Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:35 AM.In 1979, inspired by the countercultural movement sweeping the country, teenager Olive Jones embraced rural communal living. By the age of twenty-one she was one of the founders of the Graham Downs… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Pathologist professor Richard Scolyer's melanoma research is credited with saving tens of thousands of lives, but now he's in a race to save his own. Read more Audio

11:01 AM.Kerry Ann Lee is a collage artist, scholar, DJ, and fanzine maker whose work explores Cantonese urban settlement and cultural collisions. A third-generation Chinese New Zealander, Lee's parents ran… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.Nelson designer Gill Saunders is the Supreme Winner at the 2023 World of WearableArt™ show for her garment Earthling. It's Saunders' second Supreme WOW award, and her seventh award win in the show… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Internationally-acclaimed former principal dancer and artistic director of The Australian Ballet, David McAllister recently completed his tenure as acting artistic director of the Royal New Zealand… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.It won't be too long before electronic vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is helping to treat inflammatory illness, says bioelectronic medicine specialist Kevin Tracey. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Nelson-based author and entrepreneur Peter Butler's fourth book is Night Tribe, a young adult novel set in the Kahurangi National Park. Peter's first job in Golden Bay was working on the Heaphy Track… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.What makes a diva? In her one-woman show DIVAS, Olivier-nominated Australian singer Bernadette Robinson brings to life Maria Callas, Edith Piaf, Judy Garland, also Shirley Bassey, Miley Cyrus and Amy… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Long-time bush man, lawyer and historian Ron Crosby's new book Te Kooti's Last Foray re-tells a forgotten period of Te Urewera history. With the help of recently discovered diaries and by tramping the… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Long or Strong - Get Gone! - most of us know this advice on when to evacuate due to tsunami risk following an earthquake, but if it happened would we actually act? Surveys suggest around a third of… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.UK counter-extremism expert Julia Ebner thinks we are at the beginning of a digital dark age. QAnon proponents run for U.S. Congress, neo-fascists win elections in Europe, and celebrity influencers… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.A week after their 27-13 defeat in the opening Rugby World Cup game against France, the All Blacks played Namibia.

RNZ Sports commentator Nathan Rarere checks in after the final whistle at the… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Most remembered for her failure to secure a Brexit deal, Theresa May was British Prime Minister between 2016 and 2019 and the longest-serving Home Secretary in over a century. A Remainer herself, her… Read more Video, Audio

11:40 AM.Spring has well and truely sprung, and it's time to get busy in the garden. Growing your own seedlings is satisfying and a great way to save some money. Nomad gardener and The Edible Backyard author… Read more Audio

11:00 AM.Earlier this week Ruby Franke, who shared parenting advice and the day to day lives of her six kids via a popular YouTube channel was charged with child abuse. It's an extreme example of the harm… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Kiwi protein biochemist and tissue engineer Dr Laura Domigan is an international leader in the emerging industry of cultivated meat. Her work tackles some of the planet's major social and… Read more Audio

10:00 AM.New Zealanders are losing millions of dollars each year to scammers impersonating banks, tech support, and government departments. The exact cost is not known, as embarrassed victims often don't… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.29-13

The Telegraph's award-winning Chief Rugby Union Correspondent Gavin Mairs, from the Stade de France, on how the game played out.

Mairs has nine world cups under his belt, covering every Rugby… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.American writer Richard Ford talks to Kim Hill about dyslexia, death, writing and Be Mine - the final book in his award-winning Frank Bascombe series. Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Elton John's musical other half, the famously private man behind many millions of record sales and countless hits, lyricist Bernie Taupin opens up about his life in a new memoir. In Scattershot: Life… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Arguably an unmatched Rugby World Cup opener, the All Blacks are taking on arch-rivals and hosts France, at the Stade de France in Paris. RNZ sports correspondent Nathan Rarere checks in at half time.

10:05 AM.The science-fiction fantasy of machine consciousness seems to be moving towards reality. But what would it mean for humans if artificial intelligence technology became conscious? And how would we… Read more Audio