Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:30 AM.Three hundred kauri saplings grown from seeds from the Waitakere property of Colin McCahon have been made available to the public as part of the Kauri Ora project, supported by local iwi Te Kawerau a… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Journalist Amit Katwala tells the thrilling story of the invention of the flawed lie-detecting machine in his new book Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Writer Janet Frame's time at Seacliff Mental Hospital in the 1940s and 50s has provided inspiration for a new operatic work premiering in Christchurch this month.  Read more Audio

9:10 AM.A groundbreaking "bone bath" technique developed by researchers at the University of Otago now allows researchers to access ancient DNA non-destructively.  Read more Audio, Gallery

9:07 AM.Protesters have rallied outside the US Supreme Court following the bombshell leak earlier this week indicating the court is poised to overturn Roe v Wade. Read more Audio

8:45 AM. Andy Mycock works with a UK group advocating for lowering the voting age and has been following developments in New Zealand closely.  Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Arcane libel laws and the greed of people in power enabled British media personality and sexual offender Jimmy Savile to dodge the legal system for 30-plus years, says journalist Meirion Jones. Read more Video, Audio

5:35 PM.In the Southern Hemisphere, April 30 marks the Pagan festival of Samhain, sometimes known as witches' New Year's Eve. In Wicca, a modern Pagan religion followed by witches, it's the night when the… Read more Audio

11:59 AM.Listener feedback from today's show. Audio

11:06 AM.Jan Kemp burst onto the New Zealand poetry scene in the early 1970s, and became one of the few young women poets of her era to be allowed into male-dominated club of the time. Read more Audio

10:42 AM.When returned to their wetland glory bogs are incredibly effective carbon sinks, that could make up for carbon loss from soils elsewhere. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Scottish band Belle and Sebastian has a new album out this month – A Bit Of Previous. Founder Stuart Murdoch tells Kim Hill how spirituality and the compassion of others have enabled him to keep… Read more Video, Audio

9:39 AM.Rosemary flowers in white wine is one of the Renaissance-era skincare recipes that art historian Erin Griffey is recreating with a team of scientists for the groundbreaking Beautiful Chemistry… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:09 AM.English curator and art dealer James Birch is arguably best known for his innovative ways of championing British art - including exhibiting the works of figurative painter Francis Bacon in Moscow in… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:35 AM.Two landmark studies released this year have pointed the finger at the long-suspected Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) as being a leading cause of multiple sclerosis. Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Self-proclaimed free speech absolutist Elon Musk raised eyebrows around the world this week after it was revealed he is purchasing social media platform Twitter for $US44 billion. The announcement… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.That strange noise early on and lots of love for Jim Lynch. Listener feedback for 23 April 2022. Audio

11:35 AM.Sydney-based New Zealander Dr Matt Baker returns for a chat about some of the latest science news. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.From his house on Otago Harbour, designer and artist Matthew Galloway sees the same view every evening as the sun sets: a plume of smoke rising from the chimney of the Ravensdown Factory. The factory… Read more Audio

10:50 AM.For the last 12 years Bill Browder has been firmly in the sights of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Initially a supporter of Putin, Browder's company Hermitage Capital Management was the largest… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.A proposed 3313-hectare fenced ecosanctuary in Wainuiomata would see critically endangered species such as kakapo, kokako and hihi return to the valley, says its author Jim Lynch. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.American writer Jennifer Egan has described her new novel The Candy House as the sibling to her 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad. Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Often dubbed 'the Art Olympics', the Venice Biennale is all about representation. While the Russian pavilion is closed this year, near the centre of the biennale a large wooden temporary pavilion has… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The 26 million residents of Shanghai have been dealing with strict lockdown conditions since late March due to China's zero-Covid strategy. Read more Audio

11:59 AM.Listener feedback from today's show. Audio