Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:10 AM.Andriy Dubchak is the founder and CEO of Donbas Frontliner, a independent media outlet based in Ukraine and reporting on the escalating military tensions with Russia. Dubchak is usually based in Kyiv… Read more Audio

11:43 AM.Sydney-based New Zealander Dr Matt Baker returns for a chat about some of the latest science news.  Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Humanity is facing a crisis of mass distraction, says British writer Johann Hari, and we need a collective fight to get our attentional abilities back. Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Max Tweedie was appointed as the director of Auckland Pride in 2019, when he was just 21 years old. Since then he's become a well-known voice, consistently speaking out about conversion therapy, trans… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.The 1955 Adoption Act allowed adoptive parents to sever ties with a child's birth parents, and left few options for adoptees to access information about them. For Maori who went through the system as… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist, activist, political scientist and essayist. She has published 19 books, her latest, The Island of Missing Trees, was shortlisted for the 2021… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Volker Kuntzsch passionately believes New Zealand needs to move towards more ocean-based primary production, with plankton and seaweed leading a burgeoning blue economy.  Read more Audio

8:12 AM.This week Denmark became the first country in the European Union to lift all its Covid-19 restrictions - including the wearing of face masks. Despite a rise in case numbers, the Scandinavian country… Read more Audio

5:05 PM.In his new book Sweat, best-selling author Bill Hayes turns his attention to our long-standing obsession with exercise. Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Listener feedback from the Saturday Morning program. Audio

11:05 AM.Audio aficionado Karl Steven is poised to release his debut solo album All of Human Emotion on Microfiche next week, a record described as "collage of organic and electronic sources, synthesised down… Read more Video, Audio

10:05 AM.Directed by New Zealander Briar March, new documentary Mothers of the Revolution tells the story of one of the longest protests in history. Between 1981 and 2000, thousands of women came together at… Read more Video, Audio

9:40 AM.New Zealand veterinarian Trish Johansen has been running a clinic in Siem Reap since 2015, and among her clients have been Cambodia's remarkable landmine-clearing rats. The death of one such rat… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:35 AM.Ruawai-raised actor Roy Billing has been gracing New Zealand screens since the 1970s.  Having returned to our shores after being based in Sydney for many years, Billing will soon be treading the… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The delay of a highly-anticipated report into parties held in Downing Street during lockdown has prompted calls for UK prime minister Boris Johnson to stop suppressing "crucial details" and tell the… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Our Listener feedback for 18 December. Audio

11:06 AM.This week the Auckland City Mission was handed the keys to a brand new nine-storey building on Hobson Street. It's called HomeGround, and heralds an exciting new phase for the mission's work. Auckland… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.To most people Scrabble might seem a fun game to break out during the summer holidays, but for Alastair Richards it's serious business. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Arthur Brooks is a Harvard professor, social scientist, bestselling author, and the 'happiness correspondent' for The Atlantic. His weekly column, How To Build A Life helps point people towards… Read more Video, Audio

9:43 AM.Organic gardener Kath Irvine returns to share some tips around gardening this summer and to answer your questions. Read more Audio

9:06 AM.The start of the 1920s was a traumatic time in New Zealand's history. Former chief of staff for the Prime Minister, Mike Munro brings together the story of an eagerly-anticipated rugby tour, and the… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Writer and environmental advocate Tim Higham is trying to live, as he puts it from fish to fish in a house in the bush on Aotea Great Barrier Island. That's where we find him in his book Island Notes… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.As we head into the third year of the pandemic, a group of distinguished international scientists has published an opinion piece arguing that vaccine strategies need to shift focus from trying to stop… Read more Audio

11:55 AM.Listener Feedback for 11 December 2021. Audio