Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:05 AM.Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her family on a three-year voyage around the world. Three years turned into a decade, with little formal schooling and many tensions between Heywood and… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.There's a saying in the Cook Islands that anything decided by the government was hashed out at Trader Jacks. The legendary bar and eatery, opened in 1986 by Jack Cooper, is known to virtually every… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.In a so-called "orca uprising" killer whales have been attacking boats in Iberian waters, off Spain and Portugal,and are possibly teaching others to do the same. But why, and how will it all end? Dr… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Education journalist Emily Hanford has spent years investigating why so many American kids are struggling to read. In the podcast series Sold a Story, she argues the early-intervention literacy… Read more Audio

7:05 PM.Featuring a chip-lipped duck, a structurally unsound tip truck, and the iconic train cake on the cover, a book of 108 themed cakes has been sparking sugary fantasies for three generations of kids. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.The gentle, honest books of American writer Judy Blume are well-loved by many people who grew up in the '70s and '80s. Blume, now 85, runs a non-profit bookshop with her husband George Cooper in Key… Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.Since the 2020 lockdown the way we view each other from afar has changed dramatically thanks to technology. FacingTime: Portraits of Geoff by Euan Macleod at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery is a… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:35 AM.As te reo becomes widespread, does Maori learning for Maori need to be prioritised? That's one of many pesky questions posed in the first episode of new Spinoff web series 2 Cents 2 Much. Answering… Read more Video, Audio

9:05 AM.In their new book The Big Myth, Professor Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway document the rise of "market fundamentalism" over the 20th century, outlining Big Business's push to equate the free market… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Earlier this month Australia's most decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith lost his defamation case against three newspapers who reported he had murdered civilians in Afghanistan. While not a criminal… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Author and art writer Megan Dunn joins Kim to talk about the pros and cons of having prizes for art. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.It's a myth that great art must come from pain, says American musician Lucinda Williams, but the "certain amount of suffering" she's lived through does get put to use. "When I'm writing I can just dip… Read more Video, Audio

10:47 AM.There's strong hope this winter that the ice will be right for the Baxter Cup, New Zealand's oldest sporting trophy. The cup is for outdoor curling, yet bonspiels (curling tournaments) are… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:08 AM.Are humans really the smartest animal? Animal cognition expert Dr Justin Gregg thinks maybe not. In his new book If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal, he examines our exceptional brain power and finds it… Read more Audio

9:28 AM.Last month it was reported that children in the UK had been born using mitochondrial donation, eight years after the technique was regulated. The IVF procedure uses genetic material from a mother and… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Best-selling Latin American author Isabel Allende's new book The Wind Knows My Name reveals the brutal reality and lasting trauma caused by forced immigration and family separation. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Former basketball player and chef Jenny Nguyen became increasingly frustrated by the lack of women's sports playing at the bars she hung out in. So, in 2022 she used her life savings to open the… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Matt Baker returns for a chat about some of the latest science news. This week: why a single shot of gene therapy may replace surgical sterilisation for cats. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.American musician Kevin Morby pays tribute to the power of family photo albums in his 2022 song 'This Is A Photograph'. Now he's inviting others to upload their own nostalgic take on the song to the… Read more Video, Audio

10:42 AM.Mental illness may seem an unlikely subject for a musical, but in the US Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal has won not only Tony Awards but a Pulitzer Prize. Director of its Christchurch… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.This month Kiwa Hammond has been part of an Aotearoa contingent in Germany to retrieve skeletal remains of karapuna, Ta Imi Moriori ancestors of Rekohu (the Chatham Islands) and Maori tipuna from… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.It's generally true that the ability to get good sleep declines as we get older, says world-leading chronobiologist Philippa Gander. One of the best-known ways to increase the amount of slow-wave… Read more Audio