Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:30 AM.Law professor and barrister Philippe Sands has appeared in some high profile international human rights trials involving the likes of Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, and the wars and… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.While the USA might be the current epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak, another country headed by a strongman leader is grappling with its effects too. Brazil has had nearly 30,000 cases of the virus… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Could all this isolation be sparking a flowering of the nation's poetic creativity?! Certainly if the Saturday Morning inbox (sample size: 1) is any guide there's never been such an outpouring of… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Southland contract milker Tangaroa Walker is a popular social media presence with his Facebook page Farm 4 Life, where he posts educational and earthy videos of daily life on a dairy farm. He's also… Read more Video, Audio

11:10 AM.It was a conversation with his wife over ham and cheese toasties that kicked off Tales from the Bunker - Australian writer Trent Dalton's weekly column about the power of the human spirit in these… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.American documentary maker Ken Burns is best known for his sweeping, epic historical documentary series including The Civil War (1990), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Kapa haka teacher Whaitiri Poutawa loves his job and had a "mini freak-out" when the Level-4 lockdown was announced and he couldn't visit schools. To keep contributing, he's taken his funny, energetic… Read more Video, Audio

9:10 AM.Dr Chris Smith, consultant clinical virologist at Cambridge University and one of BBC Radio 5 Live's Naked Scientists, is back with the latest science about COVID-19 and its spread. Among the topics… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.The acclaimed travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron was due to arrive in New Zealand for the Auckland Writers' Festival next month. He's been here before, travelling around the North and South… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.After forging a destructive path through Asia and Europe, COVID-19 has taken hold in the US: the country's transmission numbers have rapidly outstripped previous hotspots like China, Italy and Spain… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.When you tire of crashing Houseparty, of DIY hair styling, of panic-buying flour, and of video-calling every last person you know, how about a good book!? Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Steph Miller is a filmmaker based in Wellington. Her film Rat Man (co-directed and co-produced with Belle Gwilliam) tells the story of Daryl, a reclusive ex convict who becomes the toast of his… Read more Audio

11:10 AM.This week the curator and art historian Mary Kisler has been visiting Monet's garden and the collections of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao without leaving home.  Read more Audio, Gallery

10:40 AM.What would mental health care look like if it took te ao Maori as its foundation? Psychiatrist Dr Diana Kopua and her husband Mark have been on a mission to answer that question. Read more Audio

10:12 AM.RNZ's political editor Jane Patterson has been watching and assessing the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, and how it's navigating the country through the realities and tensions of… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Greg Woods is helping to turn the newly fashionable, socially distant sport of marble racing into a global phenomenon.  Read more Video, Audio

9:15 AM.Dr Chris Smith, consultant clinical virologist at Cambridge University and one of BBC Radio 5 Live's Naked Scientists, is back with the latest science about COVID-19 and its spread.  Read more Audio

8:35 AM.He's explored intermittent fasting, Type 2 diabetes and the state of your insides - now the science journalist, TV presenter and bestselling author Dr Michael Mosley wants to help you sleep better… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.India, the world's second biggest country, has gone into lockdown mode for three weeks over the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Our expert on ageing Doug Wilson's back with his perspective on the COVID-19 lockdown and what this means for the elderly.  Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Steve Wratten is Professor of Ecology with the Bio-Protection Research Centre based at Lincoln University.  Read more Audio

10:35 AM.The blockbusting US novelist Harlan Coben has a new book out: it's called The Boy From The Woods and this week he was meant to be on a book tour to promote it.  Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Journalist Ed Caesar has been globe trotting through Africa and Europe on the trail of the world's largest rough diamonds.  Read more Audio