All episodes
Saturday, 2 December 2023
- 8:12 Andy Mitchell: an insider's guide to psychedelics
- 9:08 Linda Bryder: the best country to give birth?
- 9:50 Danyl McLauchlan: an argument for eco-terrorism
- 10:09 Greg Sestero on friendship, creativity and why The Room is so fun to watch
- 10:50 Richard Jackson: Does NZ really need its defence force?
- 11:08 Elinor Karlsson: Darwin’s Dogs and DNA
- 11:40 Sam and Ellie Studd: How to love cheese
Saturday, 25 November 2023
- 8:10 Michael Rosen: Getting over it, and getting through it
- 8:50 The coalition government and the Treaty
- 9:05 Adrian Edmondson: 'The more you hurt yourself, the more people laugh'
- 9:30 Richard Flanagan: chain reactions
- 10:05 Tim Minchin: Seriously funny
- 10:30 Gary McCormick: Karaoke, Kim and me
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Kim Hill
- 11:45 Kim and Hannah
- 11:55 Listener feedback 25 November 2023
Saturday, 18 November 2023
- 8:10 Who killed the Crewes? Opening the book on a cold case
- 8:50 Gregory De Pascale: Iceland on edge, waiting for eruption
- 9:05 Kashmir Hill: facial recognition software and the end of privacy
- 9:35 Amanda Smith Barusch: embracing the rage that comes with age
- 10:00 Richard O'Rawe: In the Name of the Son
- 10:30 Dr Max Berry: the huge job of looking after tiny babies
- 11:00 Playing Favourites with Oscar Kightley
- 11:59 Saturday listener feedback
Saturday, 11 November 2023
- 8:10 Naomi Klein and the other Naomi
- 9:08 Bradley Walsh: Chasing his dreams
- 9:43 Isaac Heron: from foster care to Oxford University
- 10:06 Clementine Ford: 'I want to prevent marriages'
- 10:45 The natural hazards in your neighbourhood
- 11:06 Mary Beard: ruling the Roman Empire
- 11:50 Once bittern twice shy: backing an under-bird
- 11:59 Saturday listener feedback
Saturday, 4 November 2023
- 8:10 Spencer Ackerman: are America's 9/11 mistakes being repeated?
- 8:45 Ana Swanson: can container ships ever be green?
- 9:05 Engineering immune cells to kill cancer
- 10:40 Anna Smaill on her new novel Bird Life
- 10:40 Filmmaker Rosie Morris on the reality of deepfake porn
- 11:05 Nonnita Rees: Robert Lord's Diaries
- 11:35 Organic gardener Kath Irvine: summer fruit tips
Saturday, 28 October 2023
- 8:12 Bottled water, everywhere: Daniel Jaffee
- 8:48 The Final countdown: Jeff Wilson
- 9:07 Misophonia: when small noises are a big problem
- 9:29 Jesmyn Ward: the hell of American slavery
- 10:06 Chuck D rapping lyrical
- 10:45 Smiling about his boys: Kevin Barrett
- 11:08 Robyn Davidson: an Unfinished Woman
- 11:47 Megan Dunn: the private life of public sculpture
- 11:55 Feedback for 28 October 2023
Saturday, 21 October 2023
- 8:00 Saturday morning listener feedback
- 8:10 Gregg Carlstrom: Israel-Gaza latest
- 8:25 'We have to make a huge shift': climate activist and actor Fehinti Balogun
- 8:25 Climate activist and actor Fehinti Balogun
- 8:55 Rugby with Rarere
- 9:05 Paul Lynch on his Booker shortlisted novel Prophet Song
- 9:35 Simon Tisdall: Israel-Gaza going global?
- 10:05 Kate Mulgrew: where no woman has gone before
- 10:40 Danyl McLauchlan: the rise of Bronze Age Pervert
- 11:05 Lisa Simone: celebrating Nina
- 11:40 Toby Manhire: Election aftermath
Saturday, 14 October 2023
- 8:13 Robin Wright: Israel Gaza war explained
- 9:07 Ian Urbina: slavery on the high seas
- 9:35 Reporting from Israel: Lyse Doucet
- 10:05 Reggae maestro Dennis Bovell headed downunder
- 10:35 David & Conor Kershaw: 150 years of Martinborough's P&K store
- 10:45 Frank Gardner on Israel's lack of preparedness
- 11:06 Cristina Rivera Garza: grief demanding justice
- 11:38 Rebecca Priestley: navigating end times
Saturday, 7 October 2023
- 8:10 Kim Stanley Robinson: Imagining the future and finding hope
- 9:05 Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins in their own words
- 10:05 Can man-made ivory save the elephants?
- 10:35 Kiwi film-maker lifting the lid on California's pistachio wars
- 11:05 New Zealand Chamber Choir marks 25 years with national tour
- 11:35 New TV series flirts with what's 'unacceptable' for middle-aged women
Saturday, 30 September 2023
- 8:10 Trent Dalton on his new novel Lola in the Mirror
- 8:45 Nathan Rarere at half time
- 9:05 Prof Benjamin Oldroyd: Epigenetics and evolution
- 10:05 Jennifer Egan on homelessness
- 10:35 Nicola Joyce: empathy in song-writing
- 11:05 Akram Khan: Jungle Book reimagined
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Listener feedback
- 1:35 Tracking down stolen masterpieces: 'It's a dangerous game'
Saturday, 23 September 2023
- 9:08 David McAllister: Ballet Confidential
- 9:45 Supreme WOW Winner: Gill Saunders does it again
- 11:01 Playing Favourites with Kerry Ann Lee
- 11:05 Melanoma researcher experimenting on his own brain tumour
- 11:35 Olive Jones: anarchy and idealism at the Graham Downs commune
- 12:00 Saturday morning listener feedback
- 3:40 Prof Emma Teeling: bats may hold the secret to living longer
- 12:00 Prof Mark Blagrove: The stories dreams tell
Saturday, 16 September 2023
- 8:10 Former UK Prime Minister Theresa May her book, The Abuse of Power
- 8:55 Nathan Rarere: All Blacks vs Namibia
- 9:05 Julia Ebner: how extremist ideas are taking over
- 9:40 Graham Leonard: how prepared are we for a tsunami?
- 10:40 Ron Crosby: Te Kooti's Last Foray
- 11:00 One performer/ten Divas: Bernadette Robinson
- 11:40 Peter Butler: Night Tribe
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
- 3:05 Prof Kevin Tracey: How vagus nerve stimulation will revolutionise medicine
Saturday, 9 September 2023
- 8:10 Nathan Rarere: All Blacks v France at half time
- 8:20 Bernie Taupin: Elton, music and me
- 9:05 Richard Ford: closing the book on Frank Bascombe
- 9:45 Reporting Rugby: Gavin Mairs - All Blacks vs France
- 10:00 Scam baiter Jim Browning
- 10:45 Dr Laura Domigan: from cells in the lab to steaks on a plate
- 11:00 The first social media babies have grown up - and they're angry
- 11:40 Organic gardener Kath Irvine: how to grow seedlings
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
Saturday, 2 September 2023
- 8:10 An uninvited kiss - a pivotal moment in women's football?
- 9:05 The weird and wonderful worlds of Patrick deWitt
- 9:30 Liv McClymont and Aurora Garner-Randolph: standing up for consent
- 10:40 Pet detective Anne-Marie Curry
- 11:05 Triggered? Dr Jonathan Shedler on the overuse of therapy speak
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 2 September 2023
- 3:00 Artist Ned Wenlock dives into a new medium with Tsunami graphic novel
- 4:40 The Beths: Why Kiwi artists struggle in Australian music scene
- 10:05 Brian Christian: how would we know if AI becomes conscious?
Saturday, 26 August 2023
- 8:10 City Shaper Roger Madelin
- 9:05 David Scheel: the mysteries of octopuses
- 9:40 Calling in the debt owed by slave-holding nations
- 10:05 Graphic designer Paula Scher: painting with words
- 10:40 Danyl McLauchlan: a Machiavellian view of politics
- 11:06 Polly Barton: an oral history of pornography
- 11:36 Colin Monteath: Erebus, ice and fire
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 26 August 2023
Saturday, 19 August 2023
- 8:10 Barrie Rice: We Were Blackwater
- 9:35 Tom Kay: let the river go with the flow
- 10:05 From cage fighter to writer: Airana Ngarewa
- 10:35 Richard von Sturmer: a year walking and dreaming in the Waikato
- 11:05 Playing favourites with When The Cat's Away
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 19 August 2023
- 5:05 How to talk to kids about fatphobia
Saturday, 12 August 2023
- 8:10 Dr Ratu Mataira: Kiwi physicist joins the nuclear fusion race
- 9:05 Gabriel Krauze: raw writing from the streets of London
- 9:45 Megan Dunn: worshipping art
- 10:05 Celebrating hip hop's golden anniversary with Darryl Leigh Thomson
- 11:05 Jared Davidson: how prison labour built New Zealand
- 11:30 Prof John Plotz: finding new meaning in old books
- 12:00 Listener feedback for August 12 2023
Saturday, 5 August 2023
- 8:10 Gez Medinger: an insider's guide to Long Covid
- 9:11 Former US Judge Nancy Gertner on Trump's charges and chances
- 10:05 Dr Roderick Mulgan: How to boost your immunity to disease
- 10:30 Dr Cady Coleman: the loneliness of life in space
- 11:10 Anna Funder: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 5 August 2023
- 6:00 Emojis expert tells all: Characters and their alternative meanings
Saturday, 29 July 2023
- 8:10 Prof Peter Ditlevsen: crucial ocean current system heading for collapse
- 9:05 Alice Sherwood: the fashion for authenticity in a world of fakes
- 9:40 Marie Darrieussecq: reflections on insomnia
- 10:05 Deborah Hunt: the romance of Red Mole
- 10:45 Dr Alyssa Lie: could eye drops replace reading glasses?
- 12:00 Saturday morning feedback
- 4:06 How pain affects our pets' behaviour
- 3:05 Playing favourites with Joel Tobeck
Saturday, 22 July 2023
- 8:10 Gaia Vince: mass climate migration is inevitable
- 9:05 Prof Danny Altmann: the burden of long COVID
- 9:40 Volcanologist Graham Leonard: the magma under Auckland
- 10:05 Filmmaker Nicolas Philibert on the art of patient observation
- 10:45 Aesha Scott: the reality of life below deck on super yachts
- 11:05 'Survived the test of time': Vegemite spread still popular 100 years on from invention
- 11:30 Thomasin Sleigh on The Words For Her
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 22 July 2023
Saturday, 15 July 2023
- 8:10 Rokhaya Diallo: how racist policing is fueling unrest in France
- 8:30 Caitlin Moran: saving men from the patriarchy
- 9:49 Te Rangi Huata: lighting Matariki bonfires for Mahuika
- 10:05 Lucy Hone: coping with devastating grief
- 10:40 Patsy Carlyle: the Barbie Collector
- 11:06 Alice Englert: "Bad Behaviour"
- 11:40 Poet Jenny Bornholdt: A Garden is a Long Time
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 15 July 2023
- 2:05 Ben Smith: How clicks, likes and shares ruined digital news
Saturday, 8 July 2023
- 8:10 Prof Susan Rossell: Australian psychiatrists can prescribe MDMA and psilocybin
- 9:05 Lisa Cortés: Little Richard and the queer Black origins of rock'n'roll
- 9:35 Andrew Paul Wood: the history of the occult in Aotearoa
- 10:05 Antony Loewenstein: Palestine a testing ground for war tech
- 10:40 Organic gardener Kath Irvine: winter gardening wisdom
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Roseanne Liang
- 12:00 Listener Feedback
- 4:30 'Happiness is elusive' - Bill Bailey on the joys of ambling and rambling
Saturday, 1 July 2023
- 8:10 Emily Hanford: are we teaching reading all wrong?
- 9:05 Justin Gregg: when orca teach themselves to attack
- 9:35 Gerard Hindmarsh on Rarotonga’s pub "Trader Jack" Cooper
- 10:05 Suzanne Heywood: how a family sailing trip became a nightmare
- 10:40 Danyl McLauchlan: why politicians love to invoke dystopias
- 11:05 Serhii Plokhy: the history and future of the Ukrainian war
- 11:45 Ankita Singh: Aotearoa's kickboxing anime-loving playwright
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 1 July 2023
Saturday, 24 June 2023
- 8:10 Nick McKenzie: Ben Roberts-Smith - the war hero turned criminal
- 9:05 Naomi Oreskes: how Big Business made us love the free market
- 9:35 Musician Jordyn with a Why: Who gets to learn Te Reo Maori?
- 10:35 Painters Euan Macleod and Geoff Dixon create over Facetime
- 11:05 Judy Blume: 'I am very happy with my life'
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 24 June 2023
- 7:05 Pamela Clark: don't make the tip truck cake
Saturday, 17 June 2023
- 8:12 Jenny Nguyen: 'Sports Bra' bar supporting women's sports
- 9:04 Isabel Allende on forced immigration and family separation
- 9:28 Dagan Wells: babies born using three-person IVF
- 10:08 Are humans the smartest animal, or the dumbest?
- 10:47 Jock Scott on the endangered sport of outdoor curling
- 11:05 Lucinda Williams’ rock’n’roll life
- 11:45 Megan Dunn: the fine art of winning prizes
- 12:00 Listener Feedback
