All episodes
Saturday, 3 November 2012
Victoria Collier on vote rigging on Alice Achan on Uganda, Stephen McDougall on buildings and wool, Trent Mankelow on usability, Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, Rima Te Wiata on her new horror show, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi.
Full episodeSaturday, 27 October 2012
Ben Goldacre on bad pharma, Jonathan Barnbrook on type, design and David Bowie, Matt Yallop on Iceland and technology, Playing Favourites with Simon Sweetman, Memé Churton on Italy, China and NZ, Oliver Percovich on creating Skateistan.
Full episodeSaturday, 20 October 2012
Pete Townshend of The Who on his autobiography Who I Am, Ray Waru on the treasures of Archives New Zealand, Bruce Levin on microbiology, Mary Kisler on Spanish art masterpieces, Playing Favourites with Jon Toogood, Geoff Norman on Buller's Birds, Mark Staufer on The Numinous Place.
Full episodeSaturday, 13 October 2012
Kim Hill broadcasts live from Frankfurt, where New Zealand is the Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair. She speaks to Tina Mendelsohn, Andrew Patterson, Mike Mizrahi, Peter Gordon, Joe Harawira, Leon Radojkovic, Phil Evans, Justin Paton, Paula Morris, Kate Camp, Hamish Clayton, Sam Elworthy, Norman Meehan, Hana Pomare, Fergus Barrowman, and Lewis Holden.
Full episodeSaturday, 6 October 2012
Pasi Sahlberg on improving education, Ian Martin on writing The Thick of It, John Carnochan on reducing violence in Scotland, Max Rashbrooke on social inequality, Playing Favourites with Bernie Griffen, Peter Bush on Mesopotamia, Stephen Merchant on stand-up comedy.
Full episodeSaturday, 29 September 2012
Neil Gemmell on sequencing the tuatara, Dick Taylor on the Pretty Things, Mary Anne Franks on creepshots and online bullying, Playing Favourites with choreographer Parris Goebel, Richard Heinberg on the end of growth, Isaac Hindin-Miller on world fashion.
Full episodeSaturday, 22 September 2012
Damien Echols on life after death row, columnist and author Caitlin Moran, Mary Kisle on the Meridian Lines exhibition, Billy Bragg on singing, songwriting and Woody Guthrie, Gabriel Machovsky-Capuska on gannets, Reuben Ferguson on cycling the world.
Full episodeSaturday, 15 September 2012
Mark Cubey is guest host. He talks to Dr Aeron Davis on the NHS and UK politicians, Steve Mullinjer on leadership in China, Martin Snedden on cricket, rugby and tourism, Wayne Macauley on cooking, service and consumerism, Playing Favourites with filmmakers Robert and Duncan Sarkies, Anna Leese on opera, wine, and love, and Xanthe White on natural gardens.
Full episodeSaturday, 8 September 2012
Toby Manhire is guest host. He talks to Anita McNaught about Syria and the Middle East, David Frum about the Republican and Democratic national conventions, Guy Lawson about fraud on Wall Street, software developer Layton Duncan about leaving Christchurch, Playing Favourites with Simon Grigg, Rosamund Vallings about Chronic Fatuigue Syndrome, and Murray Cook and Greg Page of the Wiggles.
Full episodeSaturday, 1 September 2012
Susie Ferguson is guest host. She talks to Steve Keen on the global financial crisis, Lucas Remmerswaal on financial literacy for children, Playing (Brass) Favourites with trombonist David Bremner, Richard Sugg on corpse medicine and vampires, Jason Stephens on cheating, Sir Andrew Motion on digital poetry and his sequel to Treasure Island, novelist John Boyne on striped pajamas and terrible things.
Full episodeSaturday, 25 August 2012
Paul Diamond is guest host. He speaks with Chris Cleave on London, the Olympics and writing, Sylvia Earle on the oceans and the Cook Islands Marine Park, Alison Jones on first conversations on paper between Maori and Pakeha, Walter Cook on collecting decorative art, Playing Favourites with Welsh tenor Dennis O’Neill, Minnie Baragwanath on making NZ accessible to all, Miriama Ketu-Mackenzie on her education.
Full episodeSaturday, 18 August 2012
Fredrik Gertten on bananas and corporates, Baroness Ilora Finlay of Llandaff on end of life care, Mary Kisler on art at Te Papa, Playing Favourites with actor Catherine Downes, Ry Cooder on music and politics, playwright Mike Hudson on the Beats.
Full episodeSaturday, 11 August 2012
Carol Morley on her film Dreams of a Life, Trevor Richards on the centenary of the ANC, Richard Bean on his hit plays, Betty Gilderdale on her life and children’s literature, Playing Favourites with poet Brian Turner, Neil Gershenfeld on fablabs and digital fabrication, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi.
Full episodeSaturday, 4 August 2012
Katherine Boo on the slums of Mumbai, Graham Henry on teaching and coaching, Mary Kisler on contemporary Pacific art show Home AKL, Playing Favourites with former video roadie Tim Kong, filmmaker Alison Klayman on dissident artist Ai Weiwei, John Dawson on his book of the year, New Zealand’s Native Trees.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 July 2012
James Henry on hiding $21 trillion, Katrina Batten in Hyde Park, Fred Pearce on global land grabs, Matthew Akers on performance artist Marina Abramović, Playing Favourites with Coralie Winn & Ryan Reynolds of Gap Filler, Brian Boyd on Shakespeare’s sonnets, Elizabeth Knox on Margaret Mahy.
Full episodeSaturday, 21 July 2012
Mads Brügger on diplomacy in Africa, Joe Justice and Tim Myer on Wikispeed and agile scrums, Stu Barr on pest traps, Mary Ann France on quilt-stitching in prison, Playing Favourites with filmmaker Alyx Duncan, Charles Lavery on murderer Malcolm Webster, and poet Anna Jackson.
Full episodeSaturday, 14 July 2012
Mike Goodchild on digital earth, Owen Glenn on business and philanthropy, John Lanchester on capital and London, Jen Hay on word habitats, young scientist Yanni Cowie on future fuels, Andrew Dickson on losing weight, and the “Valkiwis” (Morag Atchison, Amanda Atlas, Sarah Castle, Kristin Darragh, Wendy Doyle, Lisa Harper-Brown, Anna Pierard and Kate Spence).
Full episodeSaturday, 7 July 2012
Oliver Burkeman on happiness and self-help, Arnie Gundersen on Fukushima, Vincent Ward on art and movies, Dan Salmon on his new documentary Pictures of Susan, Playing Favourites with writer, musician and publisher Nigel Beckford, and Guy McPherson on the decline of civilization, and agrarian anarchy.
Full episodeSaturday, 30 June 2012
A.A. Gill on America, Bob Wood on his World War II experiences, country musician and social media strategist Aly Cook, Playing Favourites with choreographer Shona McCullagh, Ioan Grillo on Mexico and drug wars.
Full episodeSaturday, 23 June 2012
Tomm Kristiansen on Anders Breivik, Kemal Kirisci on Turkey, Andrew Cooper on oil, Mary Kisler on artist Henry Fuseli, Playing Favourites with Ian and Clare Athfield, Roger Ridley-Smith on medicine and Gallipoli, Kath Irvine on pruning.
Full episodeSaturday, 16 June 2012
Florence Williams on breasts, Dame Carol Kidu on Papua New Guinea, Paul Baker on Polari, Playing Favourites with microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles, Will Ellsworth-Jones on the street artist Banksy, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: six picture books.
Full episodeSaturday, 9 June 2012
Charlie Skelton on Bilderberg, Clive Bibby on the Tolaga Bay wharf, David Skilling on New Zealand’s place in the world, Filomena Tuivanualevu on youth in Fiji, Playing Favourites with Jane and Wyn Davies, Teju Cole on Nigeria and Twitter, Uwe Kolbe on Berlin and poetry.
Full episodeSaturday, 2 June 2012
Tom Watson MP on Murdoch and Britain, Mike Spratt on grape-a-hol and the wine industry, William Tobin on the Transit of Venus, Thomas Lumley on DNA and biostatistics, Playing Favourites with best first fiction winner Hamish Clayton, Ashraf Sewailam on singing and Egypt, Kate De Goldi on two new children’s novels and an ABC book.
Full episodeSaturday, 26 May 2012
Steve Keen on the economic crisis, Dennis Gordon on the NZ inventory of biodiversity, Dan Neil on electric cars, Playing Favourites with DJ and music historian Bill Brewster, Alan Breslau on the beauty of disfigurement, Eli Kent on his hit play and its NZ tour.
Full episodeSaturday, 19 May 2012
Lawrence Krauss on the plausible universe, Bruce Hicks on student protest in Quebec, Chris Szekely on rāhui and libraries, Art with Mary Kisler: Angelica Garnett, Playing Favourites with Dave Moskovitz, Hilary Mantel on her sequel to Wolf Hall, Kate De Goldi with two new NZ children’s books.
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