga, which has had great success in recent years with its youth programmes, minimising youth offending and unemployment. Audio

10:05 AM.Author of four collections of poetry, the essay On Kissing, and Kate's Klassics, a selection of her discussions with Kim Hill on classic literature. Kate is the 2011 recipient of the Creative New… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, and director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, talking about the universal language of motherese. Audio

9:05 AM.American author (Chaos, Faster) and biographer (Richard Feynman, Isaac Newton) whose new book is The Information: a History, a Theory, a Flood. Audio

8:30 AM.Auckland writer who has published twenty books of poetry and fiction, and details his experience of manic depression in the memoir, Taming the Tiger. Audio

8:15 AM.Professor of economics at George Mason University, blogger at EconLog, and author of Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than you Think. Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Professor of Philosophy at the University of London, and prolific writer and broadcaster, whose latest work is The Good Book: a Secular Bible. Audio

11:10 AM.In New Zealand briefly for a TED conference in Christchurch approaching the re-imagining of the city. Audio

11:05 AM.Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Monring show. Audio

10:10 AM.Adventurer, scientist, environmentalist, film-maker. Audio

10:05 AM.Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

9:45 AM.Acclaimed British violinist who's bringing her Naked Violin project to New Zealand. Audio

9:05 AM.English author of over 120 children's books, whose 1982 novel War Horse has been made into a stage play and film. Audio

8:40 AM.Leading young voice of the African American theatre, and international writer-in-residence to the Royal Shakespeare Company. Audio

8:05 AM.American science, health and environment writer whose latest book is Plastic: a Toxic Love Story. Audio

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

11:40 AM.Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction; her latest collection is Yellowcake, and she contributed to the Zombies Vs Unicorns short story collection. Audio

11:05 AM.Restaurant and television critic for the Sunday Times, contributing editor to Vanity Fair, GQ and Australian Gourmet Traveller, and author of new collections Here and amp; There, and A. A. Gill is… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Performance poet, storyteller, paper engineer and author of pop-up books for children Audio