Saturday Morning Podcast Options

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

9:45 AM.Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing the Auckland Arts Festival 2001 event White Night, which saw museums and galleries staying… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of California, and Director of Grass Genetics at the Joint Bioenergy Institute, and author of Tomorrow's Table : Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Documentary film maker, whose latest films, Client 9 : the Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer, and Freakonomics, will screen here during the World Cinema Showcase. Audio

8:12 AM.Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Centre, and author of The Emperor of All Maladies : A Biography of Cancer. Audio

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

11:45 AM.Poet and English teacher whose poem, Radiologist's Report, is one of three shortlisted in the international category of Britain's prestigious Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Audio

11:10 AM.British biographer, novelist and journalist whose latest book, Jerusalem: The Biography, is a history of 3000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. Audio

10:05 AM.Actor, producer, director and screenwriter in films such as The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, Dead Man Walking, and Bob Roberts, and singer/songwriter, coming to New Zealand with his Rogues… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Australian architect, visiting New Zealand to deliver The Dulux Futuna Lecture as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for Futuna Chapel in Wellington. Audio

9:05 AM.New Zealand journalist who has been based in Asia for four decades, who tells his story in the memoir, Reporter. Audio

8:15 AM.Editor of New Left Review, novelist, author of over 20 books on world history and politics, and the 2011 Sir Douglas Robb Lecturer at Auckland University. Audio

11:48 AM.Wellington author, publisher and broadcaster discussing books set in and around Christchurch. Audio

11:46 AM.The latest from Civil Defense. Audio

11:30 AM.The latest from Civil Defense. Audio

11:17 AM.The latest from Civil Defense. Audio