Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:40 AM.Everyone's had a recent experience of living in a confined space for a prolonged period. Now artist Fiona Amundsen and writer Tim Corballis collaborate on a new exhibition exploring three communities… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Professor Tiffany Field is the Director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami. She studies human touch: why we need it, what it can do for us, and how the importance of touch is… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Oceanographer Peter McComb studies the giant waves of the Southern Ocean and the Ross Sea to make the region safer for fishing vessels, and for the ships of The Royal New Zealand Navy. Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.C.K. Stead chats about his second memoir You Have a Lot to Lose, his relationships with foes and friends including Janet Frame and his infidelity. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.NZer quantum physicist Andrew Wilson was part of a team that became the first in the Southern Hemisphere to create the fifth state of matter, the Bose-Einstein Condensate. He's just been appointed to… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The American singer-songwriter and guitarist Jesca Hoop has had five solo albums, been mentored by Tom Waits and collaborated with the likes of Eels, Placebo, Iron & Wine, Andrew Bird and Elbow. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Lotta Dann - aka Mrs D - overcame her own problems with alcohol to become sober, and an authority on the understanding of addiction and recovery. She's in to talk about her new book The Wine O'Clock… Read more Audio

11:46 AM.Poet and writer Kate Camp returns with another classic work of literature. This week she covers A Journal of the Plague Year, a book by Daniel Defoe released in 1722. It documents the 1665 bubonic… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Smartphones too big for female hands, air-bags designed to protect men's bodies - in many respects it really is a man's world. From design to government policy, from medical research to the workplace… Read more Audio

10:36 AM.Intrepid New Zealander Sophie Ballagh kayaked around the Antarctic peninsula with her Australian partner for 2 weeks, sleeping in a tent as they explored the region's ice-clogged waterways. With a… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:06 AM.Local author Pip Adam's latest book Nothing to See follows intertwining characters navigating sobriety and surveillance capitalism in three snapshots taken 12 years apart. The book follows her… Read more Audio

9:36 AM.Actor Jesse Eisenberg is best known for his portrayal of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 movie The Social Network. In his latest role he's playing Marcel Marceau in a little-known episode… Read more Video, Audio

9:07 AM.American behavioural economist Robert Frank is interested in the power of peer pressure to influence our behaviour. So with the world facing a deadly pandemic and potentially catastrophic climate… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.The call to remove statues and place names that honour racist figures from history is gaining momentum. In Bristol last weekend a statue of slave merchant Edward Colston was thrown into the harbour by… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Could the #BlackLivesMatter protests, spurred by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police, be a catalyst for police reform here in Aotearoa? It's long overdue, according to Khylee Quince… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.Growing up in Tokoroa, Tamatha Paul's eyes were opened to what was going on elsewhere in the world when she started listening to hip-hop. She went on to become her school's Dux, the first person in… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Alexandra Shulman was editor of British Vogue for 25 years before resigning in 2017. It not surprising then that clothes are at the centre of her new memoir. Clothes... And Other Things That Matter… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.“What does decolonisation actually mean? and how does the concept inspire Māori and Pākehā New Zealanders' vision for Aotearoa? We'll ask Mike Ross (Ngati Haua) and Amanda Thomas (Pākehā), both… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Ruth Shaw has lived life on the high seas, worked with sex-workers in Sydney's infamous King's Cross, and spent decades fighting for the environment. She and her husband Lance spent 16 years operating… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Thousands of New Zealanders live in fear that a peanut could kill them or their child. Food allergies result in huge personal and societal costs and they are on the rise, with the rate of milk and… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Cambridge University consultant clinical virologist Dr Chris Smith returns to answer questions about the emerging science around the novel coronavirus pandemic. This week: Sweden's state… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.As the general election draws closer, so too does a referendum on legalising cannabis. The issue has long been debated, often on moral or political grounds rather than scientific. Professor Richie… Read more Audio

4:55 PM.Professor Elizabeth Loftus is an authority on the power and limitations of human memory - but her ideas about the accuracy of our memories and the shortcomings of eyewitness evidence have proved… Read more Audio