Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:40 AM.Australian author and screenwriter Craig Silvey's second novel Jasper Jones, released in 2009 sold more than 600,000 copies and was adapted for screen and stage. 11 years on he's just released a new… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Ariana Tikao is a composer and performer of Kāi Tahu descent whose waiata bring to life ancestral stories. She is a passionate exponent of the indigenous musical instruments of Aotearoa and is… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Rachel Taulelei (Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Rarua, Ngāti Koata) is the CEO of Kono, a family-owned Maori food and beverage producer and exporter. A seafood aficionado, her business Yellow Brick… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Former Air New Zealand cabin attendant Taaniko Nordstrom, and her sister-in-law Vienna Nordstrom, are the creative duo behind Soldiers Rd Portraits, a photography-based business they set up together… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:40 AM.C.T. (Manny) Jules is the Chief Commissioner of the First Nations Tax Commission based in Kamloops, British Columbia. He is a leading figure in getting Canada's First Nations people independence over… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.It's been another big news week in the U.S. Black Lives Matter protests reignited after a decision not to charge police officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville in March… Read more Audio

5:40 PM.Hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders joined together to speak, sing and celebrate te reo at midday on Monday. This "Maori Language Moment", part of Te Wiki o te reo Maori, was the single largest… Read more Audio

4:31 PM.New Zealand legal history was made earlier this month when the Supreme Court allowed former Christchurch Civic Creche worker Peter Ellis's appeal against charges of sexual offending to continue… Read more Audio

11:46 AM.Never has humanity given so much thought to the handles, the buttons, and the benchtops that surround us. The realities of life under the pandemic mean that every encounter with a surface becomes an… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Conservationist and adventurer Sacha Dench didn't let the small matter of a fear of flying stop her taking to the sky in a motorised paraglider in pursuit of migrating swans. Her first mission in 2016… Read more Video, Audio

10:07 AM.When New Zealand rugby league legend Olsen Filipaina- aka "The Big O" or "The Galloping Garbo" on account of his day job- plied his trade in Australia's National Rugby League he was a trailblazer as a… Read more Video, Audio

9:37 AM.The Black Lives Matter protests continue to influence the spectacle and the business of pro sports. With many of the world's top leagues now back in action, including the NBA, football and the NFL… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.How tough would it be to defend a nationalist politician whose views would see you and your family deported from the country they now call home? Australian criminal lawyer Andrew Boe arrived in… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.How does the design of our buildings and office layouts need to change to minimise the spread of COVID-19? That's one of the questions exercising Joe Allen, an assistant professor of exposure… Read more Audio

5:09 PM.Iconic New Zealand monthly current affairs magazine North & South is rising from the ashes, and at the helm will be new editor Rachel Morris. German journalists Konstantin Richter and Verena… Read more Audio

4:35 PM.Dr Chris Smith returns to discuss the latest Covid-19 science and research news. This week trials of one of the front-running vaccines (AZD1222 aka the "Oxford vaccine") made by AstraZeneca, have been… Read more Audio

2:46 PM.Actor, model, producer, activist and former fitness guru Jane Fonda reflects on her relationship with climate change activism in a new book:What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to Action. Fonda… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Presented by Dame Professor Anne Salmond, TV series Artefact focuses on objects and taonga at the heart of historical dramas. These treasures range from physical items to places or living things. And… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Filmmaker and journalist Barbara Sumner was adopted in 1960 and at the age of 23, embarked on a search to find her birth mother. The system made this all but impossible, and Sumner now campaigns for… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Biologist and mycologist Merlin Sheldrake explores the strange and wonderful world of fungi in his book Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. It can be… Read more Video, Audio

9:35 AM.Podcaster Phoebe Judge is the host and co-creator of popular shows Criminal and This Is Love, and the owner of one of the more distinctive voices in audio. Her new lockdown-inspired series Phoebe… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Art historian and curator Mary Kisler discusses the opening of a touring Auckland Art Gallery exhibition at the Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi in Wellington. The 19 Gallery's part of the Frances… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery