Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:35 AM.Planting time! Organic gardener Kath Irvine returns to share gardening tips and to answer your questions. Irvine counts pumpkins, squashes and beans as easy, beneficent summer crops to plant now. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.In 1920 Whanganui residents were rocked by the news that their mayor had shot D'Arcy Cresswell, a young gay poet, who had been blackmailing him. Mackay was sentenced to hard labour and later left New… Read more Audio

9:35 AM."Mr Organ is a black hole and I've fallen in," quips journalist and filmmaker David Farrier midway through his latest feature documentary, as he plays a bizarre cat and mouse game with the titular and… Read more Video, Audio

9:05 AM.Earlier this week the government announced plans to introduce hate speech legislation. Such legislation has not always proven successful, as Danish lawyer Jacob Mchangama shows in his book Free… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.More than 45,000 people, including world leaders and our own climate change minister, are descending on the resort town of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt for COP27, the annual UN climate conference, which… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Americans go to the polls next week for their midterm elections. At stake is the balance of power within the House of Representatives and the Senate. But more fundamentally - as the first elections… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Former lead singer of band Eb and Sparrow, Lamb's dreamy sound has been explained as somewhere between Nina Simone and Gillian Welch, with a glimmer of Catpower. She is about to commence a… Read more Video, Audio

10:40 AM.Protein scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week - is a computer's neural network conscious? Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Sonagachi in Kolkata (Calcutta) is the largest red-light district in Asia, with an estimated 10,000 or more sex workers in residence. It's the setting for Rijula Das' debut novel Small Deaths, a… Read more Audio

9:34 AM.What do you do with all those papers and possessions when someone close to you dies? In the case of Gerald O'Brien (1924-2017) - former Labour Party MP for Island Bay and local businessman - nephew… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:08 AM."Smashing theatre and literature together" is poet, producer and MC Freya Daly Sadgrove's mantra for Show Ponies, the hit revue that sees Aotearoa poets perform their work like pop stars: outrageous… Read more Video, Audio

8:45 AM.New Zealand's inflation rate is at a 30 year high. Across the globe, central banks are scrambling to control it without tipping their economies, and indeed the world, into recession. New Zealander… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.It’s a cliché to describe a life portrayed in film as a rollercoaster. Yet, while we know the highest highs of Dame Valerie Adams' career - five-time Olympian, two-time gold medallist, easily one of… Read more Video, Audio

11:05 AM.Award-winning music producer Joel Little talks to Kim Hill about songwriting, ambition and the brand-new music-making hub he's created in Auckland. Read more Video, Audio

10:30 AM.The knee is the largest and most complex joint in the body and retired orthopaedic surgeon Russell Tregonning is passionate about the evolving science of knee injuries and replacement surgery. In his… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Our regular art correspondent Megan Dunn has an exhibition of her own just opened at Wellington's Adam Art Gallery, revealing another long standing obsession: mermaids. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:30 AM.Sydney-based New Zealander Dr Matt Baker returns for a chat about some of the latest science news. This week: there are reports that ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harbouring an… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Indie-sleaze darlings the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back with their fifth album, Cool It Down. The New York triple-Grammy nominated band started out over two decades ago opening for the White Stripes… Read more Audio

8:40 AM. Flowing from his interest in the Colonial Office of the 1830s and how English law was brought to New Zealand, historian and lawyer Ned Fletcher argues in The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The dead do tell tales: sometimes they are the only ones who can speak to the living about the costs of civil war, terror and corruption. Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the Man Booker Prize… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Lockdown made Auckland comedian Chris Parker an Instagram sensation. He talks to Kim Hill about his recent wedding and new book Here For a Good Time: Organised Thoughts From A Disorganised Mind. Read more Video, Audio

5:35 PM.'Relentless Attrition' and 'Infernal Assault' - the names of guitarist Sally Gates's early '00s bands betray her beginnings in the Auckland death metal scene. Since, she has moved to the United States… Read more Video, Audio

4:05 PM.In a remarkable literary feat Catherine Chidgey's seventh novel The Axeman's Carnival is told entirely from the perspective of a magpie on a high country farm. T Read more Audio