Saturday Morning Podcast Options

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

9:30 AM.Consultant clinical virologist (and Naked Scientist) Dr Chris Smith is back with the latest science about what we're discovering about COVID-19 and its spread.  Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Jaimee Perrett is a primary school teacher from Nelson who's been fundraising to rebuild a school in Tetrem, a village about 300 kilometres north west of the Ghanaian capital, Accra.  Read more Audio

8:40 AM.There might be at least one silver lining as the world navigates its way through the coronavirus pandemic. Paul Monks is Professor of Air Pollution at the University of Leicester.  Read more Audio

8:07 AM.Finland was named the happiest country in the world this month...again!: It's the third straight year the country's come out on top of the World Happiness Report. So why are the Finns so damn happy?! 

11:05 AM.Professor Steven Taylor is an Australian academic who's been living in Canada since 1988. On the 1st December 2019, just a few weeks before the full scale of the novel coronavirus outbreak became… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Working from home isn't exactly a new experience for phylogeneticist Dr James Hadfield. Based in Wanaka but employed by Seattle's Bedford Lab, he works on the open source Nextstrain platform: this… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.It's proving to be an unlikely-sounding global hit. The six-part Netflix documentary series Cheer follows the US's best college cheer-leading squad, Navarro College from Texas, as they train for the… Read more Video, Audio

9:30 AM.Under the Twitter hashtag #CoReadingVirus, the nature and travel writer Robert Macfarlane is doing his bit to fight back against the boredom and increasing isolation many are experiencing as health… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Dubbed a 'dreamlike masterpiece' and 'one of the defining British films of the decade' in a 5 star review by film critic Mark Kermode, you won't have seen many movies like Bait before. A story of… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Consultant clinical virologist (and Naked Scientist) Dr Chris Smith returns with the latest on what we're discovering about COVID-19 and how it's spreading. This week, a team of Imperial College… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Like other residents of Paris, journalist and science writer Laura Spinney is holed up in her home in the French capital: she's only able to venture out if she can produce an official certificate… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Poet and writer Kate Camp returns for the latest instalment of Kate's Klassics. This week she reviews Maya Angelou's autographical work from 1969, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, a celebration of the… Read more Video, Audio

11:05 AM.The threat of Covid-19 invites us to think as communities rather than as individuals, says Irish poet and conflict mediator Pádraig Ó Tuama. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Hilary Mantel has won two Man-Booker awards and is tipped for a third with the release of The Mirror & The Light, the final book in her "Wolf Hall" trilogy which follows the final chapters of Thomas… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Professor Rewi Newnham (Ngapuhi) from Victoria University of Wellington studies ancient pollen for what it can tell us about our changing vegetation, and our changing climate. His early experiences… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Dr Maysoon Salama is the manager of the An-Nur Early Childhood Centre in Wigram. Her husband was badly injured, and her son Atta Elayyan killed, in the attack on Christchurch's Al Noor Mosque on 15th… Read more Audio