Saturday Morning Podcast Options

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

11:05 AM.Granddaughter of Ernest Adams who worked her way up through the family firm and relaunched Queen Anne Chocolates in 1998. Audio

10:05 AM.Former music editor at Australian Rolling Stone magazine and author of a number of biographies including new book Together Alone: The Story of the Finn Brothers. Audio

9:10 AM.Writer for Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic Monthly and many other publications who has just published Hitch-22: A Memoir. Audio

8:40 AM.Former Royal Navy search and rescue diver who created the ShelterBox, described by the Red Cross as the best form of primary aid for disaster victims seen in decades. Audio

8:15 AM.Infectious diseases specialist and expert on vaccines, immunology and virology. He's the author of Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine and the Search for a Cure. Audio

11:50 AM.Rare books dealer in modern English, Irish and American literature, chair of the judges for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, and author of Outside of a Dog: a Bibliomemoir. Audio

11:05 AM.Professor of English at Oxford University, critic, reviewer, broadcaster, Booker judge and the author of many books, including the biography William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies. Audio

10:10 AM.Pop singer, TV programme creator (The Fast Show), and author of adult thrillers, the Young Bond series and new youth vs zombies series, The Enemy. Audio

9:45 AM.Mackelvie Curator of International Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, discussing the work of artists Richard Bell and Tom Wilkinson at the 4th Auckland Triennial. Audio

9:05 AM.Australian novelist (Schindler's Ark) whose most recent work is the first in a three-volume history series, Australians: Origins to Eureka. Audio

8:45 AM.Author, consultant, and speaker who has been involved in online communities for over 15 years, and was one of the first people on the web to use podcasting. Audio

8:10 AM.Management editor for The Economist, and co-author of God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith is Changing the World. Audio

11:55 AM.Kim reads listeners emails Audio

11:38 AM.British author best known for His Dark Materials triogly, whose latest book is The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ Audio

11:08 AM.British economist and columnist for the Financial Times; his latest book is Obliquity:How Our Goals Are Best Pursued Indirectly Audio

9:50 AM.Director of the New Zealand Institute of Language,Brain and Behaviour, discussing multimodel speech perception. Audio

9:08 AM.Leading New Zealand photographer with shows in Wellington, Auckland and Sydney of photographs of head-and-shoulder busts Audio

8:45 AM.Chief leader writer for The Guardian newspaper since 2006 Audio

8:12 AM.Editor of Granta magazine and guest at the 2010 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.His first book is Shrinking the World: the 4,000-Year Story of how Email Came to Rule our Lives. Audio

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