Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:40 AM.Scots go to the polls for the Scottish Parliament election on May 6 and the stakes are high as the Scottish National Party aims to control the devolved parliament and make another push for… Read more Video, Audio

8:14 AM.All across India, a trail of death and misery is devastating the country and pushing the overburdened healthcare system towards collapse. Oxygen and medicine are in short supply as the nation deals… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Poet and writer Kate Camp returns to discuss another classic work of literature. This week, Sydney Bridge Upside Down. Written by David Ballantyne and published in 1968, it's been described as the… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.All travel between New Zealand and Western Australia has been paused after a three-day lockdown was announced in Perth and the Peel region. Kim asked epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker about the… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Bill Edgar is the son of one of Australia's most notorious gangsters, a former street kid, prisoner, sexual abuse survivor and inventor. Now the Queensland private investigator has found fame for… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Australian human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson has been described as the go-to barrister for London's rich and famous. Standing by her clients Julian Assange and Amber Heard in the full glare of… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.New Zealand film director Toa Fraser, 46, recently revealed on Twitter that he has Young Onset Parkinson's Disease. "People used to say I look cool. These days, people ask me why I look so serious… Read more Video, Audio

9:05 AM.Morris Pearl is chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of hundreds of high-net-worth people who want millionaires, billionaires, and corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. Patriotic… Read more Audio

8:45 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. This week, the latest on India's… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Rachel Morris makes actual museums but she says that, in a way, we are all museum-makers as we try to make sense of the chaos of the past. Unpacking boxes of old family stuff from under her bed… Read more Audio

5:12 PM.Patricia Lockwood's 2017 memoir Priestdaddy was named one of the 10 best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review. She's just released her debut novel No One Is Talking About This, which… Read more Audio

1:11 PM.Cal Flyn's latest book, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape tells the story of a dozen abandoned places around the world, from Chernobyl to the volcanic Caribbean, and looks… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:38 AM.After many years running a veterinary clinic in Cambodia, Trish Johansen is on a mission to eradicate rabies. More than 100 years after a rabies vaccine was developed, people are still dying horrible… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:09 AM.Terry Wilson is a pioneer in using global positioning systems (GPS) to understand the loss of Antarctic ice. She says Antarctica's bedrock is rising as the ice melts and this will have implications… Read more Audio

10:37 AM.Ageing well is not just about longevity, according to medical academic Doug Wilson. It is the art of living well, making the most of the time we have, and finding ways to enhance our happiness and… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Attitudes to rape and women's rights in the Bahamas make it an ideal hunting ground for an alleged sexual predator, Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard, according to outspoken Bahamian radio host… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.The psychedelic drug psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, is as good at reducing symptoms of depression as conventional treatment, a small, early-stage trial has suggested. The study, run by Imperial… Read more Audio

11:40 AM."He korora, he tohu oranga: the little penguin is the sign of life". This whakatauki, that the success of korora populations indicates the health of the coastal marine environment, underpins John… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:06 AM.Poet Johanna Emeney says that Felt, her new collection of poems, explores teaching, animals and how emotions and "the things that have hit me hard over the past decade" are felt in the body. Read more Audio

10:43 AM.Georgia Rippin (Tainui, Ngati Mahuta) is a New Zealand writer and television producer based in New York where she works on programmes for Netflix and Showtime. Her early productions, including… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.The hunt for a wine collection believed to have been hidden in a remote Georgian winery during the Second World War is at the centre of a new book, Stalin's Wine Cellar. First owned by Nicholas II… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Constant surveillance, cultural suppression and 're-education' are a day-to-day reality for the approximately 12 million Muslim minority Uighur people who live in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of… Read more Audio