All episodes
Saturday, 3 August 2013
Eleanor Learmonth on disaster and survival, Stephen Shore on success and autism, Sebastian Hallum Clarke on software and innovation, Playing Favourites with author Eleanor Catton, Leilani Tamu on poetry and diplomacy, Kate De Gold on children’s chapter books.
Full episodeSaturday, 27 July 2013
Jo Appleby on Richard III, Peter Lineham on Destiny Church, Playing Favourites with Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Sister Loyola Galvin and Jess Feast on the film Gardening With Soul, Andrew McMillan on music and tetraplegia.
Full episodeSaturday, 20 July 2013
Daniela Schiller on the brain, memory and fear, Geoff Murphy and Graeme Cowley on Utu Redux, Art with Mary Kisler: California Design, Playing Favourites with Brian Foster and Jack Liebeck of Einstein’s Universe, Paul Jenden on cancer and musicals, Kate De Goldi on “making” books for children.
Full episodeSaturday, 13 July 2013
Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney on the Catholic Church and Wikileaks, Sir Lloyd Geering on the Big Bang and God, Evan Brenton-Rule, winner of the 2013 Eureka! Symposium, Playing Favourites with opera singer Lisa Harper-Brown and digital artist Michael Paget, Philip Hoare on the sea and whales, Kate’s Klassic: The Diary of Anne Frank
Full episodeSaturday, 6 July 2013
Dr Bill Andrews on curing ageing, Pavan Sukhdev on the economy and the environment, blogger Danyl McLauchlan on his first novel, Playing Favourites with The Phoenix Foundation’s Samuel Scott, Jeff Gomez on fantasy and transmedia, and Kate De Goldi on YA novel Mortal Fire..
Full episodeSaturday, 29 June 2013
Robert Wade on inequality, psycho-analyst Stephen Grosz on life examined, scientist Avner Rothschild on solar power, Playing Favourites with author Ted Dawe, writer Sarah Churchwell on the early 1920s and the Great Gatsby, and Raelene Castle on her move from netball to the NRL.
Full episodeSaturday, 22 June 2013
David Sedaris on doctors, diabetes and owls, Klaus Thymann on documenting glaciers, Miko Peled on the path to Middle East peace, Brett Holland on 1871 in Chicago, Playing Favourites with author Julie Thomas, Alison Maclean on making films, Brian Patrick on moths.
Full episodeSaturday, 15 June 2013
Sibel Edmonds on whistle blowing, Terry Speed on genes and statistics, Mary Kisler on Modernisme and Modernism in Spanish architecture, Playing Favourites with authors Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham, Charles Pigden on conspiracy theories, Hadleigh Frost on science oratory.
Full episodeSaturday, 8 June 2013
Dana Karunaratna on eradicating rabies in Bangladesh, Joshua Oppenheimer on re-enacting genocide in Indonesia, Bill McKibben on doing the maths on the environment, Andrea Eimke on textiles in Atiu, Playing Favourites with broadcaster and author Wallace Chapman, Marlene Zuk on paleofantasy, Kate Camp on Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse.
Full episodeSaturday, 1 June 2013
Allan Savory on restoring grasslands from desertification, photographer Andrew Quilty on documenting disasters, Howard Brenton on plays and politics, Playing Favourites with webmaster Richard Hulse, Derek Handley on entrepreneurial heart, Barbara Else on her Fontania books
Full episodeSaturday, 25 May 2013
Dr Huw Lewis-Jones on George Lowe and Everest, Joan Baez on activism and music, Professor Sir David Skegg on science challenges and longevity, Phoebe Hayman on garden gnomes, Playing Favourites with industrial designer Gifford Jackson, Lauren Beukes on serial killers and time travel, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi; three ‘animal’ books.
Full episodeSaturday, 18 May 2013
Jeremy Scahill on America’s dirty war, Masha Gessen on Vladimir Putin and Russia, Louis Chambers on zero carbon and public interest law, Playing Favourites with jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson, Peter Doherty on viruses, David Cameron on teaching English to Asia
Full episodeSaturday, 11 May 2013
William Dalrymple on Afghanistan, Sameer Dossani on Pakistan, Kingi Smiler on Maori agribusiness, Dr Richard Allen on restless leg syndrome, Playing Favourites with dancer and playwright Jan Bolwell, Dr Helena Popovic on brain health, Andrew Digby on kiwi calls
Full episodeSaturday, 4 May 2013
Richard Pitts on nuclear fusion, Joe Kalt on indigenous governance, Neil Grimstone on police and TV, Doug Avery on farming and drought, Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys and Guantanamo School of Medicine, Mike Steel on biomathematics and mountains, Kate Camp’s Klassic: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Full episodeSaturday, 27 April 2013
Mary Wareham on killer robots, Patrick Ness on writing fables, Alison McCulloch on the history of abortion in New Zealand, Playing Favourites with Rachel Dawick and Jon Sanders, Massimiliano Gioni on curating the Venice Biennale, Dan Khan on startup accelerator Lightning Lab.
Full episodeSaturday, 20 April 2013
John Lennox on science and god, Chris Faraone on the week in Boston, Eugene Jarecki on the war on drugs, Playing Favourites with designer and musician Graeme Gash, Ramona Koval on books and readers, Kate de Goldi on three children’s books featuring animals
Full episodeSaturday, 13 April 2013
Jonathan Freedland on Margaret Thatcher, Ric Esther Bienstock on the trade in human organs, Mary Ruefle on poetry and life, Gill Perry on portraits, actresses and celebrity, Playing Favourites with bluesman Watermelon Slim, Anita Desai on India and her novels, Ant Timpson on his film anthology The ABCs of Death.
Full episodeSaturday, 6 April 2013
Andrew Rose on Edward VIII and royal intrigue, Timothy B. Lee on Bitcoin, Simon Lamb on his climate science film Thin Ice, Mary Kisler on the new display of art at Te Papa, Playing Favourites with singer Rick Bryant, Ruth Ozeki on zen and writing, Jeremy Leatinu’u on buildings and video.
Full episodeSaturday, 30 March 2013
Sean Faircloth on the separation of church and state, Frank Warren on posting secrets, Brendan Moyle on the wildlife trade and economy, Playing Favourites with Honduran poet Leonel Alvarado, David Trubridge on ethical and sustainable design.
Full episodeSaturday, 23 March 2013
Jarrod Gilbert on New Zealand gangs, Chris Vein on sensing cities, Catherine Callaghan on her father’s new e-text collection, singer-songwriter Beth Orton, Mark Binelli on Detroit, Kate’s Klassic: The Feminine Mystique
Full episodeSaturday, 16 March 2013
Hörður Torfason on Iceland and democracy, Sheryl Sandberg on women, work and Facebook, Stephen Jones on hats, Kate Cherry on theatre and opera, Rodriguez on his return to the music scene, Scott Tinker on energy transition and futures, Kate De Goldi on three new NZ children’s books.
Full episodeSaturday, 9 March 2013
Seymour Hersh on journalism and the military, Jon Lee Anderson on Hugo Chavez, Lone Frank on her beautiful genome, Playing Favourites with portrait artist Marianne Muggeridge, Gillian Flynn on her Gone Girl bestseller, Arturo Arias on Mayan culture.
Full episodeSaturday, 2 March 2013
Charles Daugherty on Argo, tuatara, conservation and cats, Michael Reynolds on earthships, Mark Pagel on how humans are wired for culture, Emma Griffin on luddites, Playing Favourites with artist Barry Thomas, Crispin Hellion Glover on acting and filmmaking outside the mainstream, Kate De Goldi on six children’s “school” books.
Full episodeSaturday, 23 February 2013
Frederick Kaufman on financialised food, Mary-Kay Wilmers on the London Review of Books, Mary Kisler on the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Playing Favourites with singer, composer and pianist Peter Skellern, Kevin Gosztola on whistleblowing and Bradley Manning, and Callum Christopher on soccer skills in Mt Roskill.
Full episodeSaturday, 16 February 2013
Finlay Macdonald is guest presenter. He talks to Daniel Pink on selling, Hans Becker on aged care, Joanna Aizenberg on bio-inspired engineering, Martin Leung-Wai on future building, Playing Favourites with Paul Ubana Jones, Kathryn Werntz on Mali and the Sahel, and Brian Patrick on butterfly collecting.
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