Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:10 AM.Auckland nurse Doron Semu is using a traditional Sāmoan art form to bring together LGBTQ+ Pasifika youth. In his mid-20s, feeling disconnected from his Sāmoan heritage, Doron learnt how to make the… Read more Video, Audio

8:40 AM.Ocham winner Chidgey has a new novel Pet, set in New Zealand in 1984 and 2014, which follows a 'teacher's pet', wrestling with her admiration for that teacher. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.In the early 1980s journalist Russell Brown jumped ship from his boring newsroom job to become deputy editor of Rip It Up, a music magazine capturing and feeding a thriving urban culture Brown was… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Known for his contemporary takes on Shakespeare, Aotearoa theatre director and scholar David Lawrence believes the bard's intentions have been long compromised by being organised into the genres of… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.The Yanomami people of the Amazon rainforest are one of the last Indigenous groups living as hunter-gatherers and small-scale farmers. They also have the most diverse gut microbiome of any community… Read more Audio

9:42 AM.From performing on street corners in India to the National Theatre in London, comedian, actor, writer, and blues singer Sameena Zehra has spent her life telling stories and, in her own words, holding… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Aotearoa's fungi are fascinating, freaky and fantastical according to Otautahi based forager and food writer Liv Sisson. We have 22,000 species, including one that hunts bugs, a lichen named after… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.Mstyslav Chernov is part of a small team of Associated Press Ukrainian journalists who this week won a Pulitzer Prize for their fearless reporting from Mariupol last year. For nearly three weeks they… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Listener Feedback for 6 May 2023. Audio

11:06 AM.From Te Atiawa, Liz Mellish has had a seminal influence on the visibility and rights of mana whenua and Maori heritage in contemporary Te-Whanganui-a-Tara. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Author and art writer Megan Dunn joins Kim to talk about two current shows with very different approaches to displaying public art collections. Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.In his new book Pathogenesis Dr Jonathan Kennedy offers a radical new frame to view human history. He argues that infectious diseases have been a decisive force in shaping humanity, from the… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.This weekend live American late-night shows - The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live plus those hosted by Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers - go off-air and turn to repeats… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Award-winning writer Dr Emma Espiner (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou) talks to Kim Hill about her unconventional upbringing, ditching her recruitment job for med school and how New Zealand can improve… Read more Audio

8:36 AM.Dr George Gross, a visiting research fellow at King's College London and co-founder of the British Coronations Project, says the crowning of William the Conqueror in 1066 set the tone for future… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to head to central London this weekend to celebrate King Charles's Coronation. We catch up with the BBC World Service's UK Political Correspondent Rob… Read more Audio

11:37 AM.The world has recently conspired against Australian based New Zealander Kerryn Fields introducing her music to Aotearoa, with disasters as a backdrop. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Reflecting on what makes a place home, Alie Benge's collection of essays Ithaca takes us to wildly different places from her past: from Ethiopia as a child to time spent in the Australian Army and… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.In Australian author and broadcaster Richard Fidler's The Book of Roads and Kingdoms he delves into the life of medieval wanderers who travelled to the outer edges of the known world during Islam's… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Romantic comedy or rom-com, is often used as shorthand for something shallow and lacking in substance, but Minneapolis author Curtis Sittenfeld loves them. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.NASA's new head scientist, Dr Nicola Fox, is on a mission to uncover the mysteries of the Universe and has an over eight billion dollar budget to do it. Read more Audio

The average New Zealand rubbish bin is half-full of food scraps. Although we hear a bit about megatonnes of food waste rotting in landfills being a massive problem, it is also a missed… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.As the final series of HBO's hit drama Succession goes to air, the Murdoch media empire that inspired the show is dealing with its own dramas. Read more Audio