Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:07 AM.Award-winning investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe paints deeply human portraits of victims and vigilantes alike in his latest page-turner, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Monkeypox cases continue to rise globally with more than 26,000 now confirmed in at least 75 different countries, including New Zealand. There is however a global shortage of vaccines to combat the… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Considered one of the world's great violinists, American Hilary Hahn is a three-time Grammy Award winner passionate about making classical music more accessible. Read more Video, Audio

11:05 AM.In the touching new documentary A Boy Called Piano, playwright and musician Fa'amoana John Luafutu shares his story of coming to New Zealand from Samoa as a child in the 1950s, only to be taken from… Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.From pink and black 1950s suits to bejeweled Vegas jumpsuits, the new Elvis biopic directed by Baz Luhrmann runs the gamut of groundbreaking outfits worn by the King. The costumes were created by… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Boris Johnson's resignation as British Prime Minister earlier this month was "publicly humiliating and a bloody an end as any in the 300 year history of the office", says Sir Anthony Seldon, the UK's… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The latest book by historian James Belich, The World The Plague Made, explores how the Black Death of the 14th century not only halved populations but also helped bring about Europe's rise. Read more Audio

8:39 AM.What's been hailed as the largest climate change bill in the United States and indeed the world could soon be passed. The surprise agreement, which Senate Democrats announced late Wednesday and hope… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.In early 2021, during the Covid lockdowns, teenager Dov Forman started posting videos to social media with his great-grandmother Lily Ebert, a Holocaust survivor. Read more Audio

11:10 AM.Dr Norman Swan's new book So You Want To Live Younger Longer? is filled with practical information on how to stay at your peak no matter what your age, while debunking money and time-wasting myths. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Despite living in the bustling metropolis of New York, Risa Mickenberg largely shuns social connections and relationships. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Punch, the debut feature by director Welby Ings, examines the relationship between a teenage boxer and his alcoholic father, played by Oscar-nominee Tim Roth. Read more Video, Audio

9:35 AM.From sleeping on a ledge high above the Grand Canyon to paddleboarding the Baltic sea, artist and designer David Trubridge has journeyed far and wide, camera in hand. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:09 AM.Danish-British writer, comedian, broadcaster and activist Sandi Toksvig is touring our shores in early December. Read more Video, Audio

8:48 AM.First produced in 1984, Wednesday to Come follows the women of an Ōtaki family during the Great Depression. For director Erina Daniels, it's a story that has strong parallels with today. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.After leading the country's Covid response for the last two years, Dr Ashley Bloomfield is stepping down from the role of Director General of Health. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Kate Camp's newly published memoir You Probably Think This Song Is About You borrows its title from Carly Simon's classic 1972 song 'You're so Vain'. So it's no surprise the Wellington poet is joining… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.The beetle larvae known as Zophobas morio - more commonly called superworms - have been found to be able to survive on a diet of polystyrene, a discovery which could help change the recycling… Read more Video, Audio

10:05 AM.In 1982, young filmmaker Robert B. Weide wrote a letter to his literary idol Kurt Vonnegut, proposing a documentary on the author's life and work. Vonnegut, who was 60 at the time, met Weide, and… Read more Video, Audio

9:40 AM.Celebrated saxophonist Lucien Johnson has poetry in the blood. He is the son of late poet Louis Johnson and first met his father's friend and fellow poet Peter Bland as a child. . For the upcoming… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Lea Ypi grew up in Albania, once one of the most isolated countries on Earth and the last Stalinist outpost in Europe. But after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, everything changed. Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Las Vegas show-maker Brian Burke has a reputation for creating incredible large-scale stage productions. Now Burke is bringing his magic to our very own World of WearableArt, having signed on as the… Read more Audio