All episodes
Saturday, 26 September 2020
- 8:10 A volatile week in the US: April Ryan
- 8:40 First Nations' taxman Manny Jules
- 9:10 Whakapapa through portraiture: Taaniko Nordstrom
- 9:30 Priming the primary sector: Rachel Taulelei
- 10:30 Arts Laureate Ariana Tikao: the power of pūoro
- 11:35 NZ-born officer Matiu Ratana fatally shot in England
- 11:40 Craig Silvey: "Jasper Jones" author on his new book "Honeybee"
- 4:10 Life inside the NBA Bubble: Ben Golliver
- 5:05 Victor Steffensen: How burning could heal Australia
Saturday, 19 September 2020
- 8:13 How better building design can fight the spread of Covid-19
- 9:07 Representing the reprehensible: Australian criminal lawyer Andrew Boe
- 9:37 Protest and professional sport: Douglas Hartmann
- 10:07 Patrick Skene: Pacific and Maori influences on the NRL
- 11:06 Flying with swans: Conservationist Sacha Dench
- 11:46 A silver bullet against bacteria? nanotech anti-microbial coatings
- 4:31 Death, mana and Peter Ellis: lawyer Natalie Coates
- 5:40 Revitalising te reo a three-generation process: Prof Rawinia Higgins
Saturday, 12 September 2020
- 9:35 The voice of Criminal: podcaster Phoebe Judge
- 10:08 Merlin Sheldrake: the mind-bending majesty of the fungal kingdom
- 11:06 Barbara Sumner: opening up about the pain of 'closed' adoption
- 11:35 Dame Anne Salmond: artefacts at the heart of history
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning for 4 September 2020
- 2:46 The urgent need for mass climate change action: Jane Fonda
- 4:35 Chris Smith: Covid-19 vaccine trial pause shows it's no 'rush job'
- 5:09 Resurrecting North & South magazine: Rachel Morris
Saturday, 5 September 2020
- 8:10 Caitlin Moran: More Than A Woman
- 9:07 Trauma Cleaner Sandra Pankhurst
- 9:45 Boosting crops using UV light: Jason Wargent
- 10:07 Troy Kingi goes on a musical ghost hunt
- 11:06 Chris Fitch on the wonderful places beneath us
- 11:25 The shared genetics of cancer and placenta growth
- 11:40 Curator Mary Kisler: tiny art inspired by Frances Hodgkins
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 4 September 2020
Saturday, 29 August 2020
- 8:30 David R Williams: The health impacts of racism
- 9:05 Cancer, evolution and genetics: Kat Arney
- 10:30 Ghazaleh Golbakhsh: The Girl from Revolution Road
- 11:05 Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh plays favourites
- 11:05 Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh plays favourites PODCAST
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback for 29 August 2020
- 5:05 Jail saved me from being a 'drop-out no-hoper' - Greg Newbold
- 5:10 Geneticist James Hadfield: Mapping and tracking Covid-19 in NZ
Saturday, 22 August 2020
- 8:43 Virologist Dr Chris Smith: latest Covid-19 science
- 9:08 Sara Seager: searching for planets beyond our solar system
- 9:45 The Unraveling of America: Wade Davis
- 10:06 Playing favourites with XL Recordings' boss Richard Russell
- 11:05 "Love on the Spectrum" dating coach Jodi Rodgers
- 11:43 Doug Wilson: Ageism: Does it matter?
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 21 August 2020
- 5:10 Buying a media business for $1: Stuff's Sinead Boucher
Saturday, 15 August 2020
- 8:10 Health Minister Chris Hipkins
- 8:15 Auckland Mayor Phil Goff relieved
- 8:20 Auckland business owners on Level 3 extension
- 8:25 President of Auckland Secondary Principals Association
- 8:30 Epidemiologist Sir David Skegg - how to avoid future lockdowns
- 8:41 ANZ New Zealand chief economist Sharon Zollner
- 8:50 Mangere Budgeting Services Trust chief Executive Darryl Evans
- 8:55 Limits continue for weddings, funerals and tangihanga in AK
- 8:57 How is Tokoroa doing?
- 8:58 Crusaders vs Blues Super Rugby match cancelled
- 9:07 Choreographer Twyla Tharp
- 9:40 Brannavan Gnanalingam: new novel tackles toxic masculinity
- 10:06 Tom Scott: In pursuit of the real Charles Upham
- 10:35 Shining a light on child labour: Simon Lister
- 11:06 Truth-finding using public information
- 11:47 Poet Kate Camp: How to Be Happy Though Human
- 11:55 Listener Feedback 15 August 2020
Saturday, 8 August 2020
- 8:10 TikTok: is time up for the app in the US?
- 8:30 Concern for merchant sailors stranded in NZ waters
- 9:05 Paint-maker David Coles: the colourful history of pigments
- 10:05 Tim Saunders: This Farming Life
- 11:05 Dixon Chibanda on his revolutionary mental health intervention
- 11:40 Portraits of pregnancy: Mary Kisler
- 11:59 Listener feedback for 8 August 2020
- 4:40 Ross and Janette Campbell: escape from Owlcatraz
Saturday, 1 August 2020
- 8:12 Should we be worried about the rise of QAnon?
- 8:44 Hong Kong democracy activist in exile: Nathan Law
- 9:05 Director Oliver Stone on his rocky road to "Platoon"
- 10:05 Culum Brown: Fish are way smarter than you think
- 10:35 Lauren Greenfield on her revealing portrait of Imelda Marcos
- 11:05 Pablo Larraín: Chilean director on Ema
- 11:45 Kate's Klassics: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 1 August 2020
Saturday, 25 July 2020
- 8:41 Sophie Leguil: More than Weeds
- 9:06 Samantha Power: top US diplomat's life and career
- 10:06 "Athlete A" - exposing the dark side of top level gymnastics
- 10:40 Playing rugby with pride - Eammon Ashton-Atkinson
- 3:12 New ventilator 'very simple and cheap to make' - NZ-born designer Jason Bates
- 4:30 Saudi's first female feature film director: Haifaa al-Mansour
- 5:07 Emma Espiner: Witnessing a health system that fails Māori
Saturday, 18 July 2020
- 8:10 Brazil's coronavirus catastrophe 'little flu' kills 75,000
- 9:05 "Into The Wild" author Jon Krakauer on adventure and risk
- 10:05 Suicide and survival: doco director Leanne Pooley
- 10:35 Justin Kurzel:True History of the Kelly Gang
- 11:05 NZer working to protect Lebanon's migrant maids
- 11:40 Doug Wilson: protecting our elderly if Covid-19 returns to NZ
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday Morning 18 July 2020
- 5:30 Alice Procter: getting real about 'colonial loot' in museums
Saturday, 11 July 2020
- 9:35 Celebrating trans experiences: Rurangi director Max Currie
- 10:05 Novelist David Mitchell on his new book Utopia Avenue
- 10:35 Kathy Sullivan: from outer space to deep under the sea
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Dennis O'Brien from Slow Boat Records
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday 11th July
- 3:10 Anand Giridharadas: Beware of billionaire 'do-gooders'
- 5:05 The unknowns behind a Covid-19 vaccine: 'It's an unwritten book' - Dr Chris Smith
Saturday, 4 July 2020
- 8:10 Tracking down the Golden State Killer: Paige St John
- 8:30 Epidemiologist Adam Kucharski: the rules of contagion
- 9:05 Before Everest: exploring Hillary's rocky relationship with Earle Riddiford
- 9:35 New Arts Icon Sandy Adsett
- 10:05 The history and mystery of the brain: Matthew Cobb
- 11:00 Underwater sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor
- 11:40 Wrap artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- 12:00 Listener Feedback from Saturday July 4
Saturday, 27 June 2020
- 8:10 Vincent Gaffney: Stonehenge's hidden landscapes
- 8:30 Mark O'Connell: Notes From An Apocalypse
- 9:05 Jess Hill: power, control and domestic abuse
- 10:05 Dr Alexy Karenowska: the smell of history
- 11:05 Roger Michel: Waka versus Anglo-Saxon longboat
- 11:40 Indigenous film-maker Bird Runningwater
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday 27th June
- 4:40 Aotearoa needs to debate colonisation, racism - new commissioner
- 5:20 Great to meet ewe: Introducing sheep via Zoom to fans worldwide
Saturday, 20 June 2020
- 8:30 Lotta Dann: how the alcohol industry targets women
- 9:05 Jesca Hoop: American-born singer/songwriter
- 9:40 Andrew Wilson: what can you do with the fifth state of matter?
- 10:05 C.K. Stead on his second memoir You Have a Lot to Lose
- 10:40 Peter McComb: studying the giant waves of the Southern Ocean
- 11:05 Tiffany Field: the power of touch in a socially distant world
- 11:40 Human Hand: Fiona Amundsen and Tim Corballis
- 11:59 Saturday Morning Feedback
- 3:12 How police reform changed one of US’s most violent cities
Saturday, 13 June 2020
- 8:12 Will US protests prompt NZ police reform?
- 8:35 Historian Charlotte Lydia Riley: Is it OK to topple statues?
- 9:07 Economist Robert Frank: The positive power of social pressure
- 9:36 Jesse Eisenberg on playing mime artist Marceau in "Resistance"
- 10:06 Pip Adam on her new novel "Nothing to See"
- 10:36 Sophie Ballagh: adventuring through Antarctica
- 11:06 Caroline Criado Perez: Invisible Women
- 11:46 Kate's Klassics: Defoe's "A Journal of The Plague Year"
Saturday, 6 June 2020
- 8:10 How does cannabis use affect New Zealanders' health?
- 8:30 Chris Smith: Covid-19 Q and A
- 9:05 Dr. Kari Nadeau: fighting to end food allergies
- 9:30 Ruth Shaw - Manapouri's "Two Wee Bookshops"
- 10:05 Imagining decolonisation in Aotearoa
- 10:30 Former Vogue UK editor Alexandra Shulman on why clothes matter
- 11:00 Playing Favourites with Tamatha Paul
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Tamatha Paul (Podcast version)
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
Saturday, 30 May 2020
- 8:10 Evan Osnos - US/ China relationship dangerously unstable
- 8:30 Chris Smith - Covid-19 - testing and treatment
- 9:05 Director Kitty Green on her new film, The Assistant
- 9:40 Architect Judi Keith-Brown: the future of NZ homes
- 10:40 Mary Kisler: artists' gardens
- 11:05 Pete Paphides: playing favourites
- 11:59 Listener Feedback for Saturday 30th May
- 4:55 Professor Elizabeth Loftus: how memory is made
Saturday, 23 May 2020
- 8:00 Listener Feedback for 23 May
- 8:10 Robert Fisk: reporting from the frontline
- 9:45 Wendy McCulloch: Kiwi vet helping New York pets
- 10:05 Virologist Dr Chris Smith: Covid-19 update
- 10:35 Ian Wedde on his new novel "The Reed Warbler"
- 11:05 Photographer Judith Crispin: exposing life and death
- 11:35 Doug Wilson: how older people are feeling about the pandemic
- 1:05 'The Wire' creator David Simon: 'America finds itself in a very ugly place'
Saturday, 16 May 2020
- 8:10 Kashmir Hill - Police use of software Clearview AI
- 9:06 Virologist Chris Smith answers Covid-19 questions
- 9:40 Shaun Bythell: Scotland's biggest second hand bookshop
- 10:08 In defence of bats: disease ecologist Jonathan Epstein
- 10:40 Keke Brown: disability as artistry
- 11:06 Barbara Ewing on her coming of age memoir
- 11:45 Peter Warner: 'Lord of The Flies' rescuer
- 3:00 Toby Ord - What is the greatest threat to humanity?
Saturday, 9 May 2020
- 8:00 Listener Feedback for Saturday 9 May
- 8:10 Donald McNeil: US facing a dystopian Covid future
- 8:35 Anil Seth: exploring the complexities of consciousness
- 9:05 Chesa Boudin - progressive DA and 'de-carceration' advocate
- 9:30 John Grant: US singer's Iceland life
- 10:05 Maria Ressa: Filipino journalist vs Rodrigo Duterte
- 11:05 Vanessa Beavis: How NZ hospitals prepared for Covid-19
- 11:35 Julie Leask: How to talk to anti-vaxxers
Saturday, 2 May 2020
- 8:12 Anushri Anandaraja: health workers’ champion in NYC
- 8:30 Adam Rutherford: How To Argue With A Racist
- 9:05 Rory Truell: social work through the pandemic
- 9:25 Dr Chris Smith: Sustained immune response 'likely'
- 10:05 Deborah Feldman: inspiring Unorthodox
- 11:05 Climate scientist Andrea Dutton
- 11:45 Graham Swift: Booker prize winner's latest novel
Saturday, 25 April 2020
- 8:12 Dr Chris Smith: virologist on latest Covid-19 science
- 8:43 Lachlan Paterson & Angela Wanhalla: Maori Home Front
- 9:07 Christina Lamb: bearing witness to war crimes against women
- 10:06 John Darnielle: Mountain Goats' new lockdown album
- 10:42 Sam Forbes: baking bread, breaking bread
Saturday, 18 April 2020
- 8:10 Katy Watson: Brazil and coronavirus
- 8:30 Philippe Sands: The Ratline
- 9:05 Ann Patchett: The Dutch House author
- 9:35 Chris Smith: Virologist on latest Covid-19 science
- 10:10 Peter de Jager: overcoming the Y2K crisis
- 10:35 Andrew Solomon: depression, anxiety and the virus
- 11:05 Johanna Knox: lockdown food foraging
- 11:25 Australian working on Singapore’s Covid-19 offensive
- 11:45 Craig Potton: conservationist and publisher’s lockdown life
Saturday, 11 April 2020
- 8:15 Amy Goldstein: COVID-19 in the Land of the Free
- 8:35 Colin Thubron: travel writing off the beaten track
- 9:10 Chris Smith: COVID-19 science
- 9:30 Whaitiri Poutawa: The "Maori Thor" bringing kapa haka online
- 10:10 Ken Burns: doco director's epic histories
- 11:10 Trent Dalton: Tales from the Bunker
- 11:30 Tangaroa Walker: dairy farming during lockdown
- 11:40 Gregory O'Brien: poetry in isolation