All episodes
Saturday, 21 May 2022
- 8:12 Barrie Cassidy: will Scott Morrison be re-elected?
- 8:40 Jonathan Drori: saving bananas and rediscovering orchids
- 9:30 Maryrose Crook: taking The Renderers on tour
- 10:06 Professor Craig Cary: exploring extreme bacteria in Antarctica
- 11:06 Playing Favourites with artist Dame Robin White
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 21 May 2022
- 6:07 Helen Thompson: are we facing an international energy crisis?
Saturday, 14 May 2022
- 8:12 Regine Cabato: how the Marcos dynasty regained power in Philippines
- 8:35 Mike McCartney: famous for more than being Paul’s brother
- 9:05 Kathleen Stock: the professor who lost her career amid toxic gender debate
- 11:05 Prof Roy Kerr: astronomers reveal first image of black hole at Milky Way’s centre
- 11:39 Theia shares stunning new reo Māori project Te Kaahu
- 11:59 Listener feedback
- 5:37 Jennifer Ward-Lealand: more intimacy training on the horizon for actors
- 6:07 Whiti Hereaka: 'This is my version of it' - How a Māori legend won NZ's top book award
Saturday, 7 May 2022
- 8:10 Meirion Jones: how Jimmy Savile hid his crimes for decades
- 8:45 Dr Andy Mycock: lessons from UK on lowering the voting age
- 9:07 Roe v Wade protests outside US Supreme Court
- 9:10 Dr Nic Rawlence: game-changing method to extract ancient DNA
- 9:40 Eleanor Bishop: new opera draws inspiration from Janet Frame
- 10:10 Amit Katwala: the intriguing origins of the polygraph machine
- 10:30 Edward Ashby: helping people understand the mana of Kauri
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Lyttelton legend Al Park
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 7 May 2022
Saturday, 30 April 2022
- 8:13 Owen Bennett: is Elon set for a scuffle with the EU?
- 8:35 Prof Gavin Giovannoni: the common virus thought to cause multiple sclerosis
- 9:09 James Birch: bringing the Bacon to Moscow
- 9:39 Prof Erin Griffey: recreating Renaissance beauty products
- 10:08 Stuart Murdoch: spirituality with Belle and Sebastian’s frontman
- 10:42 Dr David Campbell: our wetlands are wildly misunderstood
- 11:06 Jan Kemp: pioneering NZ poet shares new memoir Raiment
- 11:59 Listener feedback
- 5:35 Rowan of Wycksted: celebrating witches’ new year in the Kaipara
Saturday, 23 April 2022
- 8:10 James Griffiths: Shanghai lockdown stirs online dissent
- 8:35 Pauline Autet: the many firsts of the 2022 Venice Biennale
- 9:05 Jennifer Egan: sharing your unconscious in The Candy House
- 9:35 Jim Lynch: creating a blueprint for the end of extinction
- 10:50 Bill Browder: the man high on Putin’s hit list
- 11:05 Matthew Galloway: why take phosphate from the Western Sahara?
- 11:35 Matt Baker: engineered mosquitoes and mutating mammals
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 23 April 2022
Saturday, 16 April 2022
- 8:12 Prof Mabel Berezin: French elections reveal rightward shift
- 8:35 Aidan Hart: the allure of religious iconography
- 9:08 Keith Kahn-Harris: the surprising journey spurred by Kinder eggs
- 10:06 Playing Favourites with veteran journalist Jim Tucker
- 11:10 Julia Croft: taking Terrapolis to the stage
- 11:39 Megan Dunn: is the future of art a Femmebot?
- 11:59 Listener feedback
Saturday, 9 April 2022
- 8:10 Dr Chris Smith: is the XE variant cause for concern?
- 10:05 Prof John Logan: Amazon and the US union movement
- 10:35 Dr Peter Wills: testing the origins of life on Earth
- 11:05 Cate Le Bon: embracing escapism in California’s Joshua Tree
- 11:35 Sam Duckor-Jones: painting a church pink in the Grey District
- 11:59 Saturday Feedback
- 5:05 Jenny Pattrick: bringing New Zealand history to life through storytelling
- 5:35 Dr Chris Thorogood: the secret life of parasitic plants
Saturday, 2 April 2022
- 8:11 Prof Jeremy Nicholson: the link between Long Covid and heart disease
- 8:40 Areez Katki: breathing new life into the art of embroidery
- 9:08 Tā Tipene O’Regan: a life spent building a bicultural nation
- 9:35 Anna Jackson: unpacking how poetry works through the ages
- 10:06 Playing Favourites with musician Delaney Davidson
- 11:07 Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert: surviving 804 days in an Iranian prison
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 2 April 2022
Saturday, 26 March 2022
- 8:13 Julian Walker: who is the man dubbed ‘Putin’s brain’?
- 8:40 Dr Wijnand Van Tilburg: what makes someone boring?
- 9:07 Kevin Rudd: Detainment of refugees ‘an act of monumental cruelty’
- 10:10 John Darnielle: the 'Satanic Panic' in words and song
- 11:06 Prof David Hayman: hunting for the next pandemic virus
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 26 March 2022
- 4:45 Robert Leonard: the surprising photographs of a young Jane Campion
Saturday, 19 March 2022
- 8:10 Rodney Jones: how China's lockdowns could rock the global economy
- 8:35 Ann Goldstein: bringing Elena Ferrante to the English-speaking world
- 9:05 Gabriel Gatehouse: why the QAnon conspiracy refuses to die
- 10:05 Playing Favourites with musician Teremoana Rapley
- 11:05 Noelle McCarthy: being a daughter and dealing with demons
- 11:35 Kath Irvine: apple picking and autumn in the garden
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 19 March 2022
Saturday, 12 March 2022
- 8:10 Inside the process of creating a new public media entity
- 8:23 Gideon Defoe: the stories behind the world's extinct countries
- 9:07 David McWilliams: 'The global economy is like a tube of toothpaste'
- 9:46 Simon Fenwick: taking table tennis to the next level
- 10:05 Playing Favourites with producer Alan Jansson
- 11:06 Julian Oliver: opening up communications technology for all
Saturday, 5 March 2022
- 8:13 Ukraine invasion: update from the capital Kyiv
- 8:20 Emerson T Brooking: Russia steps up its disinformation campaign
- 8:39 Nigel Slaughter: are we missing the boat on medicinal cannabis?
- 9:48 Doris de Pont: the power of what you wear
- 10:10 David Wengrow: rewriting the history of humanity
- 11:09 Playing Favourites with comedian Pax Assadi
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for 5 March 2022
- 6:08 Michael Schur: The Good Place creator's quest to be perfect
Saturday, 26 February 2022
- 8:10 Ukraine invasion: update from the capital Kyiv
- 8:15 Professor Stefan Wolff: What the West needs to do now
- 8:35 Professor Kurt Krause: why don’t we have effective anti-virals?
- 9:06 British divers share gripping details of Thai Cave rescue
- 9:39 Fiona Jack: the artist going from Nothing to Everything
- 10:05 Professor David Marples: Putin’s true motives for invading Ukraine
- 10:35 Ezra Hirawani: Māori energy retailer empowering people
- 11:05 Hoda Afshar: whistleblowers and possession by the wind
- 11:35 Vincent O'Sullivan: Frankenstein’s creature in Fiordland
- 11:59 Feedback for 26 February 2022
Saturday, 19 February 2022
- 8:42 Chris Smith: Covid-19 science news
- 9:35 Wendy Mitchell: what you need to know about dementia
- 10:06 Playing Favourites with architect Julie Stout
- 11:08 Chris Kraus: murder and meth in Minnesota
- 11:44 Sam Trubridge: making the city a theatre during Covid
- 11:59 Feedback for 19 February 2022
- 4:13 Rose Matafeo: ‘No one should go out with a comedian’
- 5:07 Rutger Bregman: are humans actually hardwired for kindness?
Saturday, 12 February 2022
- 8:10 Andriy Dubchak: reporting from the frontlines of Ukraine
- 8:20 Prof David Marples: Russia has reached point of no return
- 8:35 Alex Ross: ‘It’s nice to see Spotify suffering a bit’
- 9:05 Nils Melzer: the political persecution of Julian Assange
- 9:40 Julie Zhu: the tamariki behind the takeaway counter
- 10:05 John Tucker: celebrating Aotearoa’s house trucks of the 1970s
- 10:35 Prof Robert Stickgold: how advertisers want to hack our dreams
- 11:05 Kaya Wilson: near death experience a catalyst for change
- 11:30 Richard Smart: the labour of love that is the Hundertwasser
- 11:59 Listener feedback for 12 February 2022
Saturday, 5 February 2022
- 8:12 Prof Lone Simonsen: Denmark drops all Covid restrictions
- 8:40 Volker Kuntzsch: algae as an answer to climate change
- 9:07 Elif Shafak: The Island of Missing Trees
- 9:40 Erica Newman: Maori adoptees finding their turangawaewae
- 10:07 Playing Favourites with Auckland Pride’s Max Tweedie
- 11:06 Johann Hari: why we can’t pay attention
- 11:43 Dr Matt Baker: microbiomes and hibernating squirrels
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 5 February 2022
Saturday, 29 January 2022
- 8:10 Prof Vernon Bogdanor: Boris Johnson and the 'partygate' report
- 8:35 Roy Billing: Back treading the boards for Grand Horizons
- 9:40 Trish Johansen: tending to Cambodia's landmine-sniffing rats
- 10:05 Dr Rebecca Johnson: the legacy of the Greenham Women
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with composer Karl Steven
- 11:55 Saturday Morning feedback: 29 January 2022
- 5:05 Bill Hayes: Sweat and our ongoing obsession with exercise
Saturday, 18 December 2021
- 8:13 Prof Peter McIntyre: refocusing Covid-19 vaccine strategies
- 8:45 Tim Higham: living sustainably on Aotea Great Barrier Island
- 9:06 Mike Munro: looking at New Zealand 100 years ago
- 9:43 Kath Irvine: succession planting and summer mulching
- 10:06 Arthur C Brooks: how to build a happy life
- 10:40 Dr Alastair Richards: taking the title of world Scrabble champ
- 11:06 Playing Favourites with Auckland City missioner Helen Robinson
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 18 December
Saturday, 11 December 2021
- 8:10 Anton Troianovski: is Russia preparing to invade Ukraine?
- 8:35 Heather Tilbury Phillips: working with fashion icon Mary Quant
- 9:05 Will Storr: why are humans obsessed with status?
- 9:40 Chris Thompson: breeding good insects to get bad insects
- 10:05 Warren Ellis: how Nina Simone’s gum became a sacred totem
- 11:05 Jonathan Roberts: providing genetic counselling for parents
- 11:40 What's art got to do with it? Megan Dunn on art therapy
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 11 December 2021
Saturday, 4 December 2021
- 8:10 Prof Mohan Dutta: the worrying rise of right-wing Hindutva thinking
- 9:05 Marcus Du Sautoy: the art of the shortcut in math and life
- 9:35 Dr Jane Rigby: Nasa’s biggest ever telescope set to launch
- 10:07 Jennifer Higgie: the astonishing re-emergence of Hilma af Klint
- 10:35 N.K. Jemisin: how sci-fi illuminates humanity's biggest themes
- 11:55 Listener feedback 4 December 2021
- 4:05 Michael Lindsay-Hogg: The unlikely star in new Beatles film 'Get Back'
- 5:35 Prof Tony Ward: helping violent offenders lead better lives
Saturday, 27 November 2021
- 8:10 Chris Smith: new Covid variant Omicron has been detected
- 8:25 Nowroz Ali: escaping the Taliban to make a new home in NZ
- 9:05 Steven Pinker: why being rational is human and matters now
- 10:05 Ann Patchett: a much loved writer asks what matters most
- 10:35 Christopher Boyle: the rise of green hydrogen
- 11:30 Hamish McDouall: Whanganui an international city of design
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
- 5:35 Jo Guy: searching for your lighthouse person
Saturday, 20 November 2021
- 8:10 Simon Marks: Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty
- 8:20 Dr Chris Smith: why does the vaccine wane?
- 8:47 Michael Parmenter: bringing a fresh outlook to folk dancing
- 9:05 Alina Chan: finding the origins of Covid-19
- 9:47 Aroha Novak: sewing shadows of our native plant past
- 10:05 Prof Franca Ronchese: why skin is ground zero for allergies
- 10:35 James Cridland: what does the future hold for radio?
- 11:05 Sophie Roberts: taking destiny into her own hands
- 11:55 Listener Feedback: Saturday Morning with Kim Hill - 20 November 2021
- 5:35 Fergus Barrowman: Giving writers a sporting chance
Saturday, 13 November 2021
- 8:10 Little Amal: the giant puppet that walked from Syria to COP26
- 8:35 Dr Doug Wilson: antiviral pills and the future of mRNA vaccines
- 9:30 Chris Szekely: taking a deep dive into the Turnbull collection
- 10:35 Tu Neill: presenting a window into a Japanese whaling village
- 11:05 Playing Favourites: Moses McKay and Amitai Pati of Sol3 Mio
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 13 November 2021
- 4:05 David Farrier: examining conspiracy culture in New Zealand
- 5:05 Dame Jane Campion: the power of the filmmaker
Saturday, 6 November 2021
- 8:10 Daniel Ellsberg: the patron saint of whistleblowers
- 8:40 Prof Renate Meyer: decoding signals from the universe
- 9:05 Fran Lebowitz: ‘I've always been old at heart’
- 9:40 Danyl McLauchlan: Is Ardern an Elene Ferrante character?
- 10:05 Rafia Zakaria: recentering feminism around women of colour
- 10:35 Renée: 92-year-old playwright on how reading changed her life
- 11:05 Luit Bieringa: director turns lens on Theo Schoon
- 11:40 Dr Matt Baker: DNA robots and tuskless elephants
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 6 November 2021
Saturday, 30 October 2021
- 8:10 Prof Idelber Avelar: is the end in sight for Bolsonaro?
- 8:35 Mikayla Cahill: the importance of visibility for intersex people
- 9:08 Joanna Lumley: A Queen For All Seasons
- 10:06 Maata Wharehoka: supporting different ways of dying
- 10:35 Jan Oliver Lucks: There Is No ‘I’ in Threesome
- 11:06 Playing Favourites with author Steve Braunias
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 30 October 2021
