Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:51 AM.The country's top 24 Scrabble players are competing this Easter weekend to find New Zealand's 41st Scrabble Masters Champion. Susie speaks to Chris Tallman - who is hoping to take the crown. Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Inflation is on the up. New Zealand Herald business editor-at-large Liam Dann is with Mihi to unpack what that means.  Read more Audio

11:06 AM.The Very Reverend Katie Lawrence is the first woman to serve as Dean of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul in New Zealand. She talks to Susie about her calling and her prior career as a dancer.  Read more Video, Audio

10:20 AM.She's starred in Succession and Downton Abbey but Harriet Walter is also one of the world's most accomplished Shakespearean actors. She talks to Susie about her new book which imagines what, with more… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Romeo and Juliet is widely considered the greatest love story ever told, but new musical & Juliet imagines what would happen if she got a second chance at life. Kiwi actor Hayden Tee stars and speaks… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.In 2012, our excentric give way rule which had allowed right-turning traffic at intersections was abolished. Now the subject of a musical comedy, writer Steven Page and show producer Dave Armstrong… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Stephen Wainwright is finishing at Creative New Zealand having led the country's only national arts funding agency through multiple governments, an earthquake, and a pandemic. He talks to Mihi about… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Abdulzarak Gurnah's new novel Theft is his first since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. He talks to Susie Ferguson about this coming-of-age story and the impact of his win.  Read more Audio

8:10 AM.If you were to turn 100 years old this year, what would you make of the world today? Dr Thomas Perls is founder of the world's largest study of centenarians. He shares what he's learned about living a… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Since World War I, poppies have been a symbol of remembrance as they flourished in the soil churned up by the fighting and shelling on the Western Front. Soala Wilson has been busy organising the… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.On the eve of ANZAC Day, Art of Remembrance 2025 will celebrate the role of nurses in both military and civilian service. Georgina Greville, a senior nurse at Middlemore Hospital, shares her family's… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.Times are tough for many families, 1 in 4 Kiwi-kids live in households where food runs out. Angela Calver, CEO of the charity, Kiwi Harvest, explains to Mihi how just $5 can provide a full day's worth… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.It's the time of year to start thinking about a big garden clean up, building a compost heap and looking ahead to winter planting. Our gardening expert Hannah Zwartz answers listener questions. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Thousands of performers, from more than forty countries have descended on Auckland - to compete in the inaugural World Dance Crew Championship over the next six days.  Read more Audio

11:05 AM.An Auckland-based gynaecologist is calling for an improvement in the diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis in NZ.  Read more Audio

10:33 AM.Adolescence is the TV series that everyone can't stop talking about. It follows a British family as their world turns upside down when 13-year-old Jamie is arrested for murdering a schoolmate.  Read more Audio

10:05 AM.When Dr Jo Prendergast was diagnosed with breast cancer, she decided the best thing to do was to write an 80,000 word manuscript about her experience, and create a comedy show out of it.  Read more Audio

9:35 AM.A surprise phone call lead award-winning playwright, the most performed of his generation, Ken Ludwig into the world of murder mysteries, becoming the chosen playwright for the Agatha Christie… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.After a ten-year hiatus, activist and award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has released a new novel Dream Count. Set across America and Nigeria, it tells of four women linked by friendship… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Last month former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested by the International Criminal Court over alleged crimes against humanity during his brutal war on drugs.  Read more Audio