All episodes
Saturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 12 May 2012
Catherine Fieschi on right wing popularism in Europe, Oliver Jeffers on his art and picture books, Jeffrey Eugenides on marriage and plots, Simon Manchester on potter Len Castle, Playing Favourites with philosopher Thomas Wartenberg, André Cointreau on Le Cordon Bleu, Kath Irvine on planning fruit trees and rootstock.
Full episodeSaturday, 5 May 2012
Ross Ashcroft on renegade economics, Ian Watson on Alan Turing and artificial intelligence, Claire Tomalin on Charles Dickens, Li Chen on Kickstarter and web comics, Playing Favourites with Angela Meyer, Juergen Boos on the Frankfurt Book fair, Mal Peet on his books for young adults.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 April 2012
Chandran Nair on capitalism, consumption and Asia, J. Hampton Atkinson on cannabis research, Marti Anderson on statistics and diving, Playing Favourites with Sam Wills aka The Boy With Tape On His Face, Emily Perkins on writing and her new novel, Tim Blanks on fashion and fragrance.
Full episodeSaturday, 21 April 2012
Michael Hastings on US military commanders, Paul Roy on filming in an Indian hospital, Dr David B. Agus on the end of illness, Playing Favourites with conductor Hamish McKeich, Jim Marchbank on science museums, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 14 April 2012
Keith Yamashita on leadership and design, Mitchell Pham on Vietnam, New Zealand and business, Playing Favourites with Tom Scott of HomeBrew and @Peace, Damon Salesa on Pacific health, Paul Ward on NZ screen moments.
Full episodeSaturday, 7 April 2012
Victoria Davis on medicinal marijuana, Joyce Alberts on false memories, Greg O’Brien on art and poetry in Cork, the Kermadecs and Tonga, Doug Backhouse on resilient comminities, Playing Favourites with Hollie Fulbrook a.k.a. Tiny Ruins, Sonny Tilders on building animatronic dragons, Pietra Brettkelly on her films about Outward Bound and a Maori boy genius
Full episodeSaturday, 31 March 2012
Daniel Hamermesh on how beauty pays, Damon Salesa on solutions for the Pacific, Greg McGee on love and money, Mary Kisler on Vincent van Gogh, Lucinda Williams on songs and relationships, Sally Kabak on grandparents as caregivers, Margo Lanagan on selkies
Full episodeSaturday, 24 March 2012
Nicole Foss on global finance and peak oil, Roddy Doyle on middle aged men and teaching children, Claire Stent on the New Zealand Yearbooks, singer-songwriter Nick Lowe on his career reinvention, Tony Taylor on fishing and time, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 17 March 2012
Will Haughey on toys in Honduras, Catherine Syms on teaching ethics, Richard Davenport-Hines on the lives of those who sailed on the Titanic, Playing Favourites with architect David Mitchell, filmmakers Maramena Roderick & Julian Arahanga on their series about songwriting in prison, Gardening with Kath Irvine: fruit trees.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 March 2012
Gary Mulgrew on fraud and prison, Dr Craig Rodger on solar flares, Leonard Bell on the history of Jews in NZ, Mary Kisler on the Degas to Dali exhibition, Playing Favourites with director and producer Simon Bennett, actor Blythe Duff on beauty and boxing, “slipstream” writer Kelly Link.
Full episodeSaturday, 3 March 2012
Jess Hill on Saudi Arabia, Norman Harris on jogging and other sports, punk poet John Cooper Clarke, Jen Hay on filled pauses, Playing Favourites with musician Gerry Paul, Appalachian writer Ron Rash, Maureen Woodhams on maths and children.
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