Saturday Morning Podcast Options

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

8:10 AM.Finding ground somewhere between memoir and history book, Fintan O'Toole documents the spectacular changes that have occurred in Ireland over the past six decades in his latest book We Don't Know… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Rising musical theatre star Rutene Spooner is getting ready to hit the road with his show Thoroughly Modern Maui, in which the tricky demigod gets a modern-day makeover. Spooner wrote and performs in… Read more Video, Audio

10:40 AM.Traces of poliovirus in New York's sewage system have health authorities concerned a recent case could be the tip of the iceberg. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.A new documentary about the Gloriavale Christian Community follows a lone family as they mount a ground-breaking legal case against the community's powerful leaders, known as the shepherds. Read more Video, Audio

9:35 AM.A newly unveiled fossil fish called Qikiqtania wakei is thought to have shunned the forward march of evolution, eschewing the ability to walk and deciding to stay in the water. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Los Angeles-based author Rachel Kushner covers diverse ground in her new collection of essays, from illegal motorbike racing on Baha Peninsula to recounting time spent in a Palestinian refugee camp. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Britain's leading biographer Tom Bower has turned his sights on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for his latest offering, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors. Read more Audio

4:35 PM.Self-described "book detective" and literary scholar at Harvard University, Vanessa Braganza has recently uncovered what she believes to be a long-overlooked example of defiance by the first wife of… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.While New Zealand comedy is often branded as self-deprecating, laconic and deadpan, media studies lecturer Nick Holm says the defining characteristic is that it's a bit s**t. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 6 August 2022. Audio

11:07 AM.A year on from the fall of Kabul, Australian reporter Lynne O'Donnell returned to Afghanistan, and now says she'll never go back. O'Donnell returned for three days last month, only to be detained… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Largely ignored following its release on Leonard Cohen's 1984 album Various Positions, 'Hallelujah' took a long, winding road to become a modern day anthem, covered by hundreds of artists around the… Read more Video, Audio

9:07 AM.Award-winning investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe paints deeply human portraits of victims and vigilantes alike in his latest page-turner, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Monkeypox cases continue to rise globally with more than 26,000 now confirmed in at least 75 different countries, including New Zealand. There is however a global shortage of vaccines to combat the… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Considered one of the world's great violinists, American Hilary Hahn is a three-time Grammy Award winner passionate about making classical music more accessible. Read more Video, Audio

11:05 AM.In the touching new documentary A Boy Called Piano, playwright and musician Fa'amoana John Luafutu shares his story of coming to New Zealand from Samoa as a child in the 1950s, only to be taken from… Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.From pink and black 1950s suits to bejeweled Vegas jumpsuits, the new Elvis biopic directed by Baz Luhrmann runs the gamut of groundbreaking outfits worn by the King. The costumes were created by… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Boris Johnson's resignation as British Prime Minister earlier this month was "publicly humiliating and a bloody an end as any in the 300 year history of the office", says Sir Anthony Seldon, the UK's… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The latest book by historian James Belich, The World The Plague Made, explores how the Black Death of the 14th century not only halved populations but also helped bring about Europe's rise. Read more Audio