Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:40 AM."He korora, he tohu oranga: the little penguin is the sign of life". This whakatauki, that the success of korora populations indicates the health of the coastal marine environment, underpins John… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:06 AM.Poet Johanna Emeney says that Felt, her new collection of poems, explores teaching, animals and how emotions and "the things that have hit me hard over the past decade" are felt in the body. Read more Audio

10:43 AM.Georgia Rippin (Tainui, Ngati Mahuta) is a New Zealand writer and television producer based in New York where she works on programmes for Netflix and Showtime. Her early productions, including… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.The hunt for a wine collection believed to have been hidden in a remote Georgian winery during the Second World War is at the centre of a new book, Stalin's Wine Cellar. First owned by Nicholas II… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Constant surveillance, cultural suppression and 're-education' are a day-to-day reality for the approximately 12 million Muslim minority Uighur people who live in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Neuroscientist Lisa Genova explores how memories are made and retrieved in her new book Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting. Read more Audio

8:52 AM.Cambridge University consultant clinical virologist Dr Chris Smith discusses further news on the suspected link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots; new variants; and Russia's COVID-19… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.On the 1st of February Myanmar's military carried out a coup, seizing control of the country, undoing a democratic election in which Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party won by… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.As you've heard Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinbugh has died at nearly 100 years of age. So if you think he'd been around forever, he pretty much had! Victoria Arbiter who happens to be the daughter… Read more Audio

4:45 PM.Filmmaker Florian Habicht joins Kim for a chat and to play his favourite music on the day of the world premiere of his new documentary, James & Isey. Florian Habicht has worked with musicians Jarvis… Read more Video, Audio

11:40 AM.Scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week he's considering controversial Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, author of… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.New York Times technology columnist and host of the podcast Rabbit Hole, Kevin Roose is the author of Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation, in which he lays out a vision for how… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.This week marks the 10th anniversary of the late Sir Paul Callaghan's legendary 'vision' speech at the McGuinness Institute event where he presented the idea of New Zealand becoming a place where… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.In her book Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film Helen O'Hara explores the role of women - both in front of the camera and behind it - since the birth of Hollywood. The dawn of… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Javier Blas is chief energy correspondent at Bloomberg News and coauthor of The World For Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources. The book aims to lift the lid on the… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Lingering symptoms such as crippling fatigue, "brain fog", breathlessness, heart palpitations, chest pain and aching muscles or joints are a grim reality for a subset of people infected with Covid-19… Read more Audio

6:10 PM.Dr Tom Doyle, who is a priest, canon lawyer and addictions therapist, this week gave evidence to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry faith-based redress hearing in Auckland, where he blamed… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.In the last year epidemiologist Michael Baker has become a household name and face. As a member of the Ministry of Health's Covid-19 technical advisory group he strongly advocated for an elimination… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:30 AM.Judy Melinek is a forensic pathologist at Wellington Hospital. Her training in forensics at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner is the subject of the memoir Working Stiff: Two Years… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Caolan Robertson is a writer, filmmaker and former PR person for the alt-right. Between 2017 and 2019 he was a correspondent for Rebel Media, a director and producer for Alex Jones, Lauren Southern… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.A few weeks ago, Kim spoke to Professor Avi Loeb, the former chair of astrophysics at Harvard University, who believes an object that passed through our solar system had extraterrestrial origins. Avi… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.George Saunders won the Booker Prize for his 2017 novel Lincoln in the Bardo. For the last 20 years, he has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his students at Syracuse University. He… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Mark Carney is the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Finance Adviser for COP26. He was Governor of the Bank of England until last year, and prior to… Read more Audio