Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:10 AM.Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned, abruptly departing the country this week after his presidential palace was stormed by thousands of protesters. Read more Audio

2:07 PM.The most transmissible variant yet of the coronavirus is threatening a fresh wave of infections in New Zealand. The subvariant of Omicron known as BA.5 is reported as now dominant in the United… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Kim reads listeners' feedback Audio

11:05 AM.Aileen O'Sullivan has been directing innovative drama and documentary on stage, radio, television, and film since the 1970s. Her latest project sees her co-directing Whetu Marama - Bright Star, the… Read more Video, Audio

10:30 AM.Floris Niu is an organic cacao grower and chocolate producer in Samoa. She grew up in New Zealand, but after a series of illnesses left her corporate life for native Upolu, where her family have… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.One of New Zealand's most celebrated authors, Kate De Goldi's short fiction, novels and picture books engage children, teenagers and adults alike. Novel The 10pm Question was published to critical… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Jackie Flynn Mogensen is a reporter with the American magazine, Mother Jones. Her recent article 'A Plane of Monkeys, a Pandemic, and a Botched Deal: Inside the Science Crisis You've Never Heard Of'… Read more Audio

9:11 AM.A piece of doggerel composed on the event of the July freefall of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Audio

8:40 AM.Colombia's Truth Commission has presented its final report on the country's civil conflict, announcing that at least 450,664 people were killed over nearly six decades. Meanwhile, for the first time… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.It's been a phenomenal week in UK politics with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in a humiliating defeat, resigning as leader of the conservative party on Thursday following 59 government ministers - at… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Organic gardener Kath Irvine returns to share some winter gardening tips and to answer your questions. Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Hairy MacLary creator Dame Lynley Dodd shares her creative process in the upcoming short documentary Lynley Dodd: Writing the Pictures, Painting the Words. In her 34 books, the beloved children's… Read more Video, Audio

10:40 AM.Russian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Alexei Navalny was on a flight from Siberia to Moscow in 2020 when he started to feel ill. Navalny managed to get to Germany where he… Read more Video, Audio

10:10 AM.The bicycle has been at the centre of the culture wars for more than 200 years, says author and bike enthusiast Jody Rosen. Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Plastic surgery as a medical speciality began 100 years ago during the first world war, pioneered by Dunedin-born surgeon Harold Gillies. Read more Audio

8:40 AM.The authors behind some of the literary masterpieces of recent decades have supplied first edition copies of their books, complete with their unique hand-written annotations, for auction. Read more Audio, Gallery

8:12 AM.Long-time US women's rights lawyer Gloria Allred is probably the most famous attorney in the United States. Having represented Jane Roe (Norma McCorvey) in the 1980s, last week she watched the… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 25 June 2022. Audio

11:35 AM.Sydney-based New Zealander Dr Matt Baker returns for a chat about some of the latest science news.  Read more Audio

11:05 AM.After getting a hysterectomy in her early 40s, poet and writer Sarah Jane Barnett was prompted to examine what "being a woman" really means.  Read more Audio

10:05 AM.New film The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is the first Australian feature with an Indigenous woman writing, directing and performing the lead role. Read more Video, Audio

9:40 AM.The race is on to save a largely unknown Whanganui garden with a rich history. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Russian-American journalist and author Masha Gessen has an unparalleled understanding of the forces that have wracked Russia in recent years. Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Peace might be on the horizon for the East African nation of Ethiopia after 19 months of civil war, which has seen thousands killed and millions needing humanitarian aid. Read more Audio