Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:05 AM.Sophie Roberts is working on an ambitious Silo commission called Break Bread which broadcasts the rambunctious hidden lives of all of us. Working under the constraints of the pandemic, the production… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.All this week RNZ has been celebrating 100 years of broadcasting in New Zealand, the first broadcast having been made on the 17th of November 1921 by Professor Robert Jack from Otago University's… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Groundbreaking new research at the Malaghan Institute in Wellington has found that immune cells in the skin behave differently than their counterparts found elsewhere in the body, suggesting they play… Read more Audio

9:47 AM.When Christchurch's Hagley Park was created in the late 19th century native plants such as ferns, cabbage trees and flax were replaced by English plants like beech, elm and oak. As part of the Scape… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.The origin of Covid-19 still remains a mystery that may never be solved. Was it the result of a spillover from animals to humans, or the result of a lab leak? The idea that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.Over the last few years renowned choreographer Michael Parmenter has shifted his focus from contemporary dance to the realm of participatory social dancing. Read more Audio

8:20 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

8:10 AM.American teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two men and wounded another during protests against police brutality and riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020, has been acquitted of all charges in… Read more Audio

5:05 PM.Twelve years after releasing her last feature film, trailblazing director Dame Jane Campion has emerged with revisionist western, The Power Of The Dog. Read more Video, Audio

4:05 PM.Thousands of protesters marched on Parliament earlier this week with a mixture of motives on display. Journalist and filmmaker David Farrier has spent the last few years diving down conspiracy theory… Read more Audio

11:59 AM.Kim Hill reads listener feedback for Saturday Morning for 13 November 2021. Audio

11:05 AM.Operatic pop trio Sol3 Mio have just released their first album since their 2018 record. With group member Pene Pati still in France, Moses McKay and Amitai Pati join the show to play a few… Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.Ayukawa is a remote village that sits on the southern tip of the Oshika Peninsula in northeastern Japan. Once a prominent whaling town, the decline in demand for whale meat coupled with the… Read more Video, Audio

9:30 AM.Alexander Turnbull spent the greater part of his life - and his inheritance - growing his library, acquiring books, manuscripts, sketches and other materials relating to life in New Zealand. Published… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:35 AM.Dr Doug Wilson is a medical academic author and our regular correspondent from the other side of 80. This week he returns to discuss Pfizer's new oral antiviral drug for use against Covid-19. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.After walking more than 8000 kilometres across Europe, a puppet named Little Amal took the stage at COP26 in Glasgow to raise awareness of the plight of refugee children and the effects of climate… Read more Audio

11:59 AM.Kim Hill reads listener feedback for Saturday Morning for 6 November 2021. Audio

11:40 AM.Sydney-based New Zealander Dr Matt Baker returns for a chat about some of the latest science news. This week we revisit the topic of pachyderms, and some of Baker's own research around so-called DNA… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Never shy of dealing with controversy, Luit Bieringa has often tackled complex and flawed New Zealand cultural figures in his films. In his new film, Signed, Theo Schoon, Bieringa turns his attention… Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.Otaki-based playwright Renée has many feathers in her cap, having written numerous plays and nine fiction novels - the latest being her first venture into crime writing, The Wild Card, which she… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Rafia Zakaria's latest book of essays Against White Feminism bills itself as a counter-manifesto to "white feminism's global, long-standing affinity with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Writer Danyl McLauchlan returns to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week: in the 2010s readers devoured the four-book series known as the Neapolitan Novels, written under the… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Quintessential cantankerous New Yorker Fran Lebowitz is finding fame with a new generation of fans thanks to Scorsese-directed docu-series Pretend It's A City. Lebowitz, who was drawn to the Big Apple… Read more Video, Audio

8:40 AM.A team led by Professor Renate Meyer from the University of Auckland has received $3 million from the Marsden Fund to further their project deciphering gravitational waves - ripples in space-time… Read more Video, Audio

8:10 AM.Fifty years ago Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of the US involvement in the Vietnam War. Ellsberg is a firm supporter of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has… Read more Audio