Saturday Morning Podcast Options

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

11:55 AM.Emails and texts from listeners to the Saturday Morning show. Audio

11:35 AM.Chris Mosier was the first transgender athlete to represent the United States in international competition, after earning a spot on Team USA's sprint duathlon men's team in the 2016 World… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.He's a familiar face on our television screens as one of the judges for popular cooking show MasterChef Australia, but the path to success has been a rocky one for Jock Zonfrillo. Read more Audio

10:30 AM.For most of her professional life Dianne Ludwig worked in the corporate world, but when she retired she decided to start a small hobby business selling vintage clothing online under the moniker… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Dunedin-based quantum physicist Professor David Hutchinson believes New Zealand can lead the world in what is considered to be the next computer revolution, photonics. Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Ben Rhodes was a speechwriter, national security adviser, and right-hand man to US President Barack Obama for eight years. Following his time in the White House, Rhodes wrote an insider account… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.On Friday night artist Brett Graham (Ngati Koroki Kahukura, Tainui) received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award.  Graham is one of New Zealand's most celebrated sculptors and artists… Read more Audio, Gallery

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.  Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Kim reads out listener feedback on the show. Audio

11:40 AM.While the world has its eyes on the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the Alaskan community of Fairbanks has played host to its own long-standing sporting event, the World Eskimo-Indian Olympic Games. Read more Video, Audio