All episodes
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Susan Orlean on Rin Tin Tin, Christopher Kennedy Lawford on drug addiction, Mike Shepherd of the Kneehigh theatre company, Playing Favourites with Daniel Beban, Chris Stringer on the origins of species, Richie Meyer on silent movies
Full episodeSaturday, 18 February 2012
Derek Handley on changing capitalism, Yvonne Shaw on death with dignity, Bella Bathurst on bicycles, Mary Kisler on Renaissance paintings, Playing Favourites with jewellery artist Lisa Walker, choreographer Hofesh Schecter on politics and dance, Kath Irvine on preparing the garden for autumn.
Full episodeSaturday, 11 February 2012
Robert Glennon on water, novelist Alan Hollinghurst, Playing Favourites with engineer Bob Norman, Sam Hunt and Dick Frizzell on words and pictures, Patrick and Patsy McGrath on Bali Aid.
Full episodeSaturday, 4 February 2012
Wael Ghonim on revolution in Egypt, Fredrik Heffermehl on the Nobel Peace Prize, Anthony McCarten on absent heroes, Richie Meyer on silent movies, Playing Favourites with Megan Salole, Atelier Ted Noten on jewellery, Kate de Goldi on the New York Review Children's Collection.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 January 2012
Kate Camp in Berlin,, Marcus Chown on tweeting the universe, Dr Sharad Paul on skin cancer and books, Playing Favourites with translator John Jamieson, Pacific artist Michel Tuffery.
Full episodeSaturday, 21 January 2012
Suzy van de Kwast on early cafe culture, John Waters on shock value, Playing Trombones with BonaNZa
Full episodeSaturday, 14 January 2012
Rob Hamill on his brother's murder, John Kendrick on birds, Playing Favourites with Mary-Annette Hay
Full episodeSaturday, 7 January 2012
Atul Gawande on medicine and the checklist, painter Robert McLeod, taxi driver David Ifill, Playing Favourites with Will and Annie Crummer.
Full episodeSaturday, 31 December 2011
Platon on photographing the powerful, Dr Caldwell Esselstyn on a plant-based diet, Playing Favourites with Joyce Fleming
Full episodeSaturday, 24 December 2011
Journalist and writer Christopher Hitchens, nightlife pioneer Carmen, saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins, Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch discuss the year in books, Joe Schwarcz: on chemistry, food, sex and ageing.
Full episodeSaturday, 17 December 2011
Luke Harding on Russia, Future Scientist prizewinner Nina Huang, Julian Priest on time and wireless networks, Art with Mary Kisler: Palladio, Scarpa, Canova, Harry Christophers of The Sixteen on: period music, playwright Gary Henderson, Kath Irvine on summer gardening.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 December 2011
Iain Overton on exposing lobbyists, actor Sara Wiseman on her stellar screen career, Oren Gershtein on incubating innovation in Israel, Grant Sheehan on photographing ghosts in the landscape, Playing Favourites with troubadour Delaney Davidson, Jennifer McLagan on eating odd bits, Kate De Goldi on three children’s books.
Full episodeSaturday, 3 December 2011
Grant Morris in New Orleans, John Huckerby on wave and tidal energy, Professor Bernard Spolsky on saving languages, Robert Catto on Hollywood star Rupert Julian, Playing Symphonies with Peter Walls of the NZSO, Dr Julian Rayner on stopping malaria, Nick Carman on skiing the Silk Road
Full episodeSaturday, 26 November 2011
Jane Gleeson-White on double entry bookkeeping, Gerard Smyth on filming the Canterbury earthquakes, Andrew Clifford on sculpture in Waikato, Playing Favourites with guitarist and racer Bill Ward, Annabel Langbei on food and France, David Veart on archeology and food
Full episodeSaturday, 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
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