Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:35 AM.The effects of psilocybin - the active compound in magic mushrooms - have been illuminated in a new Washington University School of Medicine study. For the study, seven people were given doses of the… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Author Catherine Taylor was born in Waikato but grew up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. She is a book critic and features writer for British and Irish newspapers. Last week Catherine was announced the… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Peanut farming has not traditionally been done in New Zealand, but that might be about to change. A three-year trial taking place in Northland is already yielding promising results and some of the… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Consultation on the design of a 'digital cash' system for New Zealand closed last week. The Reserve Bank is exploring the new type of currency that would be used in addition to the cash we spend today… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.You may know Claire Mabey as the founder of the Verb Wellington Festival, perhaps as co-curator of the Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts writers programme, or as a book reviewer. Now she's adding… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.After the sudden death of a close friend at age 17, Tom Turcich resolved to make the most of life. He began his epic journey to circumnavigate the globe on foot. Four months into the trip he met his… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Award-winning New Zealand author Shilo Kino has written a second novel - another debut of sorts. The Porangi Boy won the young Adult Fiction Award at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Talking to your children about sex is challenging enough, but how do you tackle the topic of porn? Melody Thomas, host of award-winning podcast The Good Sex Project says that while it's a tricky… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Engineered stone is a popular choice for benchtops in modern kitchens - it's cheaper and less porous than marble and more hard wearing than formica. However its production creates tiny dust particles… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Dr Jo Burzynska has her nose in a book, literally. The wine writer, sound artist and multisensory researcher is turning her attention to the smell of books. She's sniffing out stories, from the scent… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.The release of the final report from the Abuse in Care inquiry on Wednesday was an important day for Keith Wiffin, but not the end of his 22 year fight for justice. He was a member of the survivors'… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris is under way. James Bond upped the ante in London, and the 2024 Olympic Games is introducing Parisian culture to the world in a similarly ambitious and spectacular… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Catherine Russell is UNICEF's first Executive Director to visit the Pacific. Before she took over the top job at UNICEF, Catherine held senior positions in the White House under presidents Biden and… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Lynfield-based Larry Killip describes himself as "possibly the most famous person that you have never heard of". With a musical career stretching back to the mid-60s, Killip's first band The Zarks was… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.The case of billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein shocked and captured the attention of the world. Ghislaine Maxwell is the British socialite jailed for procuring young girls for Epstein. Her trial… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Societies have rules to stop them from descending into chaos - at least that's what Constitutional scholar Cindy Skach used to believe. Her career was spent advising governments and writing… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad, studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, documenting it in her book The Bookseller of Kabul. Twenty years later, with the… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.New Zealand Herald business editor-at-large Liam Dann says interest rates are picked to fall, but before then small and medium businesses will continue to feel the pinch. Read more Audio

9:25 AM.British writer, comedian and football fan Kevin Day joins Colin to talk about the reaction in England of football not coming home. Almost thirty years ago the song Three Lions took off. Its refrain… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Renowned space environmentalist and astrodynamicist specialising in space object detection and identification, Dr Moriba Jah believes it's only a matter of time before someone is killed by falling… Read more Audio