All episodes
Saturday, 3 January 2009
Summer selection repeat interviews with Detroit techno musician Mike Banks, and Irish music mainstay Donal Lunny, taongo puoro master Richard Nunns, singer Iarla O'Lionaird and poet Glenn Colquhoun from the Green Fire Islands show.
Full episodeSaturday, 27 December 2008
Summer selection repeat interviews with author J.J. Joseph and Celai Lashlie on male violence, and comedian Lenny Henry.
Full episodeSaturday, 20 December 2008
Niall Ferguson on the finance and history, Anton van Helden on colossal squid, cetaceans and magic, Michael Wolff on Rupert Murdoch, Sister Loyola Galvin on community gardening, film maker Gaylene Preston and the eight musicians who used her Takaka shed for their Woolshed Sessions (Age Pryor, Andy Hummel, Jess Chambers, Justin Firefly Clarke, Al Fraser, Lee Prebble, Peter Hill, Brett Skinner), Alice Waters of pioneering Californian bistro Chez Panisse, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (Louise Fitzhugh and Mary Rodgers).
Full episodeSaturday, 13 December 2008
Malcolm Gladwell on outliers and success, Hilary Pearse on Canada's constitutional crisis, Susan Schenk on how ecstasy and other drugs change the brain and behaviour, Kate Camp on Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, John Darnielle of Mountain Goats, Carol Drinkwater on the history of olives, Gill Pittar on her Milly Molly series of children’s books.
Full episodeSaturday, 6 December 2008
Mark Thomas on his global adventures with Coca-Cola, Kim makes a Leonard Cohen announcement, Lord Bingham on the law, Karl Maughan on painting gardens, Philip Norman on the life of John Lennon, destitute gourmet Sophie Gray on giving frugally, Ian Brodie on his photographic travels around New Zealand, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Russell Hoban.
Full episodeSaturday, 29 November 2008
Gary Marcus on the brain as kluge, photographer Geoff Steven on the world heritage databank, Margaret Atwood on debt, Frances Hill on virtual classrooms and distance learning, Playing Favourites with Steve Katz of Blood, Sweat Tears, Alan Breslau on burn injuries, Fatcat Fishface on New Zealand’s children’s music.
Full episodeSaturday, 22 November 2008
Raj Nahna on volunteering for Obama, author Barbara Anderson, TV and movie star Sir Roger Moore, Art with Mary Kisler, jazz singer and vocal coach Caitlin Smith, Australian comic swing trio The Old Spice Boy, Jennifer McLagan on the benefits and delights of eating fat, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: new books by Gavin Bishop, Dylan Owen, Martin Bailey and J.L. Brisley.
Full episodeSaturday, 15 November 2008
Alan Duff on debt and Dreamboat Dad, Harvey Wasserman on US electoral fraud and reform, Terry Heiler on water and irrigation, Kate Camp on The Call of the Wild, Gerry Fialka on lo-fi video and culture jamming, Stephen Bain on underground theatre, Food with Simon Gault of the Nourish Group, novelist Sarah-Kate Lynch.
Full episodeSaturday, 8 November 2008
Jamil Anderlini on business and freedom in China , Mary Fowler on geophysics and Rutherford, Lawrence Lessig on copyright and corruption, Glyn Harper on soldiers’ photographs of World War One, Playing Favourites with novelist, playwright and filmmaker Anthony McCarten, flamboyant performing artist Warwick Broadhead, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: the I Can Read series.
Full episodeSaturday, 1 November 2008
Nicholas Pearson on the autobiography Me Cheeta and the future of publishing, Anne Glover, chief scientist for Scotland, Barbara Gibson on networking and authenticity, Playing Favourites with author and playwright David Geary, children’s writer Margaret Mahy.
Full episodeSaturday, 25 October 2008
Martin Lindstrom on neuromarketing, Steve Dublanica on waiting in NYC, David Penny on biology and genetics, Mark Amery on art criticism, Bill Oddie on fighting depression, gardening nun Sister Loyola Galvin, furniture designer David Trubridge, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: illustrator Garth Williams.
Full episodeSaturday, 18 October 2008
Derek Lardelli on Maori art and culture in San Francisco, and the Whales Tohora exhibition in Washington DC, David Marr on the Henson Case, Anne B. Young on the neurodegenerative diseases Huntington’s and Parkinson’s, Kate Camp on The Count of Monte Cristo, Playing Favourites with Brian Butler of Artspace, Dr Jane Goodall DBE on primates and ethics, food with Sophie Gray, destitute gourmet.
Full episodeSaturday, 11 October 2008
David Blume on ethanol as a fuel, Karl Maddaford on Afghanistan, Alan Lightman on physics, literature and humanity, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach on digital learning, musician Jackson Browne, former nun Pauline Grogan, Tony Astle of Antoine’s restaurant, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: Maurice Sendak.
Full episodeSaturday, 4 October 2008
Claudette Werleigh on Haiti, Dr Roger Ridley-Smith on prostitution in Paris, James Flynn on race, class and ideals in the USA, Rod Noble of the Newcastle People's Chorus trade union choir, bass guitarist and music lecturer Rob Burns, Arrowtown chef Pete Gawron, sheep geneticist Mark Young.
Full episodeSaturday, 27 September 2008
Andrew Dalziel on cycling in China, wastebuster Sue Coutts, paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson, animator Rhys Morgan, actor and playwright Steven Berkoff, mobile technology wrangler Brenda Wallace, restaurateur Fleur Sullivan, Children's Books with Kate De Goldi (Ursula Nordstrom and Meindert DeJong).
Full episodeSaturday, 20 September 2008
Nomi Prins on Wall Street, Michael Brooks on the placebo effect, Alastair Thompson of independent media organisation Scoop, Kate Camp on The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, New Zealand Opera manager Aidan Lang, Canterbury entrepreneur and conservationist Roger Beattie, Alanna Mitchell on the global oceanic crisis.
Full episodeSaturday, 13 September 2008
Brazilian economist Eduardo Giannetti, Dr Stephen Shore on aspergers and autism, cultural curmudgeon Hamish Keith, science writer Rebecca Priestley, social and cultural historian Tony Simpson, actor and musician Arthur Meek, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi.
Full episodeSaturday, 6 September 2008
Grant Morris in New Orleans, Simon Winchester on Joseph Needham and China’s secrets, British crime writer Kate Atkinson, African adventurer Nic Twaddle, Detroit techno producer "Mad Mike" Banks, Dr Brian Cox on the Large Hadron Collider, professional organiser Wendy Davie.
Full episodeSaturday, 30 August 2008
Nick Davies on the media, Joanne Drayton on Ngaio Marsh, Michael Braungart on sustainable design, Anton van Helden on melon-headed whales and a magic trick, fashion designer Denise L'Estrange Corbet, Alexa Johnston on traditional food, bass singer Paul Whelan, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (three modern classics).
Full episodeSaturday, 23 August 2008
Nick Carr on Google, Tui de Roy on the albatross, Judge Jerry Paradis on prohibition, Kate Camp’s Klassic (The Trial), theatre director and lecturer David O'Donnell, vegetarian food with Nicky Owers, business historian Ian Hunter.
Full episodeSaturday, 16 August 2008
David Griffin on 9-11 conspiracy, David Colquhoun on Jack Lovelock, JJ Joseph and Celia Lashlie on male violence, former Beach Boy Brian Wilson, music commentator Graham Reid, choreographer Mark Morris, comic genius John Clarke.
Full episodeSaturday, 9 August 2008
Free software advocate Richard Stallman, James Flynn on IQ, Phil Bishop on frogs, blues musician Dave Murphy, architect Gerald Melling, Roi Colbert on sports and other stuff.
Full episodeSaturday, 2 August 2008
Isabel Hilton of Chinadialogue, investigator Bryan Bruce, Elliott Henderson on Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Kerry Anne Lee on paper ghosts, mountaineer William Pike and his surgeon John Bonning, Sam Roberts on the Rosenberg case, playwright and lawyer Greg McGee, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (three new books).
Full episodeSaturday, 26 July 2008
Luke Harding in Moscow, engineer John Scarry, novelist Richard Powers, Kate Camp’s Klassic (Day of the Triffids), Janet Hunt on wetlands, food with Harriet Harcourt, James Boyce on monks and chant.
Full episodeSaturday, 19 July 2008
Yung Chang on filmmaking in China, Australian novelist Murray Bail, Alun and Helen Bollinger, comedian Lenny Henry, chef Alex Mackay, poet Andrew Johnstone, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (the Paddington books).
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