Saturday Morning Podcast Options

7:05 PM.Tūhoe artist and activist Tame Iti reflects on the production of the recently released film Muru and his I Will Not Speak Māori exhibition in an extensive interview with RNZ's Kim Hill. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:35 PM.Back in 1992 cult Portland garage rock trio Dead Moon skipped the chance to play with Nirvana to do a 20-show tour of New Zealand, gaining many ardent fans here in the process. This month sees the… Read more Video, Audio

11:55 AM.Listener Feedback for 3 September 2022. Audio

11:05 AM.Emily Perkins is acclaimed as a novelist and short story writer, but her career started as an actor graduating from Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School in 1989. In her playwriting debut In 2015… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The relationship humans have with our canine friends is more established and, arguably, deeper than with any other animal. In Wonderdog: How the Science of Dogs Changed the Science of Life, author… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The New Zealand diet is particularly bad for the planet due to the vast amount of land required to produce food for it, says environmental campaigner and author George Monbiot. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.After a five-year hiatus, Sophie Henderson is making a return to the theatre for the lead role in the ferociously feminist and gloriously meta play, The Writer. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Dr Deidre Brown has a life-long interest in the relationship between Maori and early Christian missionaries. Read more Audio, Gallery

10:04 AM.In November 2019, Zarifa Ghafari became the mayor of Maidan Shahr, the capital city of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. She is one of the only female mayors in Afghan history and the youngest - appointed… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.What has 90s rave culture got to offer the anxious 2020s? Back in the mid-90s Nelson-based artist Josephine Cachemaille was cofounder and general manager of The Gathering, described as "New Zealand's… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:04 AM.The Right Honourable Trevor Mallard resigned as Speaker of the House this week after 35 years as a Member of Parliament. He will soon take up a three-year posting in Dublin as our second resident… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Set in Renaissance Italy, Maggie O'Farrell's ninth novel The Marriage Portrait imagines the lost story of Lucrezia de' Medici, who was betrothed to the Duke of Ferrara at age 13. Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Music writer and reviewer Nick Bollinger traces through a somewhat turbulent time in our past with new book Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of Counterculture in New Zealand Aotearoa. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

10:45 AM.There's a contemporary drive for artificial intelligence to be more precise and, in being so, more human. Yet some argue that our lack of precision is at the core of what actually makes us human… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Ben Novak was 14 years old when he decided to dedicate his life to resurrecting extinct animals. Now, aged 35, Novak is a de-extinction biologist with Revive & Restore, an American organisation aiming… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:40 AM.What's your favourite artwork and why? Starting with her own picks, art critic and author Megan Dunn contemplates the point of art, how we use it, and why we enjoy it. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:10 AM.In the 1960s June Nelson and her husband, renowned ornithologist Bryan Nelson, spent a "madcap" year camping in the Galápagos Islands to study the abundant birdlife. Read more Audio, Gallery