Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:05 AM.Jemima Khan drew on her own experience of cross cultural marriage, to former Pakistani prime minister and cricketer Imran Khan, when writing her new film What's Love Got to Do With it. Read more Video, Audio

9:45 AM.Scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. Today he's untangling the somewhat slippery term 'Neoliberalism', which is used to describe the… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.It's been a decade since New Zealand author Eleanor Catton's novel The Luminaries won the Man Booker Prize, making then 28-year-old Catton the youngest author ever to win the award. This week she… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Incurably affable Welsh actor, comedian and impressionist Rob Brydon is perhaps best known for The Trip TV series and movie where he and Steve Coogan explore the world and middle-age together. He and… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Cuba St's Matterhorn bar was the epitome of Wellington cool in the late 1990's and early 21st Century. The venue was a magnet for a new generation of musicians, creatives and entrepreneurs. It was… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Author and art writer Megan Dunn joins Kim to share the work of Otepoti based artists Joe L'Estrange and Nick Austin. Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Last year eccentric English singer-songwriter John Otway celebrated his 5000th show. Yet it's taken till this month for him to tour New Zealand. Self-dubbed "rock n roll's greatest failure", in 1977… Read more Video, Audio

9:30 AM.In Fear: New Zealand's hostile underworld of extremists Christchurch activist Byron C Clark traces the roots of the occupation to the reemergence of the alt-right. A video essayist on Youtube, Clark… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Set in 1940s rural Trinidad, Kevin Jared Hosein's debut novel Hungry Ghosts reflects on the fractures left for the Southern Caribbean island by a complex colonial legacy. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Professor of quantum physics Michelle Simmons believes new worlds will open up to humanity if we better understand how nature works at an atomic scale. In June her team at Silicon Quantum Computing at… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.In Sarah Polley's new film Women Talking, a group of Mennonite women who've been sexually abused secretly gather in a barn to discuss their future. The Canadian actor-director says that despite the… Read more Video, Audio

11:30 AM.The world of tabletop roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons has been shaken by a major fracas in its community. Tabletop gaming has experienced a major rise in popularity in recent years… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.An out-of-the-blue email claiming to be from a relative inspired funky blues artist Fantastic Negrito's acclaimed album White Jesus Black Problems. It saw him follow his family tree back seven… Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.Auckland Zoo's centenary is being marked by an exhibition and a book, 100 Years, 100 Stories, revealing how much the zoo's role has changed over that time. Last year the zoo also opened their biggest… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:10 AM.A professor in physics, psychology and art, Richard Taylor believes the bio-inspired technology he is developing with a team at the University of Oregon could one day lead to a bionic eye. Taylor is… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Robyn Malcolm's screen portrayal of crime-matriarch-gone-straight(ish) Cheryl West in Outrageous Fortune made her a household name but her repertoire extends far beyond West Auckland. It's been a busy… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Sustainable growth was the focus of the recent World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, but how realistic is this goal, and what would it look like? The idea of degrowth, as a counter to the… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Kim Hill talks to Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown about the devastating flooding that hit the city. Audio

8:10 AM.Kim Hill talks to Minister for Emergency Management Kieran McAnulty, Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown, and RNZ reporter Rowan Quinn. Read more Audio