All episodes
Saturday, 4 April 2020
- 8:00 Kim's intro for Saturday 4 April 2020
- 8:15 India's 1.3 billion person lockdown
- 8:35 Dr Michael Mosley: the secrets of a good night's sleep
- 9:15 Chris Smith: coronavirus science latest
- 9:50 Greg Woods: marble racing commentator
- 10:12 Jane Patterson: government messaging in the Covid crisis
- 10:40 Dr Diana and Mark Kopua: Maori mental health
- 11:10 Mary Kisler: art and museums online
- 11:30 Steph Miller: new short film Rat Man
- 11:45 Kate Camp: literature for the lockdown
Saturday, 28 March 2020
- 8:07 Anu Partanen: why is Finland so happy?
- 8:40 Coronavirus causing unheard of reduction in air pollution
- 9:08 Jaimee Perrett: Nelson teacher's enforced Ghana stay
- 9:30 Dr Chris Smith: lockdown science
- 10:08 Ed Caesar: hunting huge diamonds
- 10:35 Harlan Coben: novelist's big on Netflix
- 11:07 Steve Wratten: plants to please bees
- 11:35 Doug Wilson: the lockdown and the elderly
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 28 March
Saturday, 21 March 2020
- 8:10 Laura Spinney: the search for a vaccine and the 1918 flu
- 8:30 Dr Chris Smith: 'surface anxiety' and COVID-19 treatment trials
- 9:05 Mark Jenkin: director of Bait
- 9:30 Robert Macfarlane: the #CoReadingVirus global reading group
- 10:05 Arielle Kilker: Cheer co-director's feelgood hit
- 10:35 James Hadfield: NZ phylogeneticist tracking COVID-19's spread
- 11:05 Steven Taylor: the psychology of pandemics
- 11:35 Michele Bannister: interplanetary passions
Saturday, 14 March 2020
- 8:10 Chris Smith - COVID-19 pandemic update
- 8:40 Life after COVID 19 - how the pandemic could shape the future
- 9:05 One year since March 15: Dr Maysoon Salama
- 9:40 Ancient pollen as a window into the past
- 10:05 Author Hilary Mantel completes her Wolf Hall trilogy
- 11:05 Pádraig Ó Tuama: The Poetry & Politics of Kindness
- 11:40 Kate's Klassics - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday 14 March
Saturday, 7 March 2020
- 8:10 Damian Barr: Maggie & Me author on his debut novel
- 8:45 Serhii Plokhy - Chernobyl: History of A Tragedy
- 9:05 Laurie Anderson
- 9:35 Bret McKenzie
- 10:05 Director and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan
- 10:35 Black Ties co-director Rachael Maza
- 11:05 Cormac Begley - Concertina player
- 11:15 Rajorshi Chakraborti - Shakti
- 11:35 Carl Bland - Mr Red Light
Saturday, 29 February 2020
- 8:10 Dr Ashley Bloomfield on New Zealand's first case of COVID-19
- 8:30 David Quammen: How animal diseases spread to humans
- 9:07 Anne Enright: on her latest novel "Actress"
- 9:49 Josh Bailey: electric music maker
- 10:07 Covid-19: Q and A with Virologist Chris Smith
- 10:48 Songwriter Ria Hall "upholding the mana of Aotearoa reggae"
- 11:08 Mosque shooting widower Farid Ahmed shares "Husna's story"
- 11:43 Peter Sellars: genre-defying director stages Canadian opera
Saturday, 22 February 2020
- 8:10 Can Michael Bloomberg's billions buy the Democratic nomination?
- 8:30 Moral philosopher Professor Peter Singer vs cancel culture
- 9:05 Katherine Eban: Fraud in the generic drug industry
- 9:40 NZer of the Year Jennifer Ward-Lealand: 'The stage is my place that I let te reo be heard'
- 10:05 Namwali Serpell: Author of "The Old Drift"
- 10:35 Surgeon Sanduk Ruit on helping 130,000 people see again
- 11:05 Guy Garvey: lead singer of UK band elbow
- 11:40 Stanley Makuwe: Sir Garfield Todd's African legacy
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 22 February 2020
Saturday, 15 February 2020
- 8:10 Prof Raina MacIntyre - Corona virus / Covid-19 update
- 8:35 How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality
- 9:10 Heart surgeon Samer Nashef: The Angina Monologues
- 10:06 Katie Paterson: Future Library
- 10:30 Actor Nathaniel Lees on The Legend of Baron To'a
- 11:05 Playing favourites with The Front Lawn
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 15 February 2020
- 11:55 The Front Lawn plays favourites (podcast version)
Saturday, 8 February 2020
- 8:10 The week in US Politics - Nicholas Fandos
- 8:35 Claudia de Rham: cosmologist considers 'massive gravity'
- 9:05 Francis and Kaiora Tipene on life and the business of death
- 9:45 H G Parry: novelist on The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
- 10:05 Rain Dove - Activist and "gender capitalist" model
- 10:30 Documentary director Tony Sutorius: Helen Kelly -Together
- 11:05 Newtown Festival director Martin Hanley plays favourites
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 8 February 2020
Saturday, 1 February 2020
- 8:10 Virologist Chris Smith: Wuhan coronavirus latest
- 8:35 Kat Arney: Does fidgeting help us focus?
- 9:05 Adam Minter on the global economy of secondhand goods
- 10:05 Gladys Knight: "Empress of Soul" tours NZ
- 10:30 Doug Wilson on ageing and happiness
- 11:05 Trent Dalton: I was put on this earth to write Boy Swallows Universe
- 11:40 Wrangling maggots to reduce food waste
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday 1 February
Saturday, 25 January 2020
- 8:10 The trial of Huawei senior executive Meng Wanzhou
- 8:35 David Shariatmadari: Don't Believe A Word
- 9:06 Coronavirus latest: virologist Chris Smith
- 9:30 Prof Robin Dunbar: How many friends do you really need?
- 10:05 Author André Aciman on the sequel to "Call Me By Your Name"
- 10:35 Simon Heath: Outdoor adventures at Mistletoe Bay
- 11:05 Anton Thomas: Hand drawn map maker
- 11:45 Kate's Klassics: The Heat of The Day by Elizabeth Bowen
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 25 January 2020
Saturday, 21 December 2019
- 8:12 Ian Urbina - Human stories of crime on the high seas
- 9:08 Oliver Gee: Rebuilding Notre Dame
- 9:20 Peter Pomerantsev: 'when information is a weapon, everyone is at war'
- 10:05 Amanda Lund: The Complete Woman's guide Christmas
- 10:20 Josh Whale: putting electric motorbikes onto Rwanda's roads
- 10:40 Eva Orner: exposing abuse at the heart of Bikram yoga
- 11:05 Adelaide bushfires
- 11:17 Tabby Besley: Advocate for LGBTQIA+ students
- 11:38 Sámi on screen - from cultural appropriation to consultation
Saturday, 14 December 2019
- 8:12 Jonathan Freedland on the UK election results
- 8:30 Professor Richard G. Whitman - Brexit and the UK Election
- 8:45 Jessica Hobbs: Award-winning NZ director of The Crown
- 9:05 Sir Peter Snell dies
- 9:10 Barry Magee on Sir Peter Snell
- 9:15 Brittany Kaiser: Ex-Cambridge Analytica employee talks back
- 10:05 Douglas Murray: The groupthink tyranny of woke
- 11:05 Faustin Linyekula: Congolese choreographer and dancer
- 11:30 Peter Butler: Building a predator-free sanctuary
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 14 December 2019
Saturday, 7 December 2019
- 8:10 Farah Nayeri-Gauguin's problematic legacy
- 8:30 Irish actor Barry McGovern - Bringing Beckett's "Watt" to NZ
- 9:07 The Pride and Passion of Rugby Coach Warren Gatland
- 9:40 Jane Morris- climber & head of Mountain Guides' Association
- 10:08 Dame Sue Black on life, death and forensics
- 11:07 Caroline Vercoe on Gauguin
- 11:30 Artist Wayne Youle - 20/20 words of wisdom
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 7 December 2019
Saturday, 30 November 2019
- 8:12 London Bridge Incident
- 8:20 Paul Conroy- war photographer's life in the combat zone
- 8:32 Cracking the anxiety code: the extraordinary Claire Weekes
- 9:05 Jonathan Safran Foer - can you eat your way to saving the planet?
- 9:37 Chris McCabe and Vaughan Rapatahana- preserving poetry in endangered languages
- 10:05 Timothy Spall- playing a(nother) famous English artist in Mrs Lowry and Son
- 10:40 Michael Ross- respected discrimination researcher
- 11:05 Naomi Oreskes- can we trust scientists?
- 11:40 Clive James in conversation
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 30 November 2019
Saturday, 23 November 2019
- 8:12 Carl Elliott on the importance on whistle blowing
- 9:05 How Jenji Kohan runs a TV show
- 9:40 Bougainville independence referendum
- 10:05 All-woman West End hit Emilia gets NZ international premiere
- 10:35 Protest: Tautohetohe
- 11:05 Wendy S. Walters writes back
- 11:35 Doug Wilson : the science of ageing
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 23 November 2019
Saturday, 16 November 2019
- 8:12 Why has Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned and fled?
- 8:25 The true story of fake New York heiress Anna Delvey
- 9:05 Astronaut Alexander Gerst
- 10:05 Justin Paton - McCahon Country
- 10:35 Mounted archer Denise Clifton
- 11:05 Journalist Jodi Kantor on breaking the Harvey Weinstein story
- 11:35 Urban designer Skye Duncan
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 16 November 2019
Saturday, 9 November 2019
- 8:10 Could an experimental drug reverse Parkinson's?
- 8:40 British American Tobacco faces child labour test case
- 9:07 Flea: a Red Hot Chili Pepper remembers his wild childhood
- 9:43 Shakti NZ founder Farida Sultana on arranged marriage
- 10:08 Are plastics a threat to human health?
- 10:43 A dark sky reserve for Wairarapa?
- 11:07 Alice Cooper: Godfather of shock rock
- 11:30 Mapping Aotearoa New Zealand
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 9 November 2019
Saturday, 2 November 2019
- 8:10 Predictions of sea level rise severely understated
- 8:35 Granddaughter of Erebus victim on her quest for the truth
- 9:07 Director Hamish Bennett celebrates country values in new film Bellbird
- 9:30 Cave Diver Jill Heinerth
- 10:06 William Dalrymple- the anarchic rise of the East India Company
- 11:05 Tom Forrest - How to grow a Cannabis industry
- 11:40 Celebrating French NZ artist Louise Henderson
- 11:59 Listener feedback for 2 November 2019
Saturday, 26 October 2019
- 8:10 Thomas Novotny - The case for banning cigarette filters
- 8:26 Lady Anne Glenconner: 'I've got a hell of a lot of very good stories'
- 9:05 Treating chronic depression using magnetic stimulation
- 9:40 Deborah Manning - Fighting food waste
- 10:07 The Slap author's foray into historical fiction
- 10:37 Julie Morrison: how dogs can help court witnesses
- 11:08 Taking Fly My Pretties off the stage and into the studio
- 11:45 Kate's Klassics - Valley of The Dolls
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 26 October 2019
Saturday, 19 October 2019
- 8:10 Alastair Campbell: Brexit latest
- 8:35 Eliud Kipchoge and the sub two hour marathon
- 9:05 Billy Connolly: 'The thing is to just carry on'
- 9:30 Dr Matire Harwood - Champion for Maori health
- 10:05 Michael Connelly - Crime writer on his new Harry Bosch book
- 10:30 Poet Michael Pedersen - "the throaty voice of modern Scotland"
- 11:05 Marc Taddei - Fanfare For The Common Man
- 11:45 Documenting the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 19 October 2019
Saturday, 12 October 2019
- 8:12 Turkish forces move in to northern Syria as the US withdraws
- 8:30 A bright future for seaweed farming in NZ?
- 9:05 White Teeth Author Zadie Smith on her short fiction experiment
- 9:40 Kim Gordon: 'I never questioned that I would succeed at something'
- 10:05 Megan Phelps Roper - Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
- 11:05 Mike White - How to Walk a Dog
- 11:35 Doug Wilson - Science vs Ageing
- 11:55 Listener feedback
Saturday, 5 October 2019
- 8:10 Anti-Springbok-tour veterans on the power of HART
- 8:40 Author Melissa Anelli - cyberstalked by New Zealander
- 9:05 Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower author
- 9:35 The Manus Island recording project - sounds of life in detention
- 10:05 Straight male escort John Oh: 'I love my job'
- 10:35 The dark history of New Zealand's leper colony
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Mike Chunn
- 11:59 Listener feedback for Saturday Morning for 5 October 2019
Saturday, 28 September 2019
- 8:12 Donald Trump - on the road to impeachment?
- 8:28 Nir Eyal: why tech addiction is a myth
- 9:07 Robert Macfarlane goes Underland
- 10:06 Geena Davis - Champion for women on screen
- 10:30 Carlos Acosta - Cuban ballet star
- 11:04 Bellingcat founder on the power of citizen journalism
- 11:43 Gregory O'Brien - Always Song in the Water
- 11:55 Listener feedback 28 September 2019
Saturday, 21 September 2019
- 8:10 Richard Easther- what can a new interstellar comet tell us?
- 8:35 Nick Wareham- how to tackle New Zealand's diabetes epidemic
- 9:05 Eighties pop icon tours New Zealand
- 9:40 ‘Ghost Wall’ author’s Brexit parable
- 10:05 Intermittent fasting: could it help you live longer!?
- 11:04 Tim Flannery: 20 years in climate activism a 'colossal failure'
- 11:35 Pete Bossley - A NZ architect’s unique OE
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 21 September 2019
