Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:45 AM.Flo Foxworthy started sewing when she was seven years old, with a dream to make costumes for the movies. By the age of 18 she had launched her own business making bikinis and costumes for exotic… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.For his new book, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, has turned his attention to the US's initial response to Covid-19. Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Shaun Bythell has run Wigtown's The Bookshop since 2001. It's the largest second hand bookshop in Scotland with shelves spanning nearly two kilometres and containing over 100,000 books. His trademark… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Covid-19 cases have been spreading through the Everest Base Camp as Nepal deals with a surging outbreak of the virus. Despite this, there has been a record number of climbing permits issued as the… Read more Video, Audio

11:35 AM."Racists Anonymous: the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop being racist." Tainui Tukiwaho is the director of Racists Anonymous, a new show at Auckland's Te Pou Theatre, Aotearoa's… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Danny Elfman is best known for writing the theme tune for The Simpsons, but as a film composer he's had a stellar career - four Oscar nominations and collaborations with directors Tim Burton, Sam… Read more Video, Audio

10:05 AM.Before coming to public attention as a peanut butter baron Pic Picot had already lived a full and picaresque life. By the time he was 21, he had earned enough from making leather goods to pay for his… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.For his new book Around the World in 80 Plants, Jonathan Drori traversed the globe, aiming to reveal the science of plants by showing how their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history… Read more Audio

8:33 AM.Christina Sweeney-Baird's debut novel The End of Men is centred around a global virus to which women are immune and which kills 90 percent of the world's men. It all seems very timely, but was… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Documentary filmmaker Peter Young discusses his biggest project to date - the battle to save Aotearoa's native species from an army of predators. Every year, introduced predators devour the eggs and… Read more Video, Audio

11:32 AM.Kiwi-Scottish starman Dr Stephen Curran returns by popular demand to unpack cosmic goings ons. This week: how all the iron in your blood came from a massive star which lived and died before the Sun… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Jane Mander is best known for her 1920 novel The Story of a New Zealand River, widely thought to be the underlying narrative for Jane Campion's film The Piano. The daughter of an MP, sawmiller and… Read more Audio

10:43 AM.Kiwi Mark Chapman is a teacher at the International School of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. He is in his ninth lockdown and separated from his wife and children who are in Aotearoa. The weather is… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.In her new book, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends, New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth exposes threat posed by an international market in cyberweapons For decades the US… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.In the last 20 years, nearly 500,000 Americans have died from an opioid overdose making them the leading cause of accidental death in the country. Patrick Radden Keefe tells the story of how the… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Scots go to the polls for the Scottish Parliament election on May 6 and the stakes are high as the Scottish National Party aims to control the devolved parliament and make another push for… Read more Video, Audio

8:14 AM.All across India, a trail of death and misery is devastating the country and pushing the overburdened healthcare system towards collapse. Oxygen and medicine are in short supply as the nation deals… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Poet and writer Kate Camp returns to discuss another classic work of literature. This week, Sydney Bridge Upside Down. Written by David Ballantyne and published in 1968, it's been described as the… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.All travel between New Zealand and Western Australia has been paused after a three-day lockdown was announced in Perth and the Peel region. Kim asked epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker about the… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Bill Edgar is the son of one of Australia's most notorious gangsters, a former street kid, prisoner, sexual abuse survivor and inventor. Now the Queensland private investigator has found fame for… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Australian human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson has been described as the go-to barrister for London's rich and famous. Standing by her clients Julian Assange and Amber Heard in the full glare of… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.New Zealand film director Toa Fraser, 46, recently revealed on Twitter that he has Young Onset Parkinson's Disease. "People used to say I look cool. These days, people ask me why I look so serious… Read more Video, Audio