All episodes
Saturday, 18 October 2014
Emma Marris on nature and cuisine, Adura Onashile on Henrietta Lacks, Justin O’Sullivan on cellular organization, Arthur Tompkins on the Tissot painting theft, Playing Favourites with tramping authors Shaun Barnett and Chris Maclean, Damian Skinner on jewellery and makers, David Haywood on solar photovoltaic energy.
Full episodeSaturday, 11 October 2014
Karen Armstrong on violence and religion, Natalie Jeremijenko on mixing art and science and reimagining environmentalism, Mary Kisler on the Light Show exhibition, musicians Dave Dobbyn and Don McGlashan, Kirsty Gunn on Katherine Mansfield and “home”, Martin Edmond on childhood, Hannah August on commemorating troop departures for WW1.
Full episodeSaturday, 4 October 2014
Black cab driver David Ifill, Dr Jayant Pinto on smell and death, Helena Wiśniewska Brow on Polish orphans in NZ, Matt Lambert of The Musket Room, Brooke Fraser on her new album, Stefan Collini on the future of universities, Uther Dean on his play about cuttlefish and soul.
Full episodeSaturday, 27 September 2014
Classics professor Mary Beard on tackling misogyny and online trolls, actor/director Peter Mullan on Scotland, politics and anxiety, opera trio Sol3 Mio, Moana Maniapoto and Paddy Free on NZ and global culture, Tasmanian novelist Richard Flanagan, Gregory O’Brien on Maori poetry anthology Puna Wai Korero.
Full episodeSaturday, 20 September 2014
Mark Cubey is guest host (Kim Hill is unwell). He speaks to Rollo Wenlock on startups in Tel Aviv, Jeffrey E. Stern on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Gayle Souter-Brown on healing landscapes, Rachel Dawick on 19th century boundary riders, Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: Sarajevo Haggadah, Karim Khan on active health and sports medicine, Kate De Gold on two teenage novels.
Full episodeSaturday, 13 September 2014
Margaret Lock on dementia and aging, Robin Scholes on equity crowdfunding, Paul Roberts on the impulse society, Peter Wilson on Duck, Death and the Tulip, Playing Favourites with the Topp Twins, Mohamed Ibrahim on telcos in Somalia, David Haywood on solar energy.
Full episodeSaturday, 6 September 2014
Alan Cooper on exploring human history, teeth, microbiomes, and science research, Robin Robilliard on farming in Golden Bay, Laura O’Connell Rapira on ideas for change, Playing Favourites with playwright Arthur Meek, Lucy Sargisson on utopia, Kate De Goldi on three middle-reader children’s books.
Full episodeSaturday, 30 August 2014
John Lanchester on speaking money, Stephen Nortcliff on soil and sanitation, Art with Mary Kisler: a restored Langot, Playing Favourites with publisher Claire Murdoch, Michael Schmidt on the history of the novel, Amie Lightbourne on playing Ultimate.
Full episodeSaturday, 23 August 2014
Helen Garner on murder and men, Reed Kroloff on buildings and disasters, Classical Music with Davinia Caddy: symphonies, Playing Favourites with ocean explorers Steve and Riley Hathaway, William Kentridge on art, law, and apartheid, David Haywood on wave energy.
Full episodeSaturday, 16 August 2014
David Carlson on oceans and climate, Dave Butler on wildlife sanctuaries, Alex Monro on paper history, Playing Favourites with Rhona Fraser, Nikolas Rose on cities, brains and resilience, Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: Egon Shiele’s Portrait of Wally
Full episodeSaturday, 9 August 2014
Arthur Baysting on legalising marijuana, Gideon Lewis-Kraus on the history of autocorrect, Paul Roy on Filipino slum life, Charlotte Graham on the Edinburgh festivals, Playing Favourites with ethnomusicologist Jyoshna La Trobe, Thom Conroy on Ernst Dieffenbach, Gregory O’Brien on “difficult” poetry.
Full episodeSaturday, 2 August 2014
Tim Keating on the NZDF and WW100, Paul Ramsay on beaver rewilding, Claire Hall on her oral history of the Vietnam War, Playing Favourites with musician and author Kristin Hersh, Hinemoana Baker on boys’ homes and her poems, Kate Camp on the classic WW1 memoir Storm of Steel.
Full episodeSaturday, 26 July 2014
Kitty Green on feminism in Ukraine, Philip Hensher on his new novel, Phil Seddon on endangered species and de-extinction, Playing Favourites with Bob Harvey, Rolf de Heer on his film Charlie’s Country, David Haywood on marine energy.
Full episodeSaturday, 19 July 2014
Alex Gibney on Lance Armstrong’s lies, Richard Bedford on our future New Zealand, Monica Dunford on physics and the Large Hadron Collider, Arthur Tompkins on the theft of Klimt’s portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, Playing Favourites with journalist Charlotte Greenfield, James Lee Burke on his novels, oil and history, Kate De Goldi on children’s books.
Full episodeSaturday, 12 July 2014
Elizabeth Pisani on Indonesia, Rachel Boynton on oil rush in Africa, Mary Kisler on the artists Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino, Playing Favourites with taonga puoro musician Rob Thorne, Ruth Reichl on food and fiction, Vivian Chandra on the Net, tech and women.
Full episodeSaturday, 5 July 2014
Derek Grzelewski on extreme New Zealand, Hazel Chapman on forests in Nigeria, Callum Christopher on taking Roskill to Brazil, Playing Favourites with Ian Jorgensen (Blink), Nalini Singh on her fantasy and romance thrillers, Kate Camp on the classic novel For the Term of His Natural Life.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 June 2014
Kent Greenfield on choice and limits, Jon Waters on aquatic mammal prehistory, Charles Murigande on genocide and conciliation in Rwanda, Playing Favourites with Giovanni Tiso, Lotta Dann on stopping drinking alcohol, Gregory O’Brien on a new poetry anthology, and Rachel O’Neill
Full episodeSaturday, 21 June 2014
Documentary filmmaker Jim Marbrook on mining in New Caledonia, Philip Ball on beauty and truth, jewelers Warwick Freeman and Karl Fritsch, Tony Taylor on Beatlemania, Andy Neill on The Beatles in New Zealand, Joanna Rakoff on answering Salinger’s mail, David Haywood on wind energy.
Full episodeSaturday, 14 June 2014
Simon Coley on fair trade and farmers, Steve Hathaway on underwater filmmaking and our 93% ocean opportunity, Jenifer Roberts on James Edward “Fitz” Fitzgerald, Adam Hyde on sprint publishing, Playing Favourites with filmmaker Taika Waititi, Rose Blackett on gifted children, Shane Cave on corruption and poetry.
Full episodeSaturday, 7 June 2014
Mary Quin on kidnap and innovation, Nomi Prins on bankers, presidents and power, Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: Goya’s Duke of Wellington, Playing Favourites with music writer Carl Wilson, designer Christina Smith on sets and costumes, Kate De Goldi on three children’s books by Kevin Henkes.
Full episodeSaturday, 31 May 2014
Pollyanne Peña on misogyny and #YesAllWomen, Janette Sadik-Khan on New York’s transport revolution, Chris Rainier on photographing endangered cultures, Classical Music with Davinia Caddy: timbre, Playing Favourites with mathematician Clemency Montelle, Lorrie Moore on short story writing, Gregory O’Brien on the poetry of Marty Smith and Cilla McQueen.
Full episodeSaturday, 24 May 2014
Harriet Sergeant on UKIP, and the UK and European elections, Claire Shipman on women and confidence gaps, Alan Cooper on kiwi evolution, Energy with David Haywood: biofuels and toilet flushing, Playing Favourites with Danny Lemon, Sheila Natusch on octogenarian life, Kate De Goldi on three children’s picture books.
Full episodeSaturday, 17 May 2014
Aubrey de Grey on extending longevity, Rachel Buchanan on the decline of newspapers, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay on the India election results, Playing Favourites with author and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, Greg Hopkinson on money and monks, Kate Camp on classic Hemingway novel The Old Man and the Sea.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 May 2014
Ann Marie Gardner on farming and magazines, Megan Miller on eating cricket protein, Rebecca Gowers on plain speech, Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: The Four Horses of San Marco, Playing Favourites with Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow, James McCarthy on choirs and miners, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay on the elections in India.
Full episodeSaturday, 3 May 2014
Scott Stossel on surviving anxiety, Rod Moss on art and aboriginal life, Michael Burge on asylum seekers and free speech, Hollie Fullbrook aka Tiny Ruins, Steve James on basketball and film, Greg O’Brien on poet John Pule
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