Saturday Morning Podcast Options

12:00 PM.Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

11:45 AM.Kate discusses young adult novel Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool, picture book Waiting for Later by Tina Matthews, and fantasy novel The Travelling Restaurant: Jasper's Voyage in Three Parts by… Read more Audio

11:15 AM.Melbourne bookshop owner who was a pioneering figure in the antiquarian book trade; her story is told by Stuart Kells in Rare: a Life Among Antiquarian Books. Audio

10:05 AM.James Cook Research Fellow at the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study at the Albany Campus of Massey University, who has been made a Member of Germany's most prestigious academic institution, the… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Mary discusses some of her favourite works from the collection at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Audio

9:10 AM.American writer who fabricated elements of his 2003 best-seller, A Million Little Pieces, and has just published a new novel, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible. Audio

8:10 AM.Australian economist and executive director of The Australia Institute, who has just released new research about the value of things we buy and throw away without ever using. Audio

11:40 AM.Auckland cartoonist (for Metro, The Listener and the NZ Herald) who has illustrated the new book, 'Nice Day for a War: Adventures of a Kiwi Soldier in World War 1'. Audio

11:06 AM.Investigative historian, broadcaster and journalist, discussing his book about Bernie Ecclestone, the billionaire developer of Formula One Racing. Audio

10:06 AM.Vocalist for New Zealand electronic band Minuit, and author of new words and pictures collection, 'I Felt Like a Fight, Alright'. Audio

9:40 AM.Leading NZ couture and ready to wear designer whose new collection is featured at iD Dunedin Fashion Week. Audio

9:06 AM.Anglican Archdeacon, senior lecturer at Te Rau Kahikatea Theological College, St John's, and chairperson of Te Kahui Mana Ririki. Audio

8:40 AM.Auckland writer whose new book is called 'Inside Stories: A History of the New Zealand Housewife 1890-1975'. Audio

8:10 AM.Brazilian journalist who writes The Roving Eye column for Asia Times Online, talking about the Great Arab Revolt. Audio

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

11:40 AM.Professor at Harvard University who chairs the Programme in Folklore and Mythology and teaches courses in German Studies, Folklore, and Children's Literature. She visited the University of Auckland to… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Waiheke resident who is involved in the Transition Towns relocalisation movement and the Auckland Food Alliance. Audio

10:05 AM.Playing Favourites with Will and Annie Crummer - The Rarotongan musician who played a major role in Auckland's 1960s music scene, and with his daughter Annie and other musicians has just recorded his… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Cassandra Treadwell: a school in Kenya Executive Director of the non-profit organisation Global Volunteer Network Foundation Australia, which funded the building of a primary school in Nakuru, Kenya. Audio

9:05 AM.Cliff Abraham: the brain and Alzheimer's Professor in Psychology and Director of the Brain Health Research Centre at the University of Otago, and international authority on brain mechanisms of memory… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Layton Duncan: apps from Christchurch Director of Christchurch software development company Polar Bear Farm, and founder of mobile health service provider Sense Medical, and the Epicentre workspace in… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Historian of science and technology at the California Institute of Technology, and author of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Kate De Goldi discusses new books The Dreamer by Pam Munoz and Peter Sis,and The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky. Audio

11:10 AM.Author best known for her 1980 novel The Clan of the Cave Bear, and the subsequent Earth's Children series set in prehistoric Europe. Audio

10:05 AM.Creative nonfiction and fiction teacher, currently International Guest Writer at Victoria University of Wellington, and author of new novel Caribou Island. Audio