Saturday Morning Podcast Options

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

9:05 AM.Morris Pearl is chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of hundreds of high-net-worth people who want millionaires, billionaires, and corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. Patriotic… Read more Audio

8:45 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. This week, the latest on India's… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Rachel Morris makes actual museums but she says that, in a way, we are all museum-makers as we try to make sense of the chaos of the past. Unpacking boxes of old family stuff from under her bed… Read more Audio

5:12 PM.Patricia Lockwood's 2017 memoir Priestdaddy was named one of the 10 best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review. She's just released her debut novel No One Is Talking About This, which… Read more Audio

1:11 PM.Cal Flyn's latest book, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape tells the story of a dozen abandoned places around the world, from Chernobyl to the volcanic Caribbean, and looks… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:38 AM.After many years running a veterinary clinic in Cambodia, Trish Johansen is on a mission to eradicate rabies. More than 100 years after a rabies vaccine was developed, people are still dying horrible… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:09 AM.Terry Wilson is a pioneer in using global positioning systems (GPS) to understand the loss of Antarctic ice. She says Antarctica's bedrock is rising as the ice melts and this will have implications… Read more Audio

10:37 AM.Ageing well is not just about longevity, according to medical academic Doug Wilson. It is the art of living well, making the most of the time we have, and finding ways to enhance our happiness and… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Attitudes to rape and women's rights in the Bahamas make it an ideal hunting ground for an alleged sexual predator, Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard, according to outspoken Bahamian radio host… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.The psychedelic drug psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, is as good at reducing symptoms of depression as conventional treatment, a small, early-stage trial has suggested. The study, run by Imperial… Read more Audio