All episodes
Saturday, 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).
Full episodeSaturday, 12 July 2008
Broadcast live from the Dunedin studio, with frog conservationist Phil Bishop, child health expert Fiona Stanley, Geoff Henderson on wind power, Graeme Downes on songwriting, Jim Byars on boutique baking and cooking, Steve August on hot tubs.
Full episodeSaturday, 5 July 2008
Alex Gibney on the US and Iraq, pharmacology pioneer Jilly Evans, Jill Bolte Taylor on stroke and recovery, Kate Camp’s Klassic (Dracula), novelist James Lee Burke, artist Fiona Hall, locavores Alisa Smith and JB Mackinnon, Julia Marshall of Gecko Press.
Full episodeSaturday, 28 June 2008
Film director Geoffrey Smith, Anne de Courcy on Snowdon, Nicholson Baker on World War II, Nick Atkinson in Norway, poet Martin Edmond, Paddington Bear creator Michael Bond, Jo Randerson on ‘outsider’ art.
Full episodeSaturday, 21 June 2008
Jim Lindner on the digitisation of video, Brian Taaffe on the battle for Crete, Chris Brickell on NZ’s gay male history, singer Anna Rugis, migrant adviser Ruth deSouza, Sima Urale and Shuchi Kothari on their film Apron Strings.
Full episodeSaturday, 14 June 2008
Lindsay Diggellmann on Magna Carta, religious philosopher William Lane Craig, former Prime Minister’s wife Cherie Blair, designer Grant Davidson, singer songwriter Gin Wigmore, John Kennedy on blind artists, Ali Foster on Elwyn Welch and the takahe.
Full episodeSaturday, 7 June 2008
Alan Hart on peak oil, weaver Leilani Rickard, artist John Reynolds, rugby commentator Jedi Thian, researcher Greg Clydesdale, Jay Rayner on great restaurants, Paul Tobin and Daniel Falconer on creating Narnia.
Full episodeSaturday, 31 May 2008
Racing car driver Mario Andretti, Nicholas Rasmussen on amphetamines, Stephen Parke on neutrinos, Kate Camp’s Klassic (Mrs Dalloway), actor and director Michael Hurst, Emma Featherstone on big school bands, Bridget van der Zijpp on revenge.
Full episodeSaturday, 24 May 2008
Luke Harding in Moscow, cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh, artist Max Gimblett, Jan McLeod and Graham Jackson on the China earthquake, theatre director Simon Philips, songwriter Jason Blume, Roi Colbert on sports and other stuff, Tina Matthews on her Little Red Hen book, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (Australian books).
Full episodeSaturday, 17 May 2008
Broadcast live from the Auckland studio for Writers and Readers 2008, with Maher Mughrabi on the Middle East, Loretta Napoleoni on rogue economics and terrorism, Simon Montefiore on Stalin and other Russians, Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz, musician Steve Abel, poet Tusiata Avia, crime writer Peter Temple, broadcaster Janet Street-Porter.
Full episodeSaturday, 10 May 2008
Kathy Marks on Pitcairn Island sex abuse, Terry Hicks on his son’s internment at Guantanamo, biographer Hermione Lee on Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, Neil Gemmell on the platypus genome, Peter Cameron on suduko and mathematics, Ron Hanson on White Fungus, William E. Marks on water, Suzanne Innes-Kent on relationships.
Full episodeSaturday, 3 May 2008
Thomas Kohnstamm on travel writing, Glen Lauder on Gandhi and the environment, Eric Wilson on melancholia, Kate Camp’s Klassic (Doctor Zhivago), soprano Antoinette Halloran, sharkophile Rob Stewart, Mani Bruce Mitchell on being intersex, Greg O'Brien on painting for the young.
Full episodeSaturday, 26 April 2008
Pramod Parajuli on Nepal, novelist Helen Garner, philosopher John Gray, photographer Harvey Benge, architect Brendan Macfarlane, Helen Leach on pavlovas, Gemma Gracewood on arts TV, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (books featuring dolls).
Full episodeSaturday, 19 April 2008
Frances Kennedy in Rome, Te Maire Tau on Ngai Tahu, mathematician Stanisalas Dehaene, Sandy Callister on photography of WW1 soldiers, astronaut Nicole Stott, artist Nigel Brown, food with Jane Webster, spoken word performer Henry Rollins.
Full episodeSaturday, 12 April 2008
Jill Worrall in Bhutan, Janna Levin on Kurt Godel and Alan Turing, Joanna Woods on Charles Baeyertz and the Triad, Eric Arnold on wine making in Marlborough, musician Suzi Quatro, model maker Greg Broadmore, Janice Marriott and Virginia Pawsey on friendship and gardening, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (the Little House books).
Full episodeSaturday, 5 April 2008
Raed Jarra on Iraq, Jill Trevelyan on Rita Angus, ‘Bodies’ creator Jed Mercurio, Kate Camp’s Klassic (Catch 22), Gary Dexter on Catch 21 and other titles, musicologist Allan Thomas, Farmer John Peterson, Paul Hagesawa-Overacker on Cindy Sherman.
Full episodeSaturday, 29 March 2008
John Powers on Tibet, Annie Goldson on murder in Fiji, teacher and writer Bernard Beckett, Martin Silink on diabetes, the NZTrio playing favourites, Peter Calder on theatre criticism, Sarah Hodge on growing and eating green plants, Russell Brown on digital TV, Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi (three new books).
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