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Joyce Carol Oates: Author of Blonde unsettles with new novel inspired by '70s serial killer
8:00 AM.An interview with Joyce Carol Oates. Read more Audio
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Playing Favourites with Dame Gaylene Preston
11:05 AM.Film director and producer Dame Gaylene Preston has been an inspirational and groundbreaking force in New Zealand culture for more than four decades. Dame Gaylene joins us to play some favourite… Read more Audio
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Saturday Morning Listener Feedback
11:00 AM.Saturday Morning Listener Feedback for November 12 Audio
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Prof Simon Chadwick: the movement to boycott the Football World Cup
10:35 AM.Calls for boycotts of the 2022 FIFA World Cup have been growing from football clubs, supporters and players alike. Host nation Qatar has been accused of using this month's event to gloss over its poor… Read more Audio
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Anke Richter: delving into the world of cults and control
10:05 AM.A chance meeting with a former resident of Bert Potter's Centrepoint community started journalist Anke Richter on what became a decade-long deep dive into groups that exert high levels of control on… Read more Audio
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Karl Johnstone: protecting and fostering at-risk whakairo
9:35 AM.Te Wananga Whakairo o Ruawhetu is a new carving school with a focus on aligning the aspirations of hapu and iwi across the country with its programme of learning. The new school, which opened its… Read more Audio
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Bill Callahan: 'I took a very long time to evolve into a respectable human being'
9:05 AM.Songwriter Bill Callahan – aka "the deep voice of American solitude" – writes melancholy country-inspired songs that often sound like poems set to music. He talks to Kim Hill about purpose… Read more Video, Audio
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Facial recognition expert claims Lord Lucan is alive
8:35 AM.Computer scientist Professor Hassan Ugail's AI photo analysis technology has positively identified an elderly man in Australia as Lord Lucan, a British aristocrat who vanished in 1974 the day after… Read more Audio
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Tariq Ali: Imran Khan and the future of Pakistan
8:10 AM.Last Thursday's failed attempt to assassinate former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has resulted in mass demonstrations throughout the country. The 70 year old former International cricketer… Read more Audio
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Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan on modern song
11:05 AM.Biographer Clinton Heylin is arguably the world's foremost Dylan authority, having written a dozen books on the Nobel Prize for Literature winner. Which makes Heylin the perfect Saturday Morning guest… Read more Audio
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Saturday Morning Listener Feedback
11:00 AM.Saturday Morning listener feedback Audio
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Kath Irvine: time for planting ahead of summer
10:35 AM.Planting time! Organic gardener Kath Irvine returns to share gardening tips and to answer your questions. Irvine counts pumpkins, squashes and beans as easy, beneficent summer crops to plant now. Read more Audio
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Paul Diamond: the remarkable fall of Charles Mackay
10:05 AM.In 1920 Whanganui residents were rocked by the news that their mayor had shot D'Arcy Cresswell, a young gay poet, who had been blackmailing him. Mackay was sentenced to hard labour and later left New… Read more Audio
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David Farrier: playing cat and mouse with Mister Organ
9:35 AM."Mr Organ is a black hole and I've fallen in," quips journalist and filmmaker David Farrier midway through his latest feature documentary, as he plays a bizarre cat and mouse game with the titular and… Read more Video, Audio
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Jacob Mchangama: the historical limits on free speech
9:05 AM.Earlier this week the government announced plans to introduce hate speech legislation. Such legislation has not always proven successful, as Danish lawyer Jacob Mchangama shows in his book Free… Read more Audio
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Rhiannon Mackie: Young NZer fighting for justice at COP
8:40 AM.More than 45,000 people, including world leaders and our own climate change minister, are descending on the resort town of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt for COP27, the annual UN climate conference, which… Read more Audio
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Katty Kay: is democracy on the ballot at US midterms?
8:10 AM.Americans go to the polls next week for their midterm elections. At stake is the balance of power within the House of Representatives and the Senate. But more fundamentally - as the first elections… Read more Audio
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Listener feedback for 29 October 2022
11:55 AM.Listener feedback from listeners to the Saturday Morning show. Audio
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Playing Favourites with Ebony Lamb
11:06 AM.Former lead singer of band Eb and Sparrow, Lamb's dreamy sound has been explained as somewhere between Nina Simone and Gillian Welch, with a glimmer of Catpower. She is about to commence a… Read more Video, Audio
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Danyl McLauchlan: proteins and the power of machine learning
10:40 AM.Protein scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week - is a computer's neural network conscious? Read more Audio
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Rijula Das: different sides of Kolkata’s red light district
10:08 AM.Sonagachi in Kolkata (Calcutta) is the largest red-light district in Asia, with an estimated 10,000 or more sex workers in residence. It's the setting for Rijula Das' debut novel Small Deaths, a… Read more Audio
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Lucien Rizos: the remarkable legacy of MP Gerald O’Brien
9:34 AM.What do you do with all those papers and possessions when someone close to you dies? In the case of Gerald O'Brien (1924-2017) - former Labour Party MP for Island Bay and local businessman - nephew… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Freya Daly Sadgrove: the different sides of a show pony
9:08 AM."Smashing theatre and literature together" is poet, producer and MC Freya Daly Sadgrove's mantra for Show Ponies, the hit revue that sees Aotearoa poets perform their work like pop stars: outrageous… Read more Video, Audio
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Darian Woods: inflation and bank profits on Planet Money
8:45 AM.New Zealand's inflation rate is at a 30 year high. Across the globe, central banks are scrambling to control it without tipping their economies, and indeed the world, into recession. New Zealander… Read more Audio
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Dame Valerie Adams: intimate film reveals our champion at her most vulnerable
8:13 AM.It’s a cliché to describe a life portrayed in film as a rollercoaster. Yet, while we know the highest highs of Dame Valerie Adams' career - five-time Olympian, two-time gold medallist, easily one of… Read more Video, Audio