Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:15 AM.Editor of British quarterly magazine Intelligent Life and rock critic at The Mail on Sunday, talking about the growth of sport in business and media around the world. Audio

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

11:40 AM.Lecturer at the Elam School of Fine Arts, and the Govett-Brewster New Zealand Artist in Residence, whose latest exhibition is an archival project on memorial halls throughout New Zealand. Audio

10:05 AM.Oklahoma-based singer and guitarist, known since the 1950s as the Queen of Rock-a-billy. She has just recorded a new album with producer Jack White, and will play shows in Wellington and Auckland… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, and director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, discussing how metaphors relating to spatial movement… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Oriental Doctor of Medicine and Associate Professor at the Harvard Medical School, where he researches the placebo effect. Audio

8:45 AM.British environmentalist who rowed solo across the Atlantic, and is the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean. Last Friday she finished the final leg of the three-stage journey, designed to… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.English writer and broadcaster, who has written two books about football, and a new book about mathematics: Alex's Adventures in Numberland. Audio

11:50 AM.Kate De Goldi discusses two books by Doug Cooney (The Beloved, and I Know Who Likes You), and one by Kathi Appelt (The Underneath). Audio

11:10 AM.Writer and performer, whose new creative non-fiction book, This Barren Rock, tells the story of the 1875 wreck of the Strathmore, survived by her great-great-great-grandmother. Audio

10:55 AM.Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

10:05 AM.Musician in South Island group The Renderers and painter since the mid-1990s, returned from time in Berlin and Beijing for a new exhibition, Inland Sea. Audio

9:40 AM.Brazilian choreologist in New Zealand to oversee the dance notation for Dutch choreographer Didy Veldman's ballet of Bizet's Carmen for the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Audio

9:05 AM.Contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review, and teacher at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, discussing how the 1959 book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan marked the beginning of… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.General Manager of the Commercialisation team at Viclink, and manager of the development of the Wetox wet air oxidation clean technology project, converting liquid organic sludge into usable… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.One of the world's foremost thinkers on dyslexia and creator of Britain's Dyslexia Friendly Schools concept, visiting NZ to present workshops to teachers and meet with the Ministry of Education with… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia, author of many non-fiction books and six volumes of poetry in English… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Former teacher, principal and mayor, who has written more than 35 books for young people and a memoir, Telling Tales: a Life in Writing. Audio

9:45 AM.Kate Camp discusses the 1873 novel Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, translated by Michael Glencross. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.British stage and screen actor (Gandalf in Lord of the Rings), currently on tour with a production of Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot, visiting NZ in June and July. Audio

8:30 AM.Member of the National Academy of Sciences and former president of the American Association for Cancer Research; her work played a vital role in the development of a multi-billion-dollar anti-tumor… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Writer, blogger, art curator and consultant, and self-styled cultural curmudgeon columnist for the Listener magazine, currently visiting New Orleans. Audio

11:50 AM.Kim Hill reads emails and text messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

11:40 AM.Kate discusses Fearless by Tim Lott, Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson and The Death-Defying Pepper Roux by Geraldine McCaughrean. Audio