Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:38 AM.Rebecca Priestley's new memoir End Times moves between recollections of teen punk nihilism and a flirtation with born again Christianity, to a modern day climate anxiety-fuelled South Island road… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.It took Mexican scholar, novelist, and poet Cristina Rivera Garza 30 years to be able to write about what happened to her younger sister. Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive boyfriend in… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.This month marks 150 years of business for a Wairarapa store that's been in the hands of one family for four generations. Martinborough's Pain and Kershaw traces its origins to the late 19th century… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.One of the UK's foundational black music producers Barbados-born Dennis Bovell was an instigator of the slow-reggae love song genre Lovers Rock, producing songs such as Janet Kaye's 1979 hit Silly… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.The BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet is reporting in Southern Isreal, close to the Gaza-Israeli border in Ashkelon, which is coming under fire from Hamas. Doucet says the Israel… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Urbina's latest investigations into the Chinese distant-water fishing fleet has uncovered human rights and labour abuses. The Chinese foreign fishing fleet is an… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Civilians are fleeing northern Gaza in anticipation of an Israeli ground offensive, following retaliatory air strikes. Palestinian militant group Hamas launched surprise attacks an Israel on Saturday… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Frustrated by the lack of decent roles for middle-aged women, actor Robyn Malcolm and veteran screenwriter Dianne Taylor decided to do something about it. The pair put their heads together to create… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.New Zealand's premier national choir is celebrating its 25th anniversary by embarking on a national tour this month. The Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir will be reimagining Mozart with a new… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Pistachio nuts have become a popular snack around the world but a new documentary about where they come from and how they're farmed might make pistachio lovers think again before shelling their next… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Professor Jochen Mannhart is a physicist whose scientific work could prove to be a conservation game changer. Every year tens of thousands of African elephants continue to be hunted down and killed by… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.For over 40 years, twin sisters Lynda and Jools Topp have performed as the joyfully anarchic and comedic country music duo The Topp Twins. Now 65, Dames Jools and Lynda Topp speak to Kim Hill about… Read more Video, Audio

8:10 AM.US writer Kim Stanley Robinson spends a lot of time imagining the future. The author of more than 20 novels, including his best-selling The Mars Trilogy, he's considered one of the greatest writers of… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Dutch art detective Arthur Brand is known as 'the Indiana Jones of the art world', having spent decades tracking down stolen masterpieces, including Picassos, Van Goghs and missing artifacts such as… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:35 AM.Traditional Irish band Gráda are reforming and returning to tour New Zealand in October. Two members of the band, Gerry Paul and Andrew Laking are Kiwis. Gráda is known for its energy on stage… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.In her non-fiction writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan has explored solutions for homelessness in America. Her year-long reporting on street… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Genetics at the University of Sydney, Benjamin Oldroyd is an experimental scientist who has published more than three hundred scientific papers, mostly on honey bees… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.The All Blacks play Italy in a game they can't afford to lose in Lyon. RNZ sports aficionado Nathan Rarere checks in at half time with how the All Blacks are performing with a full strength team in a… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.In his new novel Lola in The Mirror, Trent Dalton brings to life the experience of homelessness in his usual compelling and strangely uplifting style. The Australian writer talks to Kim Hill about… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.After years of exploring the function of dreams, sleep scientist Mark Blagrove suspects human connection may be at the heart of our brain's unconscious storytelling. "Humans may have evolved to have… Read more Video, Audio

3:40 PM.Cultural omen of darkness, reservoir of deadly viruses - bats don't have the best reputation. But they do have some impressive and potentially helpful biological quirks, including the ability to… Read more Audio