Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:10 AM.Experimental theatre-maker Julia Croft seeks to reimagine a more sustainable way of living in her new solo show Terrapolis. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Jim Tucker started his journalism career in 1965 as a 18-year-old cadet at the Taranaki Herald. Now in semi-retirement in Taranaki, Tucker has been reflecting on his life as a member of the fourth… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.London-based sociologist Dr Keith Kahn Harris has written about some weighty issues, including the heavy metal music scene and antisemitism, but his latest book sprang out of a fascination with the… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.In the early 80s Aidan Hart left his job as a teacher and took up sculpting full-time, embarking on a quest to find art that would help him express the inner spirituality of man. This exploration drew… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:12 AM.The second round of the French presidential elections will see the incumbent centrist Emmanuel Macron once again face off against far-right challenger Marine Le Pen, whom Macron easily beat in the… Read more Audio

5:35 PM.Dr Chris Thorogood fulfilled a childhood dream last month after travelling deep into the Philippines rainforest to lay eyes on the otherworldly Rafflesia banaoana. Read more Audio, Gallery

5:05 PM.Known for her historical fiction, Jenny Pattrick is one of New Zealand's best-selling novelists. She has had 10 novels published since her acclaimed 2003 debut The Denniston Rose, yet Pattrick came to… Read more Audio

11:59 AM.Saturday Morning listener feedback Audio

11:35 AM.What began with an internet search for the cheapest house in New Zealand led Sam Duckor-Jones to buy an old Anglican church in Greymouth, which he then doused in pink and renamed Gloria. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Originally from Wales, avant-pop artist Cate Le Bon has made her new home in Joshua Tree National Park, in southern California. Lured by the surreal cactus-dotted landscape last year, Le Bon relocated… Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.The prevailing theory of how life started on Earth is about to be put to the test by Auckland biophysicist Dr Peter Wills and a team of international collaborators. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Workers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island made history last week when they voted to form the company's first ever US union since it was founded nearly 30 years ago. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Our regular commentator, Cambridge University consultant clinical virologist Dr Chris Smith joins us with the latest Covid-19 science, and to answer your questions. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 2 April 2022. Audio

11:07 AM.The 12th of September 2018 is a day Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert will never forget. The Australian-British academic had travelled to Iran to attend a seminar on Shia Islam and was about to return to… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Christchurch alt-country artist Delaney Davidson is no stranger to having multiple projects on the boil, and this year is no exception. Read more Video, Audio

9:35 AM.Anna Jackson has six books of her poetry to her name, but her latest Actions & Travels focuses on the work of others. Rather than an academic textbook, Actions & Travels explores how poetry works… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Renowned Maori leader Tā Tipene O'Regan (Ngāi Tahu) was named 2022 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year at a digital ceremony this week. This year marks the 25th anniversary since Tā Tipene successfully… Read more Video, Audio

8:40 AM.Artist and writer Areez Katki is a rising star in the contemporary arts scene, giving new relevance to embroidery while exploring his Queer and Parsi-Indian identity. Read more Audio, Gallery

8:11 AM.Professor Jeremy Nicholson is the Director of the Australian National Phenome Centre at Murdoch University and a leading researcher into Long Covid. His team is working with multiple universities… Read more Audio

4:45 PM.With her filmmaking Dame Jane Campion has often surprised - as she also did with comments at the recent Critics Choice Awards, for which she has apologised. And she surprises again with photos from… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 26 March 2022. Audio

11:06 AM.As the world wrestles with trying to end the Covid-19, professor David Hayman is on the hunt for our next pandemic foe. An infectious disease ecologist at Massey University, Hayman has travelled the… Read more Audio

10:10 AM.John Darnielle's latest novel Devil House looks back to the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980s, a period of moral hysteria in the US that he has often touched on musically with his indie rock group The… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is accusing the current Australian government of creating a political vacuum in the Pacific region by neglecting their needs and concerns. Rudd recently… Read more Audio