Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:10 AM.Fighting between Sudan's military and the Rapid Support Forces continued Friday, hours into a second 72 hour ceasefire say eyewitnesses. The situation across Sudan has deteriorated, with shortages of… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Listener Feedback for 22 April 2023. Audio

11:45 AM.Nomad gardener and The Edible Backyard author Kath Irvine is reporting in from a campground in Otepoti where she's been attending the Wild Dunedin New Zealand Festival of Nature. Read more Audio

11:08 AM.Alzheimer's disease is a devastating degenerative disorder that slowly destroys memory and eventually the ability to carry out the most basic tasks. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Jason Te Mete (Ngati Ranginui, Ngai Te Rangi) has been recovering from necrotising fasciitis, a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection that left him doubtful he could ever return to the stage. . Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Rebecca Struthers was just 17 when she set out on her path to become one of Britain's leading watchmakers. An active campaigner in the preservation of endangered heritage skills, Struthers family-run… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.When an autistic and a non-autistic person have a social interaction, there's an assumption that if non-autistic people are doing it "right" autistic people must be doing it "wrong," says research… Read more Video, Audio

8:20 AM.New Zealand born Anthony McCarten is arguably the world's best known biopic screenwriter and playwright Past subjects have included Whitney Houston, Edison, Churchill and the band Queen, and this year… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.This morning the Australian government has announced a direct pathway to citizenship for New Zealanders. The announcement comes just ahead of ANZAC Day. We last spoke to ABC chief political… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Last week we spoke to Michele Leggott about her experiences with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. What we didn't get to talk about was the book and research work Leggott has been working on over this time: her… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.You love their work, but are seriously disturbed by what you've learnt about the person - can you separate an artist's work from their personal life? It's a question explored by New York Times writer… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.In 2015, three British school girls went missing from their London homes, and headed to Syria to join Islamic State. For years their fate was unknown, but after the collapse of the IS caliphate, one… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.This week a celebration was held to mark 100 days until the FIFA Women's World Football Cup kicks off across New Zealand and Australia. If this was the Men's World Cup, would there be more fuss… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Since controversially mocking vegans in 2018, British food critic William Sitwell has been "nicer" to people with a plant-based diet. The long-term MasterChef judge tells Kim Hill about his own food… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.A shadowy Russian private military company has been increasingly making its presence felt in Africa. The Wagner Group, often dubbed Putin's private army, has been involved in conflicts in Libya… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Almost every Friday and Saturday night Nanny Pura Whale puts on her Maori Warden uniform and heads out into the night to watch over the shops and youth of Taihape. It's something the 79 year old has… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week he delves into the drivers of voting behaviour. Political scientists suggest there are… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Taiwan's pivotal location off the China coast and between Northeast and Southeast Asia has served a variety of strategic purposes for regional powers both now and historically. It's proved to be as… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.American writer Daniel Lavery says the idea that he'd enjoy living as a male was the biggest motivation for a gender transition in his early 30s. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Harvard Medical School Associate Professor Dr Fatima Cody Stanford has spent much of her career pushing for changes in the way the medical establishment thinks about and treats obesity. Dr Stanford… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Michele Leggott's latest book of poetry, Face to the Sky, explores her encounter with 19th-century New Zealand botanical artist Emily Cumming Harris. But there's more to this story - Michele was… Read more Audio

8:36 AM.Meg Smaker's 2022 documentary film about a de-radicalisation centre triggered such a backlash around the time of its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival that it was effectively blacklisted. But… Read more Audio