Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:05 AM.Professor Richie Poulton, director of the internationally-renowned Dunedin Study, joins Kim Hill to look back on his own life’s developments and play some favourite songs. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Poet Nick Ascroft considers one of his claims to fame to be "nearly winning the Kathleen Grattan Prize four times, the most anyone has nearly won it". Which might partly explain why his fifth… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.After 11 years working as a science and tech journalist, Kris De Decker realised that low-tech is actually the way of the future. He's the creator of Low-Tech Magazine - a solar-powered website hosted… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.The path to sainthood can be long - as long as a 1000 years. For Meri Hohepa Suzanne Aubert, who died in 1926, that path hit a snag earlier this year when the Vatican Medical Council decided a… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.On Friday 7 October Jamie McLellan won the John Britten Black Pin at the Designers Institute of NZ's Best Design Awards, the most prestigious award on the New Zealand design calendar. Currently based… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:10 AM.The headscarves women are required to wear by the Islamic Republic of Iran are now becoming a symbol of defiance. London-based CBS News correspondent Roxana Saberi was born in the United States to an… Read more Audio

6:00 PM.New Zealand rugby star Ruby Tui tells Susie Ferguson why she's sharing the rough details of her early life in the new memoir Straight Up. Read more Video, Audio

11:42 AM.Recording the sounds of our planet over four decades, American Jim Metzner is an audio legend. Host and producer of one of the longest running science programmes Pulse of the Planet, Metzner has… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:40 AM.Nutritional supplements proven to lower the risk of PTSD should be part of our public health response to disasters such as the Christchurch mosque attacks, says the University of Canterbury psychology… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.This week chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt called out the government on its lack of progress in implementing its Healthy Homes Standards, saying it puts New Zealand in breach of our… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Descending deep down into the waters off the west coast of Ireland, to where there is no light, underwater chemist Sam Afoullouss has a robot collecting marine organisms in his search for new… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Captain Robert Scott's last diary entry, as he lay freezing and starving to death on an ill-fated South Pole journey, concludes: "for God's sake look after our people". Uppermost were the three women… Read more Audio

8:00 AM.Egyptian veterinarian Amir Khalil is widely known as 'the war vet', having spent years rescuing animals from disaster areas and war zones. Read more Video, Audio

11:05 AM.After 17 years hosting Nights, RNZ presenter Bryan Crump heads over to our fine music network RNZ Concert this month. He joins Kim Hill to play some favourite songs and chat about his career. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

10:35 AM.Robbie Burton has been at the helm of independent publishers Potton & Burton since 1990, when it was called Craig Potton Publishing. Having published countless non-fiction titles over the decades… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.At 85 years old, Helen Dew is a sustainability legend in Carterton. Read more Audio

9:35 AM.The life and work of Sylvia Durrant, otherwise known as Auckland's Bird Lady, is celebrated in a new book which is part graphic biography part environmental handbook authored by Johanna Emeney and… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick explores the intriguing world of mind-control in his book Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.The Spinoff's editor-at-large Toby Manhire has been spending much of his recent time following the highs and lows of the local body election campaigns across the country. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.El Salvador journalist Carlos Dada received the IPI World Press Freedom Hero award this month in the face of continued persecution of the media in central America. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.'Living well as a practice for dying well' is the subject of deathwalker Zenith Virago's speech on September 23 at the third Death Matters conference in Christchurch. Based in Byron Shire, just north… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Hawaiian artist, illustrator and self-described 'possibilist' Solomon Enos evokes Pacific science fiction and fantasy for his art created in his series across different media Polyfantastica.  Read more Audio, Gallery