Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:59 AM.Kim Hill reads listener feedback for Saturday Morning for 6 November 2021. Audio

11:40 AM.Sydney-based New Zealander Dr Matt Baker returns for a chat about some of the latest science news. This week we revisit the topic of pachyderms, and some of Baker's own research around so-called DNA… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Never shy of dealing with controversy, Luit Bieringa has often tackled complex and flawed New Zealand cultural figures in his films. In his new film, Signed, Theo Schoon, Bieringa turns his attention… Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.Otaki-based playwright Renée has many feathers in her cap, having written numerous plays and nine fiction novels - the latest being her first venture into crime writing, The Wild Card, which she… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Rafia Zakaria's latest book of essays Against White Feminism bills itself as a counter-manifesto to "white feminism's global, long-standing affinity with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Writer Danyl McLauchlan returns to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week: in the 2010s readers devoured the four-book series known as the Neapolitan Novels, written under the… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Quintessential cantankerous New Yorker Fran Lebowitz is finding fame with a new generation of fans thanks to Scorsese-directed docu-series Pretend It's A City. Lebowitz, who was drawn to the Big Apple… Read more Video, Audio

8:40 AM.A team led by Professor Renate Meyer from the University of Auckland has received $3 million from the Marsden Fund to further their project deciphering gravitational waves - ripples in space-time… Read more Video, Audio

8:10 AM.Fifty years ago Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of the US involvement in the Vietnam War. Ellsberg is a firm supporter of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 30 October 2021. Audio

11:06 AM.Award-winning journalist Steve Braunias has spent many years sifting through op shops to amass a collection of New Zealand pressed records that provide a fascinating window into our culture of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:35 AM.When filmmaker Jan Oliver Lucks (aka Ollie) and his girlfriend got engaged, they decided to do away with the tradition of monogamy and take the plunge into an open relationship. But things didn't… Read more Video, Audio

10:06 AM.Maata Wharehoka (Ngati Tahinga, Ngati Koata, Ngati Apakura, Ngati Toa, Ngati Kuia) lives with a painful lung disease - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD. Her chronic pain is such that… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.British actress, activist and dedicated royalist Joanna Lumley is busier than she's ever been with multiple projects on the go, but somehow she's managed to find time to curate and edit a book… Read more Video, Audio

8:35 AM.At 15 years old Mikayla Cahill learned she was supposed to have been born a boy. Mikayla was born with an intersex condition called complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, meaning she started to… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.A senate panel in Brazil has backed a report calling for criminal charges against president Jair Bolsonaro for his handling of the Covid pandemic, including crimes against humanity. Professor Idelber… Read more Audio

4:35 PM.Dame Cindy Kiro became New Zealand's first female Maori governor-general when she was sworn in at a ceremony at parliament this week. Read more Audio

11:59 AM.Kim Hill reads listener feedback for Saturday Morning 23 October 2021. Audio

11:35 AM.Organic gardener Kath Irvine returns to share some tips around spring gardening and to answer your questions. This week her topics include building your own compost and ensuring healthy citrus trees.

11:05 AM.In the mid-1970s artist Fiona Clark pushed the envelope with her vivid photographs of Auckland's burgeoning queer scene. Four decades later, a new documentary directed by Lula Cucchiara recounts how… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.British actress Miriam Margolyes talks to Kim Hill about her charming, funny and often serious new memoir This Much Is True. Read more Video, Audio

9:35 AM.Megan Dunn joins the show to discuss the intersection of art and life, looking at the ways art is and isn't good for our wellbeing. This week, what art hangs on the walls of the hospital and why? Read more Audio, Gallery

8:38 AM.The debut novel from Nathan Harris has received high praise and has been added to Barack Obama's summer reading list, selected for Oprah's Book Club, and longlisted for The 2021 Booker Prize. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Tensions between China and Taiwan have been described as the worst in 40 years after the Chinese air force intensified its overflights into the Taiwanese air defence zone earlier this month. Susan… Read more Audio

6:07 PM.A global pioneer in the science of canopy ecology, Meg Lowman has been dubbed 'Einstein of the Treetops' by The Wall Street Journal. In other circles she is affectionately known as Canopy Meg. Read more Audio