All episodes
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Fatima Bhutto on Pakistan, Rob McBrearty on sponges and cancer, Art with Mary Kisler: local revolutionaries, Playing Favourites with Rowan Simpson, Peter Whiteford on John Mulgan, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Puffin books
Full episodeSaturday, 7 August 2010
Simon Singh on chiropractors and libel, Nesrine Malik on wearing the burqa, Cindy Gallop on micro-actions, Kate’s Klassic: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Playing Favourites with Tracey Collins, Harold Fromm on veganism, Scott Bregmen on working with disability.
Full episodeSaturday, 31 July 2010
Justice Edwin Cameron on AIDS and South Africa, Joe Randazzo of The Onion, Kathryn Schulz on wrongology, Robyn Bargh on publishing Te Reo, Playing Favourites with Donna Dean, Lydia Wevers on Victorian farm fiction, Kathy Marks on multiculturalism in Bennelong.
Full episodeSaturday, 24 July 2010
Andy Dennis on Iceland, Anthony Gottlieb on voting systems, David Healy on drugs and depression, Language with Jen Hay: intensifiers, Playing Favourites with Mark Simos, Erica Miller channelling Elvis, Elizabeth Frood on ancient Egypt.
Full episodeSaturday, 17 July 2010
Dan McIlrea on friction, elasticity and slinky solutions, Kinky Friedman on life in Texas, James Brabazon on mercenaries in Africa, Art with Mary Kisler: European masters, Playing Favourites with musician David Kilgour, Robyn Hughes on teaching art in prison, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Gary D. Schmidt.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 July 2010
Grant Morris on the oil spill, Briar March on movie making and rising oceans, Andrew Greensmith on plastic surgery, Kate’s Klassic: To Kill a Mockingbird, Playing Favourites with designer Philip Fierlinger, novelist Jane Smiley, molecular biologist Tom McFadden on rapping science.
Full episodeSaturday, 3 July 2010
Daniel Ellsberg on the Pentagon Papers, Arturo Arias on Guatemala, Julie Woods on blind dining, Father Michael Mahoney on mountaineering and Brazil, Bobby Crush on Liberace, Kate de Goldi on Virginia Hamilton.
Full episodeSaturday, 26 June 2010
Gillian Armstrong on the lives of three Australian women, Gillian Turner on Earth's magnetism, Pat Schwass and Anthony Lorigan on breaking cycles of drugs and violence, Lucy Walker on her movies about nuclear weapons and scavenger art, Playing Favourites with comedian Bill Bailey, Katherine Mowbray on cheesemaking, John Black on acupuncture.
Full episodeSaturday, 19 June 2010
Tim de Lisle on how sport got so big, Tanemahuta Gray on Matariki dance festival, Peter Maass on oil, Art with Mary Kisler: Andrew McLeod and Roger Mortimer, Playing Favourites with musician Greg Fleming, Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Susan Price
Full episodeSaturday, 12 June 2010
Alex Bellos on numbers football, Roz Savage on rowing the Pacific, Ted Kaptchuk on the placebo effect, Language with Jen Hay, Wanda Jackson the Queen of Rock-a-billy, New York chef and writer Anthony Bourdain, artist Fiona Jack on memorial halls.
Full episodeSaturday, 5 June 2010
Neil MacKay on dyslexia and autism, Sophie Howard on transmuting sludge, Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan and The Longest Day, choreologist Tatiana Novaes Coelho, Playing Favourites with Maryrose Crook, Sylvie Haisman on the wreck of the Strathmore, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: three recent books.
Full episodeSaturday, 29 May 2010
Hamish Keith in New Orleans, Susan Horwitz on developing cancer drugs, Ian McKellen on Waiting for Godot, Kate’s Klassic: Around the World in 80 Days, Playing Favourites with children's writer William Taylor, psychiatrist and poet Salman Akhtar.
Full episodeSaturday, 22 May 2010
Paul Offit on vaccination, Tom Henderson on shelterboxes, Christopher Hitchens on his memoir, Jeff Apter on the brothers Finn, Sarah Adams on baking and chocolate, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi
Full episodeSaturday, 15 May 2010
Adrian Wooldridge on economics, faith and globalisation, Julien Smith on social marketing, Thomas Keneally on Australia, Mary Kisler on artist Richard Bell, Charlie Higson on young Bond, zombies and the Fast Show, John Carey on William Golding, Rick Gekoski on rare books and his bibliomemoir.
Full episodeSaturday, 8 May 2010
John Freeman of Granta on email, Julian Glover on the UK election, photographer Fiona Pardington, Language with Jen Hay, Playing Favourites with Rhian Sheehan, John Kay on obliquity, Philip Pullman on Jesus and Christ.
Full episodeSaturday, 1 May 2010
Antony Loewenstein on Israel and blogging, Apache pilot Charlotte Madison, Wil Anderson on advertising, Playing Favourites with Helen Medlyn, Robert Oliver on Pacific cooking, Jeffrey Mogil on pain.
Full episodeSaturday, 24 April 2010
Mark Urban on the SAS in Iraq, Bob Rigg on nuclear disarmament, Sheena Iyengar on choice, Kate Camp on Eugene Onegin, Christine Vachon on indie filmmaking, Mark Seabrook-Davison on conserving biodiversity, Julian Clary on camping out, Ashley Ekins on The ANZAC Book.
Full episodeSaturday, 17 April 2010
Kitty Kelley on Oprah Winfrey, Natasha Walter on sexism and feminism, controversial comedian Tommy Tiernan, Playing Favourites with Káren Hunter, Irish writer Colm Tóibín, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: three new books.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 April 2010
Guest host Finlay MacDonald. Guests: Alexander Cockburn on Obama and the US , Jonathan Moses on war crimes, Ray Avery: medical solutions for the developing world, Language with Jen Hay, Playing Favourites with music documentary maker Stephanie Bennett, Neil Cross on writing about criminals and spies, Barry Thomas on films and alcohol.
Full episodeSaturday, 3 April 2010
Bryan Bruce on who killed Jesus, Norbert Hoeller on biomimicry, Barbara Ehrenreich on the cult of cheerfulness, Art with Mary Kisler: triennial risk-taking, Playing Favourites with jeweller Paterson Riley, Angela Lassig on contemporary NZ fashion designers, Bill Barton on maths education and language
Full episodeSaturday, 27 March 2010
Martin Lord Rees on science and society, Lloyd Jones on a library for Bougainville, Dr Dee Boersma on penguins and their survival. Kate Camp on Virgil’s Aeneid, Dr John on music and New Orleans, Dame Malvina Major on a life in song, CK Stead on his big short story win, Bee Dawson on the history of gardening in NZ.
Full episodeSaturday, 20 March 2010
Guest host Mark Cubey. Guests: Daryl Copeland on guerilla diplomacy, Peter Sutton on Australia's aboriginal legacy, Chris Chitty on inventing and engineering, Bobo Pani on dancing and Gershwin, Playing Favourites with drummer and A man Chris Parry. singer Lyle Lovett on Texas music, Frisky and Mannish on their subversive pop school show, Hadyn Green on sport and Twitter.
Full episodeSaturday, 13 March 2010
Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, fashion designer Zandra Rhodes, Bob Buckley on superconductivity, Catherine Healey on debating prostitution, author Neil Gaiman, musician Amanda Palmer,Language with Jen Hay: ordering names.
Full episodeSaturday, 6 March 2010
Richard Blaikie on seeing small, Peter Hallward on Haiti, Sir Christopher Frayling on the arts and government and the spaghetti western, Daniel Fallshaw on slavery in North Africa, Playing Favourites with Don McGlashan, Geoff Dyer on creative non-fiction, Elaine Dyer on Children’s Day.
Full episodeSaturday, 27 February 2010
Ken Auletta on Google, Jack Heinemann on genetic modification and food, John van Maanen on how communities work, filmmaker Barbara Sumner Burstyn on a family’s life, musician Dean Wareham on playing to Warhol’s screen tests, Margo Lanagan on her dark fiction for young readers.
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