Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:35 AM.Sydney-based New Zealander Dr Matt Baker returns for a chat about some of the latest science news. This week: how bacteria can fix their own flagellar motors when times get tough, and how feasible is… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Filipino-American journalist and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa could still face life in prison despite being cleared of tax evasion charges in the Philippines in January. The CEO and… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.The solidarity Ukrainians are showing each other in the wake of Russia's attack has made for a kinder society, says Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov. Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Roger Lentle can tell a lot from a hoofprint. He's spent half a century hunting, tracking and studying deer. and has just published Tracking and Finding Deer in New Zealand. Deer are known to cause… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Legendary dub reggae producer Mad Professor (aka Neil Fraser) tells Kim Hill it was a Kiwi friend who encouraged him to perform onstage for the first time. Read more Video, Audio

8:40 AM.Bob Harvey spoke with Kim Hill about cyclone gabrielles impact on Aucklands west coast communities. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.We check in with people dealing with the damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.English hip-hop poet and playwright Kae Tempest talks to Kim Hill about their gratitude for the creative process and hard-won journey to self-acceptance. Read more Video, Audio

11:05 AM.The world's first test-tube baby was born in 1978, and in vitro fertilisation has made having a baby possible for millions of people since. New York based writer Jenni Quilter explores reproductive… Read more Audio

10:33 AM.Professor Huhana Smith, who heads Whiti o Rehua School of Art at Massey University, has spent the last 20 years focussed on the restoration of her ancestral coastal whenua and awa at Kuku Beach, near… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Jemima Khan drew on her own experience of cross cultural marriage, to former Pakistani prime minister and cricketer Imran Khan, when writing her new film What's Love Got to Do With it. Read more Video, Audio

9:45 AM.Scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins Kim to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. Today he's untangling the somewhat slippery term 'Neoliberalism', which is used to describe the… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.It's been a decade since New Zealand author Eleanor Catton's novel The Luminaries won the Man Booker Prize, making then 28-year-old Catton the youngest author ever to win the award. This week she… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Incurably affable Welsh actor, comedian and impressionist Rob Brydon is perhaps best known for The Trip TV series and movie where he and Steve Coogan explore the world and middle-age together. He and… Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Cuba St's Matterhorn bar was the epitome of Wellington cool in the late 1990's and early 21st Century. The venue was a magnet for a new generation of musicians, creatives and entrepreneurs. It was… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Author and art writer Megan Dunn joins Kim to share the work of Otepoti based artists Joe L'Estrange and Nick Austin. Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Last year eccentric English singer-songwriter John Otway celebrated his 5000th show. Yet it's taken till this month for him to tour New Zealand. Self-dubbed "rock n roll's greatest failure", in 1977… Read more Video, Audio

9:30 AM.In Fear: New Zealand's hostile underworld of extremists Christchurch activist Byron C Clark traces the roots of the occupation to the reemergence of the alt-right. A video essayist on Youtube, Clark… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Set in 1940s rural Trinidad, Kevin Jared Hosein's debut novel Hungry Ghosts reflects on the fractures left for the Southern Caribbean island by a complex colonial legacy. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Professor of quantum physics Michelle Simmons believes new worlds will open up to humanity if we better understand how nature works at an atomic scale. In June her team at Silicon Quantum Computing at… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.In Sarah Polley's new film Women Talking, a group of Mennonite women who've been sexually abused secretly gather in a barn to discuss their future. The Canadian actor-director says that despite the… Read more Video, Audio

11:30 AM.The world of tabletop roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons has been shaken by a major fracas in its community. Tabletop gaming has experienced a major rise in popularity in recent years… Read more Audio