Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:45 AM.Author and art writer Megan Dunn joins Kim to talk about the pros and cons of having prizes for art. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.It's a myth that great art must come from pain, says American musician Lucinda Williams, but the "certain amount of suffering" she's lived through does get put to use. "When I'm writing I can just dip… Read more Video, Audio

10:47 AM.There's strong hope this winter that the ice will be right for the Baxter Cup, New Zealand's oldest sporting trophy. The cup is for outdoor curling, yet bonspiels (curling tournaments) are… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:08 AM.Are humans really the smartest animal? Animal cognition expert Dr Justin Gregg thinks maybe not. In his new book If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal, he examines our exceptional brain power and finds it… Read more Audio

9:28 AM.Last month it was reported that children in the UK had been born using mitochondrial donation, eight years after the technique was regulated. The IVF procedure uses genetic material from a mother and… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Best-selling Latin American author Isabel Allende's new book The Wind Knows My Name reveals the brutal reality and lasting trauma caused by forced immigration and family separation. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Former basketball player and chef Jenny Nguyen became increasingly frustrated by the lack of women's sports playing at the bars she hung out in. So, in 2022 she used her life savings to open the… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Matt Baker returns for a chat about some of the latest science news. This week: why a single shot of gene therapy may replace surgical sterilisation for cats. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.American musician Kevin Morby pays tribute to the power of family photo albums in his 2022 song 'This Is A Photograph'. Now he's inviting others to upload their own nostalgic take on the song to the… Read more Video, Audio

10:42 AM.Mental illness may seem an unlikely subject for a musical, but in the US Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal has won not only Tony Awards but a Pulitzer Prize. Director of its Christchurch… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.This month Kiwa Hammond has been part of an Aotearoa contingent in Germany to retrieve skeletal remains of karapuna, Ta Imi Moriori ancestors of Rekohu (the Chatham Islands) and Maori tipuna from… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.It's generally true that the ability to get good sleep declines as we get older, says world-leading chronobiologist Philippa Gander. One of the best-known ways to increase the amount of slow-wave… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.When UK based New Zealand writer Margaret Meyer visited a local museum in the town of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, it sent her on a mission to uncover the story of a group of women accused of being witches… Read more Audio

8:31 AM.Would you like to be paid a basic income, no matter what? In the UK, a proposed trial would see 30 people paid an unconditional sum of about NZ$3295 a month for two years to see what effect it has on… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.New treatments for pancreatic cancer are urgently needed. Yet, results from a small study published recently suggest that bespoke messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines that prime a patient's immune system to… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Nomad gardener and The Edible Backyard author Kath Irvine has parked up the house truck and settled down for winter in Golden Bay. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Australian Suzie Miller's play Prima Facie has been called "one of the most electrifying pieces of theatre on Broadway" and this year won an Olivier Award following a Westend run. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Danish adventurer, filmmaker and writer Thor F. Jensen completed a 6300km circumnavigation of the Island of New Guinea in a traditional outrigger sailing canoe.- a world-first achieved in… Read more Video, Audio

10:05 AM.English actor Dame Penelope Wilton's warm smile will be familiar to fans of Downton Abbey, Doctor Who and the Ricky Gervais series Afterlife. Her new film The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a… Read more Video, Audio

9:35 AM.Do we hear music differently across cultures? What about between the sexes? And does singing to a baby improve their mental health? These are some of the questions The Music Lab's Principal… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.When a major league US baseball team recently picked a fight with a group of queer and trans 'nuns', they struck out. After announcing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence would be honoured with a… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:45 AM.This week the government released a Safer Online Services and Media Platforms "discussion document" proposing to regulate online content the same way other media is regulated. Read more Audio

8:10 AM. Once upon a time, perhaps, there was no time. Read more Audio

2:08 PM.About 1 in 6 New Zealanders live with chronic pain. Psychologist Dr Rachel Zoffness believes that medical treatment of chronic pain often fails because it is based on a flawed model of how pain… Read more Audio