All episodes
Saturday, 14 September 2019
- 8:12 Vaping - Are safety concerns overblown?
- 8:50 Nika Rua - The pardoning of Rua Kenana
- 9:08 Deborah Small - Racism and the "War on Drugs"
- 9:43 Lila Madden - Year 13 Eureka! Award winner
- 10:07 Alison Bell - The Letdown
- 10:33 Crime writer Val McDermid - How the Dead Speak
- 11:08 Rebecca Priestley - Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica
- 11:40 Listener Feedback for 14 September 2019
- 11:40 Hadley Wickham - open source data wrangler
Saturday, 7 September 2019
- 8:10 Scott Higham - Big Pharma's role in the US opioid crisis
- 8:35 Diana Sarfati - The future of cancer in New Zealand
- 9:06 Celebrity profile writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- 9:35 David Schurmann - A Brazilian lens on New Zealand
- 10:05 How statistics can help us separate fact from fiction
- 11:05 Gina Martin - Anti-voyeurism activist
- 11:35 Filmmaker Sima Urale
- 11:59 Listener feedback for Saturday 7 September 2019
Saturday, 31 August 2019
- 8:10 Ruth Mottram - The melting of Greenland's ice sheet
- 8:30 Salman Rushdie - Reimagining Don Quixote
- 9:06 Inventor Keith Alexander - Springfree tramps to flying machines
- 10:05 Tangaroa Walker - Dairy Farmer 4 Life
- 10:30 Hany Farid - Are Deep Fakes a real problem?
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Craig Potton
- 11:59 Listener feedback for Saturday 31 August 2019
Saturday, 24 August 2019
- 8:11 Decolonising the justice system
- 9:07 The hidden casualties of Duterte's war on drugs
- 9:30 Evolutionary ecologist who found god via Richard Dawkins
- 10:07 New poet laureate David Eggleton
- 10:12 Kevin Briggs - Preventing suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge
- 10:40 Julie Nolan - Bringing Janet Frame to the stage
- 11:06 Pablo Garcia Borboroglu - Protecting penguins
- 11:40 Kate's Klassics: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
- 11:55 Listener feedback for Saturday 24 August 2019
Saturday, 17 August 2019
- 8:13 A cure for Ebola? Virologist Chris Smith
- 8:27 A Woman Like Her
- 9:08 Janine Barchas: Jane Austen for the people
- 9:46 Fighting the billion dollar problem posed by ransomware
- 10:07 Allbirds founder Tim Brown on sustainability and shoes
- 10:30 The Art of Eavesdropping
- 11:05 Playing favourites with Garage Project's Pete Gillespie
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 17 August 2019
Saturday, 10 August 2019
- 8:10 David Carroll - Cambridge Analytica and ‘The Great Hack’
- 9:10 Eve Ensler: 'Writing an apology to myself from my abusive father has freed me'
- 9:35 Professor Robert Wade - Trump and the rise of the "Strongman"
- 10:05 David Suchet - Hercule Poirot, and more
- 10:30 Michel Tuffery - Elevating the unsung hero of Cook's Endeavour
- 11:05 Joe Dolce: the poet behind Shaddap You Face
- 11:40 Tara Murray - Protecting our native grasshoppers
- 11:59 Listener feedback for Saturday Morning for 10 August 2019
Saturday, 3 August 2019
- 8:10 Breakthrough cancer treatment coming to New Zealand
- 9:07 Richard Whitman - Can the union survive Boris Johnson?
- 9:30 Felicity Gerry - Fearless QC creates legal history
- 10:25 Midge Ure - Riding high on new wave music for almost 40 years
- 11:06 DeRay Mckesson - Race and Justice in a Divided America
- 11:40 Doug Wilson - Walking your way to better aging
Saturday, 27 July 2019
- 8:15 Peeni Henare - Government reversal on stoush at Ihumatao
- 8:25 Scott Donaldson - the first person to kayak the Tasman solo
- 9:04 Jamie Morton: My Dad Wrote a Porno
- 9:30 Dr Florian Graichen - Tackling plastic waste
- 10:04 Elspeth Sandys - Author of A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley
- 10:40 Dave Veart on Ihumātao: 'the legislation is failing us'
- 11:04 Edo de Waart: World authority on Beethoven brings all nine of his symphonies to NZ audiences
- 11:40 Dani Valent - A food critic's take on the Masterchef Australia brouhaha
Saturday, 20 July 2019
- 8:15 Katie Simpson - Can Justin Trudeau win the Canadian election?
- 8:40 Anne-Marie Connor - Ebola's deadly return
- 8:50 Daniel Ryntjes - Iran seizes two UK tankers
- 9:05 Victor Rodger and Robbie Magasiva - Club Paradiso revival
- 9:35 Professor Michelle Glass on cannabis and synthetic cannabinoids
- 10:05 Susan Buckland - The colourful life of Sir Ernest Hyam Davis
- 10:35 Peter Falkenberg - 40 years of the Christchurch Free Theatre
- 11:05 Justin Pemberton - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- 11:40 Joseph Michael - When art and science collide
- 11:55 Listener feedback
Saturday, 13 July 2019
- 8:10 Lisa Taddeo on Three Women, exploring female desire and sex
- 9:05 Tom Jennings on his documentary of archival footage of the Apollo moon missions
- 9:35 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eric Cornell who discovered new state of matter
- 10:04 Marianne Schultz
- 10:40 Space Oddity at 50: the 'novelty song' that became a cultural touchstone
- 11:04 Helen Russell - Author uncovers the secrets of happiness
- 11:40 Julia Deans - Famous Cantabrian expats stage Like Water
Saturday, 6 July 2019
- 8:11 Dr Merlyn Hay - Vet who discovered M. Bovis
- 8:35 Prof. Howard Gendelman - Eliminating HIV from the DNA of mice
- 9:08 Simon Schama - Historian and author's love affair with words
- 9:45 Arthur Tompkins - Art Crime
- 10:08 Dr Karen Grylls - long-time advocate for choral music
- 10:35 Brett Doar - contraptionist, kinetic sculptor, and engineer
- 11:05 John Flux - Lifelong ecologist
- 11:45 Lisa McMillan - Sharing food in the nude
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 6 July 2019
Saturday, 29 June 2019
- 8:12 Dr Paul Wood: 'Prison was the most useful thing I could have experienced'
- 9:04 Alan Elliott - Resurrecting the Amazing Grace
- 9:40 Finn McCahon-Jones - Colin McCahon's curatorial flair
- 10:04 Shaun Barnett and Chris Maclean - NZ's first tramping club
- 10:45 Ines Moran - Cuckoo vs Rifleman
- 11:04 Sother Teague - New York mixologist and anti-Trump campaigner
- 11:35 Gunter Herbig - the music of Mansfield's favourite mystic
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 29 June 2019
Saturday, 22 June 2019
- 8:12 Arundhati Roy on writing and politics
- 9:06 Leaving Country Life to return to the country life
- 10:05 Swedish photographer wins plaudits for Migrant Caravan
- 10:05 Playing Favourites with Julian Arahanga
- 11:05 Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
- 11:40 Kate's Klassics: James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 22 June 2019
Saturday, 15 June 2019
- 8:09 Louis Theroux: the TV version of me is semi-fictional
- 8:40 Nisa – the Wellington underwear brand employing former refugees
- 9:05 Toby Faber - The untold story of Faber & Faber publishing
- 9:45 Ronnie van Hout - Artist behind new Auckland public art
- 10:05 The pact of forgetting the years of Franco's dictatorship
- 10:35 Enda Walsh - stage adaptation of hit movie Once
- 11:05 Natalie Wynn (aka ContraPoints) - the 'Oscar Wilde of YouTube'
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 15 June 2019
Saturday, 8 June 2019
- 8:10 Anna Fifield: 'Don't underestimate Kim Jong Un'
- 9:06 Sarah Gaitanos: Examining the life of Shirley Smith
- 9:40 Dr Jo James - Virtual Pregnancy
- 10:09 Amy Adrion: Director of Half the Picture
- 10:45 Ataahua Papa - Ko Matariki te kairuuri o Te Mangooroa
- 11:07 Paula Morris - À Menton
- 11:25 Dr Graeme Downs and Victoria Kelly
Saturday, 1 June 2019
- 8:12 Martin Wylie - Should some make less than the minimum wage?
- 8:35 Wendy Parkins - Every morning, so far, I'm alive
- 9:05 John Walker - Assholes: A Theory
- 9:35 Qiane Matata-Sipu - Kickass indigenous wahine
- 10:10 Sean Mallon - Tatau: A History of Samoan Tattooing
- 11:06 How far should one care for a triggered audience?
- 11:35 Nga Hine Pukorero - Brave New Voices
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 1 June 2019
Saturday, 25 May 2019
- 8:00 Can hallucinogenic drugs treat depression?
- 8:20 Ruby Porter - Award-winning debut novel Attraction
- 9:04 Anne Perkins - Adios Theresa May
- 9:20 Vincent O'Malley - The New Zealand Wars/ Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa
- 10:04 Dr Hilary Chung - Living with metastatic breast cancer
- 10:45 Guyon Espiner investigates Pharmac
- 11:04 Andrew McConnell - The everyday life of the people of GAZA
- 11:45 Hannah Burgoyne - Heritage Tour of the Former 1YA Building
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 25 May
Saturday, 18 May 2019
- 8:15 Josh Gerstein - Australia's deal to resettle terrorists
- 8:45 Glynn Owens, the retired professor who's one of NZ's best pole dancers
- 9:04 Murray Cammick and Chris Bourke - Rip It Up meets digital age
- 10:04 Carla Guelfenbein - In the Distance with You
- 10:30 Ken Ramirez - Understanding Dogs and other animals
- 11:04 Douglas Coupland: I miss my pre-internet brain
- 11:40 Annabel Crabb - Australia Decides 2019
Saturday, 11 May 2019
- 8:09 Caster Semenya and the myth of testosterone
- 9:04 American musician Jeff Tweedy on writing, anxiety and addiction
- 9:40 Bryony James - Do crunchy foods make you fuller?
- 10:04 Dustin Lance Black - Mama's Boy
- 11:04 Cliff Curtis - How Merata Mita decolonised the screen
- 11:40 Alison Stringer - Gathering mushrooms in May
- 11:55 Listener feedback
Saturday, 4 May 2019
- 8:14 Donna Farhi - Yoga's culture of abuse
- 9:06 Anne Michaels - Canadian poet and author of Fugitive Pieces
- 9:35 Dr Helen Jacobi - Violence in the house of God
- 10:05 Mary Kisler - Finding Frances Hodgkins
- 10:38 Dr Rochelle Constantine - Whale poo divulges its secrets
- 11:06 Shayne Carter on his memoir Dead People I Have Known
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 4 May 2019
Saturday, 27 April 2019
- 8:11 Jonathan Freedland: 'The man without shame has tremendous power'
- 9:05 Artemis Cooper - Doyenne of the historical biography
- 9:35 Paul Hunt - NZ's new Human Rights Commissioner
- 10:05 Dr Lisa Sanders - Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
- 11:04 Lost in Vagueness: Extravagance and opulence at Glastonbury
- 11:35 Dr Dean Peterson - Te Taiao Nature exhibition to open
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 27 April 2019
Saturday, 20 April 2019
- 8:12 Monica Hingston - Lesbian ex-nun who stood up to George Pell
- 8:40 Oobah Butler: the English writer who passed his garden shed off as a top-rated restaurant
- 9:04 Porochista Khakpour - Sick
- 9:35 Dot Kettle - Peony power
- 10:04 Christina Thompson - The Puzzle of Polynesia
- 10:40 John Reynolds - the lost hours of Colin McCahon
- 11:04 Liz Calder: Star ex-pat publisher is honoured in Christchurch
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 20 April 2019
Saturday, 13 April 2019
- 8:15 Soothing international disputes with science diplomacy
- 9:04 Go, Went, Gone - the asylum seeker experience in Germany
- 9:30 Understanding Neanderthals and our relationship to them
- 10:04 Maria Tumarkin - How are we to live after trauma?
- 10:40 Max Olijnyk: why I love skateboarding
- 11:04 Gretchen Albrecht, Luke Smythe: Between gesture and geometry
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 13 April 2019
Saturday, 6 April 2019
- 8:12 Colin Keating - 25th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide
- 8:40 Margaret Long - Frensham Gardens
- 9:04 Norah Jones - Balladeer releases new album Begin Again
- 9:25 Sarah Perry on leaving the church to become a writer
- 10:04 Reuben Friend and Ioana Gordon-Smith - A camera on the shore
- 10:40 Dr Natalie Schilling - Solving crimes through language
- 11:05 Luke Wright - Poet, performer, publisher, and broadcaster
- 11:40 Kate Camp - Kate's Klassics: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- 11:59 Listener feedback for Saturday Morning 6 April 2019
Saturday, 30 March 2019
- 8:12 Alex Thomson - Mozambique after cyclone Idai
- 8:30 Ian McEwan: 'I’m a total news junkie, even as it gives me enormous pain'
- 9:06 Karley Sciortino: I'm pretty slutty
- 9:25 Neil Finn's tour of NZ town halls documented in new book
- 10:04 David Chariandy - I've been meaning to tell you
- 10:35 Renee Liang and Michele Powles - When we remember to breathe
- 11:04 Caroline Easther - ex-Chills Drummer spins her favourite tunes
