All episodes
Saturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 9 February 2013
Guy Standing on basic income and the Precariat, Roald Hoffmann on theoretical chemistry and surviving the Holocaust, Playing Favourites with playwright Victor Rodger, Graeme Simsion on his hit romantic comedy The Rosie Project, Kate Camp with her Klassic - The Red Badge of Courage.
Full episodeSaturday, 2 February 2013
Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the internet, Richard Adams on Washington D.C., Jocelyn Bell Burnell on pulsars and star dust, John Pratt on contrasts in punishment between Nordic and Anglophone countries, Playing Favourites with computing philosopher Steve McKinlay, Ingrid Horrocks on Mary Wollstonecraft and travel writing, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi.
Full episodeSaturday, 26 January 2013
Jonathan Freedland on the election in Israel, Randy Cohen on ethics and being good, Joe Cross on rebooting through juice fasting, Mary Kisler on the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, Playing Favourites with Adam McGrath of The Eastern, David Lawrence on Shakespeare and theatre, Helen Stead on the Oamaru Scott 100 events.
Full episodeSaturday, 19 January 2013
Repeat interviews with Chandran Nair, Katherine Boo, Pete Townshend, and Delaney Davidson.
Full episodeSaturday, 12 January 2013
Repeat interviews with Susan Orlean, Michel Tuffery, Dan Beban and Mitchell Pham.
Full episodeSaturday, 5 January 2013
Repeat interviews with Steve Keen, Caitlin Moran, John Cooper Clarke, Tom Scott of Homebrew, and David Agus.
Full episodeSaturday, 29 December 2012
Repeat interviews with John Lanchester, Teju Cole, Damon Salesa, Nigel Beckford and Nick Lowe.
Full episodeSaturday, 22 December 2012
Stephen Epstein on South Korea, Daniel Klein on philosophy and ageing, Jo Morgan on adventure and philanthropy, Seasick Steveon living the blues, Playing Favourites with musicians Tama Waipara, Joe Lindsay and Iain Gordon, and Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch on books in 2012.
Full episodeSaturday, 15 December 2012
Gregory Johnsen on Yemen and Al-Quaeda, Paul Wah on teaching and China, Shaun Preston on his entertainment career, Playing Favourites with drummer and career consultant Mike Dooley, screenwriter David Magee on adapting Life of Pi, Bryce Galloway on making zines.
Full episodeSaturday, 8 December 2012
Michael Nugent on blasphemy, Richie McCaw on rugby and leadership, Kathleen Sharp on whistleblowers and drug companies, Art with Mary Kisler: patron’s gifts, Playing Bluegrass with the Pipi Pickers, Rebecca Watson on girls and shopping, Brianna Fruean on youth, power and climate change, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: multiple narrators.
Full episodeSaturday, 1 December 2012
Uma Kothari on aid, celebrities and military governments, James Russell on the science of rat management, Gordon Parker on memory and the numbers 7 and 4, reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff, Farah DeJohnette on training horses, Richard Simpson on streams and places and big data.
Full episodeSaturday, 24 November 2012
Kalle Lasn on Buy Nothing Day and Meme Wars, Margaret Brimble on organic chemistry and winning the Rutherford Medal, filmmakers Shirley and Roger Horrocks on transiting Venus, Sylvie Simmons on Leonard Cohen, Robert Thirkell on reality television, Kate De Goldi on three new children’s books.
Full episodeSaturday, 17 November 2012
Clive Peedell on national health action in the UK, Mason Tvert on legalising marijuana in Colorado, Benjamin Lorr on Bikram yoga, Jim Endersby on imperial science and NZ plants, Playing Favourites with Richard Meros, Kim Dong-Sung on finance and faith, Sam Rye on food distribution.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 November 2012
Peter Ubel on the doctor/patient relationship, Dava Sobel on Copernicus and the heavens, Art with Mary Kisler: Napoleon, Playing Favourites with ballet director Ethan Stiefel, Wade Doak on the oceans, Ian Singleton on orangutans.
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