Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:15 AM.Australian crime writer and former print journalist and editor, who has won widespread acclaim for his novels The Broken Shore and Truth. Audio

10:05 AM.Executive director of the New Zealand International Arts Festival, and former manager of Limbs Dance Company and the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company, Audio

9:45 AM.Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, talking about New Zealand language usage of T and L, and associated vowel sounds. Audio

9:15 AM.Information technology consultant and member of the Creative reedom Foundation, who blogs at On the Gripping Hand and is on Twitter as nzlemming, discussing the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade… Read more Audio

8:32 AM.Venture capitalist, software architect, entrepreneur and researcher in learning and social technology, who has been called"the godfather of Chinese blogging". Audio

8:15 AM.Chairman of Cycling England, who will visit here in November to speak at the seventh annual New Zealand Cycling Conference. Audio

11:45 AM.Maori language activist and senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Waikato, who has assisted in the development of the Google Translator Toolkit. Audio

11:10 AM.Australian print and broadcast journalist who has written biographies of Kerry Packer and James Packer, who nearly lost the fortune bequeathed to him by his father. Audio

11:05 AM.Kim Hill reads a selection of emails and text messages to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

10:10 AM.Singer/songwriter who is back in the music industry after 12 years with a self-released collector's edition album package that includes signed and numbered CDs, a vinyl LP, pictorial booklet, and two… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.British playwright (Plenty, Knuckle, Pravda, Stuff Happens), screenwriter (The Hours, The Reader), and theatre and film director. Audio

8:40 AM.Victoria University representative on the executive board of the New Zealand European Union Centres Network who was working as a television news producer for NBC in East Germany on the night of the… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the University of Sheffield, and director of the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme, the UK's largest ever research programme on ageing. Audio

11:30 AM.New Zealand artist, based in Hawke's Bay, who tells his story in the book, Dick Frizell: The Painter. Audio

11:10 AM.Creator of the Scary Washing Machine phenomenon on TradeMe who was honeymooning at Lalumanu Beach in Samoa when the Tsunami hit the island. Audio

11:05 AM.Kim Hill reads selected emails and texts from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

10:10 AM.American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who is touring New Zealand with Irish and New Zealand compatriots as Two Oceans Trio. Audio

9:50 AM.Kate Camp will discuss Inferno by Dante Alighieri, the first part of his epic poem The Divine Comedy. Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Chief executive of the British publishing house Faber and Faber, which celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. Audio

8:35 AM.Former speechwriter for George W Bush who writes about his disillusionment with the administration in Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor. Audio

8:10 AM.Diplomatic correspondent for the BBC and former Moscow and Washington correspondent, who hosts The Forum on the BBC World Service. Audio

11:30 AM.An interview with the renowned photographer, whose life and work is examined in a new book by Leonard Bell and appeared in the exhibition, Looking Closely. Read more Audio

11:10 AM.New Zealand chef and food writer Peter Gordon is involved with restaurants in London, Istanbul and Auckland; his sixth book is A Culinary Journey. Audio

11:05 AM.Kim Hill reads a selection of emails and texts from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme. Audio

10:05 AM.Musician, writer, academic and 1970s cultural fetishist; his memoir of the era is Glory Days: from Gumboots to Platforms. Audio