All episodes
Saturday, 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.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 May 2011
Bryan Caplan on serenity parenting, Michael Morrissey on manic depression, James Gleick on information, Language with Jen Hay: motherese, Playing Favourites with poet Kate Camp, Dale Williams on youth in Otorohanga, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 21 May 2011
Susan Freinkel on plastics, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, Michael Morpurgo on War Horse, Tasmin Little on the naked violin project, Playing Favourites with surfing physicist filmmaker Clive Neeson, Cameron Sinclair on optimistic architecture and a vision for Christchurch, philosopher A. C. Grayling on his secular bible.
Full episodeSaturday, 14 May 2011
James Hansen on climate science, Barbara Strauch on brains, Mary Kisler and Sarah Hillary on art conservation, Playing Favourites with performance poet Rives, A. A. Gill on travel and food, Margo Lanagan on fantasy writing.
Full episodeSaturday, 7 May 2011
Tariq Ali on Pakistan, Atka Reid and Hana Schofield on leaving Sarajevo, Fred Allendorf on evolution and the future, saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins, Playing Trombones with BonaNZa, David Mitchell on writing and stammering, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman on kamikazes and quakes.
Full episodeSaturday, 30 April 2011
Harriet Lamb on fair trade, Mandrika Rupa on the caste system, Kevin Parker on saddleback dialects, Playing (Country) Favourites with John Newton, Dane Mitchell on his art of tangible intangibles, rugby with Spiro Zavos
Full episodeSaturday, 23 April 2011
James McPherson on the American Civil War, Greg Cross on the Pure Blacks cycling team, Taggart Seigel on bees, Irish musician Mary Coughlan, Herman Knipperberg on serial killer Charles Sobhraj, poetry with Airini Beautrais
Full episodeSaturday, 16 April 2011
Richard Denniss on shopping and waste, James Frey: reality and fantasy, Christchurch art with Mary Kisler, Playing Favourites with evolutionary geneticist Paul Rainey, antiquarian bookseller Kay Craddock, three new children’s books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 9 April 2011
Guest host Finlay Macdonald talks with Pepe Escobar on the great Arab revolt, Frances Walsh on housewife history, Anglican Archdeacon Hone Kaa, fashion designer Liz Mitchell, Playing Favourites with musician and writer Ruth Carr, Tom Bower on Bernie Ecclestone and Formula One, cartoonist and illustrator Chris Slane.
Full episodeSaturday, 2 April 2011
Erik Conway on the merchants of doubt, Layton Duncan on software from Christchurch, Cliff Abraham on the brain and Alzheimer’s, Cassandra Treadwell on starting a school in Kenya, Playing Favourites with Will Annie Crummer, James Samuel on Transition Towns for a low-energy future, Maria Tatar on fairytales.
Full episodeSaturday, 26 March 2011
Siddharta Mukherjee on his biography of cancer, film director Alex Gibney on sex and politics, plant pathologist Pamela Ronald on genes, seeds, weeds, Art with Mary Kisler: White Night at the Auckland Festival, Playing Favorites with writer David Vann, Jean Auel on her prehistorical romances, Kate De Goldi with three new children’s books.
Full episodeSaturday, 19 March 2011
Tariq Ali on the US, Islam and China, John McBeth on 40 years’ reporting in Asia, architecty Ric LaPlastrier on Futuna, Tim Robbins on music, movies and politics, Simon Sebag Montefiore on Jerusalem, poetry with Johanna Emeney.
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