All episodes
Saturday, 19 November 2011
Sigurbjörg Sigurgeirsdóttir on Iceland’s economy, Dusty Gedge on living roofs, Paul Bennett on surf, drugs and mental health, Playing Favourites with Neil and Sharon Finn, Rutherford Medal winner Christine Winterbourn on free radicals, author Colleen McCullough on her memoir.
Full episodeSaturday, 12 November 2011
Raf Manji on the economy and monetary dialysis, Jack Ralston on coaching champions, Richard Gough and experimental theatre and food, Playing Favourites with children’s media expert David Kleeman, Peter Graham on the Parker/Hulme murder, Jay O’Callahan on stories and science.
Full episodeSaturday, 5 November 2011
Ravi Batra on predicting crises, Michael Corballis on aspects of the brain, Mary Kisler on art in Venice, Flying Nun Favourites with Bruce Russell, Annie Potts on chickens and companion animals, Kate De Goldi with three new children's books
Full episodeSaturday, 29 October 2011
Guest presenter Paul Diamond interviews Fintan O’Toole on the Irish presidency, Brian Calhoun on retaking the Net, Kevin Prime on governance and action, Paul Hamer on Maori in Australia Playing Favourites with composer Jenny McLeod, Fiona Farrell on walking and the broken city, Edward Meyer on collecting weirdness
Full episodeSaturday, 22 October 2011
Thomas Friedman on globalisation and the USA, Sir Paul Callaghan on New Zealand’s future, Simon Wallace on dairying in Brazil, Playing Favourites with Garth Cartwright, Dame Kate Harcourt on her theatre life, Bruce Ansley on lost buildings of Christchurch.
Full episodeSaturday, 15 October 2011
Kiran Martin on Delhi slums, Kate Camp on the Frankfurt Book Fair, Pat Deavoll on mountaineering, Playing Favourites with Chris Guise, Nicky Saker on Katherine Mansfield, Poetry with John Adams, Gardening with Kath Irvine.
Full episodeSaturday, 8 October 2011
Tom Keneally on famine, Costas Panayotakis on youth in revolt, Niki Harré on psychology and sustainability, Playing Favourites with Mikee Tucker of LOOP, Tony Parker on NZ design excellence, Kate De Goldi on her literary tour of the UK.
Full episodeSaturday, 1 October 2011
Luke Harding on Russia, Peter Lineham on rugby as religion, Duncan Watts on common sense and society, Paul Brewer on Anatoly Kuchumov, Playing Favourites with Whirimako Black, James Lee Burke on evil and redemption, Kath Irvine on hot boxes and asparagus.
Full episodeSaturday, 24 September 2011
Yasmine Ryan on Tunisia, Paul Diamond on murder and the Whanganui mayor, Nancy Andreasen on creativity and mental illness, Martyn Myer on Wanaka and philanthropy, Playing Favourites with Simon O’Neill, Jonathan Lemalu, Madeleine Pierard and Sarah Castle, Kevin McCloud on grand designs, Stephen Jenkinson on companion animals in urban life
Full episodeSaturday, 17 September 2011
Michael Watts on Africa, oil and inequality, John Carlin on Rafael Nadal, Caitlin Moran on modern feminism, youth parliamentarian Michael Bendall, Playing Favourites with Joyce Fleming, Libby Hakaraia on reviving It’s In The Bag and other screen projects, Dieter Paulmann on saving the oceans
Full episodeSaturday, 10 September 2011
Writer Cheryl Sucher on New York, Biologist Elizabeth Iorns on outsourcing science, filmmaker John Waters on This Filthy World, Mary Kisler on Art, Playing Favourites with artist Darcy Nicholas, Writer Dame Anne Salmond on William Bligh, Gardening with Kath Irvine
Full episodeSaturday, 3 September 2011
Andrew Holden, editor of the Christchurch Press, cartoonist, satirist, author and playwright Tom Scott, Johnny Moore is the owner of the Goodbye Blue Monday in Christchurch, documentary producer Alan Hall, rower Donald Leggett, engineer and author David Haywood and Jen Hay, the director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour at the University of Canterbury.
Full episodeSaturday, 27 August 2011
Journalist Pepe Escobar on Libya, geologist Bruce Hayward on volcanoes, scriptwriter John Banas on Underbelly NZ, Playing Favourites with musician Jeff Smith, neurologist David Eagleman on the unconscious brain and poetry with Peter Bland
Full episodeSaturday, 20 August 2011
Harry Sinclair on life in L.A., John Buck on dynamic governance, Ann Andrews on Parkinson’s, Art with Mary Kisler: surrealism, Playing Favourites with music writer Simon Reynolds , John Parker on ceramics and design, Maria V. Snyder on weather and dystopia
Full episodeSaturday, 13 August 2011
Paul Lewis on the British riots, Norman Hammond on Mayan civilisation, John Kendrick on bird watching and recording, Playing Favourites with publisher Vincent Heeringa, master chef Justin North, Gardening with Kath Irvine: chickens, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 6 August 2011
Terry Eagleton on Marx, faith and evil, Joyce McKinney on the film Tabloid, Rebecca Cann on how humans evolved out of Africa, Yuan Ping on fencing, Playing Favourites with craft brewers the Yeastie Boys (Stu McKinlay and Sam Possenniskie), poet laureate Ian Wedde, and designer Luke Wood.
Full episodeSaturday, 30 July 2011
Errol Morris on tabloids, documentaries and truth, Yves Smith on the US economy, Frank Bowden on pathogens and viral infections, Brad Argent on genealogy, Playing Favourites with ethnomusicologist Paul Wolffram, Fiona Campbell on the Real Art Roadshow, Chris Bourke on his award-winning NZ music history.
Full episodeSaturday, 23 July 2011
John Harris on phones, the press and politics, James Marsh: chimps and humans, Peter Donnelly on genes and statistics, Julian Robins on politics in Washington D.C., Paul Theroux on travel and writing, Michael Smythe on New Zealand product design, Kath Irvine on garden preparation for the growing season.
Full episodeSaturday, 16 July 2011
Michael Wolff on Rupert Murdoch, Tyler Cowen on economic stagnation, thriller writer and former journalist Gerald Seymour, Diane Pivac on NZ’s film history, Playing Favourites with Bill Sheat, Adam Mansbach on parenting, comedy and race, new children’s books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 9 July 2011
Andrew Rossi on his film about the New York Times, Vana Manasiadi on the turmoil in Athens, Erin Bigler on the brain and autism, Nick Hedley on visualising data, Playing Favourites with writer and musician Damien Wilkins, Simon Ngawhika on paddling the Pacific and the mistribution of food, Adam Pruden on airborne communication.
Full episodeSaturday, 2 July 2011
Susan Saladoff on hot coffee and tort law, Rachel McKee on sign language, Rob Hammil on the murder of his brother, Art with Mary Kisler: power animals. Len Lye Favourites with Tyler Cann, Anthony ‘LT’ Menginie on growing up in the Pagans gang, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: four new books
Full episodeSaturday, 25 June 2011
Nicholas Shaxson on tax havens and global capital, Philip Lane on economic vulnerability, Peter Toohey on boredom, Playing Favourites with Carla Russell of the NZ Art Show, film director Florian Habicht on love in New York, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman on earthquakes and kamikazes.
Full episodeSaturday, 18 June 2011
Matt Ridley on rational optimism, Maureen Bisognano on changing health care, Ngila Dickson on costume design and films, Playing Favourites with “Queen of Wool” Mary-Annette Hay, Amitav Ghosh on language and the opium wars, Jeremy Randerson on his weird new web series
Full episodeSaturday, 11 June 2011
Ibrahim Elmetri on Libya, Geraldine Brooks on reporting and imagining, Cornel de Ronde on finding the Pink and White Terraces, Platon on photographing the powerful , Playing Favourites with Doug Jerebine, Martin Nowak on co-operation, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins on NZ fashion history.
Full episodeSaturday, 4 June 2011
Harvey Wasserman on nuclear power, Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones on Operation 8, National Librarian Bill Macnaught, Alan Broadbent on musical directing, Playing Favourites with Chris Hart of Real Groovy, Robert McLeod on art and commerce, Greg O’Brien on the Kermadecs.
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