Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:35 AM.Genetically engineered mosquitoes could be the key to winning the war against malaria, a disease that affects more than 200 million people every year and kills more than 400,000 - many of whom are… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.As of Friday afternoon, more than 70 percent of New Zealanders aged 12 or over had received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, or are booked in to receive it. But as witnessed in Israel, where… Read more Audio

5:06 PM.Australian actor Bryan Brown is a familiar face on our screens. Brown is adding another feather to his cap by trying his hand at crime writing. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Award-winning Kiwi cartoonist Toby Morris tells Kim Hill working on his latest book Dad Man Walking was "a bit of a reprieve" from his regular gig illustrating Covid-19 explainers for the World Health… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:40 AM.In her new short documentary Fifty Percent, Lillian Hanly grapples with an agonising decision: should she get tested for Huntington's disease? Her grandfather, New Zealand artist and printmaker Pat… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Mycelium, the root system of fungi, has increasingly started to be used as an alternative to plastic, but its uses are also extending into architecture and design as a living, construction material. … Read more Audio, Gallery

8:36 AM.Covid-19 has seen Sydney investigative journalist and broadcaster Dr Norman Swan thrust into a role as arguably Australia's most well-known doctor and a trusted voice in the long pandemic. He joins us… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.As many as 170 Afghan people and 13 American troops are being reported as having been killed in a blast outside Kabul's international airport on Thursday night. Dr Srinjoy Bose is a Senior Lecturer in… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Protein scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins RNZ's Saturday Morning to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week he's discussing the future of the news and how journalism will… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Following on from her critically acclaimed 2018 debut Tinderbox, Wellington-based author Megan Dunn has returned with new book Things I Learned At Art School. Billed as part-memoir and part essay… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.New The Spinoff coeditors Alex Casey and Madeleine Chapman chat with Colin peacock and share some favourite songs. Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Jim Schuster works with Heritage New Zealand as a marae restorer around New Zealand and the world, and in the latter category there's one particularly close to his heart. Meeting house Hinemihi has… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Felix Marquardt is a French author, former PR consultant and senior advisor to world leaders and CEOs, some he admits shady. His first book The New Nomads boldly proposes the future of humanity and… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Concerns are high for the women of Afghanistan following the Taliban's swift takeover of the Middle Eastern country.  Professor Vrinda Narain says women were subjected to persistent human rights… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Our regular commentator, Cambridge University consultant clinical virologist Dr Chris Smith joins us with the latest Covid-19 science, and to answer your questions. With New Zealand suddenly placed… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 14 August 2021. Audio

11:40 AM.Passionate about space education, Haritina Mogoșanu is interested in how our experience in biosecurity can inform space exploration and protect life. Read more Audio

11:07 AM.The Backlisted literary podcast is the brainchild of John Mitchinson and his co-host Andy Miller. The pair invite guests - usually writers - for a conversation about a book they love and that they… Read more Audio

10:36 AM.A comic artist himself, Sam Orchard is the newly appointed curator for the New Zealand Cartoon and Comics Archive at the National Library. Read more Audio, Gallery

10:06 AM.For the past nine years Helen Bint has lived off-the-grid in a truly remote, spectacular location - a historic stone cottage at the foot of a 200-metre high rocky outcrop on the Chatham Islands. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:42 AM.When Anapela Polata'ivao was growing up she wanted to be a nurse because she felt the need to help people. Then she found drama at Sunday School. Now an actor, writer and director with numerous awards… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Arthur Taylor is one of the country's most notorious criminals and has a new memoir. In an interview with Kim Hill, he's asked whether he's truly repentant for his past.  Read more Audio

8:36 AM.James Courage is a major mid-century New Zealand literary figure but he has been largely overlooked compared to contemporaries such as Frank Sargeson and Charles Brasch. Chris Brickell wants to set… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Vanessa Andreotti is a working alongside a collection of Amazonian tribes as indigenous land rights are looking likely to be removed in an unprecedented move by Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. Read more Audio