Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:35 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

9:05 AM.Jill Nalder is a Welsh actress and activist. She is known for her career in theatre as well as her contribution to HIV/AIDS activism. She was the inspiration behind the character Jill Baxter in the… Read more Video, Audio

8:35 AM.Kiwi epidemiologist, Dr Anita Lim is the driving force behind a National Health Service study of do-it-at-home HpV virus swab tests in London. She's targeting areas where up to 50% women are not… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Psychotherapist Sally Weintrobe thinks most of us have been living in a bubble of denial about the climate crisis. For many the bubble is now bursting, leaving people finding it hard to manage their… Read more Audio

5:12 PM.In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed a strange object soaring through our inner solar system. The object dubbed "Oumuamua" was pancake-shaped, and as big as a football field. It… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.NZ based American actress & songwriter Chantal Claret, known for her role in the Netflix hit series 'Love' and as lead singer in the band Morningwood, The daughter of art collectors, She grew up in… Read more Video, Audio

11:05 AM.Dr Zhiyan Basharati is a finalist for the Young New Zealander of the Year Award. She came to New Zealand age 11 after spending her childhood in a Kurdish refugee camp. Now she has a PhD in forensic… Read more Audio

10:38 AM.There are over 700 sites of Māori rock art in Te Wai Pounamu / the South Island – most of it in the limestone-rich areas of North Otago and South Canterbury. Archaeologist Amanda Symon is on a mission… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:06 AM.Joey Hoofdman's biological father was Jan Karbaat – a Dutch fertility doctor who inseminated Joey's mother with his own sperm, without her knowledge. Karbaat, who died in 2017, is believed to have… Read more Video, Audio

9:30 AM.Her Say is a collection of stories told by New Zealand women who have lived in - and escaped - abusive relationships. Its publication is a long-held dream of Jackie Clark who, in 2013, launched The… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.British actor Juliet Stevenson narrates Blindness, a major international, socially-distanced theatre experience coming to the Auckland Writers Festival. Blindness is adapted from the novel of the same… Read more Audio

5:10 PM.The yoga and "wellness" world has had several high-profile members fall under the influence of QAnon and Covid denial. This intersection between right-wing conspiracy theories and left-wing wellness… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Women activists were protesting against all forms of oppression in 1984 when Auckland university lecturer and playwright Mervyn Thompson was kidnapped, beaten and chained to a tree by six women who… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Author, political commentator and Professor of Communication Design at Massey University, Claire Robinson has now written a play about Aotearoa's first Labour Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Best-selling author Isabel Allende has a brand new book - The Soul of A Woman - a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Could the harm that results from recreational drug use and abuse be mostly caused by their criminalisation and demonisation rather than their physical effects? When used responsibly, can drugs can… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Dr Katharyn Duffy is an earth systems scientist at Northern Arizona University. Collaborating with a couple of colleagues from New Zealand, she led a study, published in Science Advances, that… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Thomas Monckton is an award-winning physical theatre and circus performer originally from Patea, South Taranaki. He trained at Christchurch circus school CircoArts, and the physical theatre school… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Dr Janja Lalich is a professor emeritus in sociology who specialises in cults, extremism, and coercive influence and control and has spent decades helping people escape and recover from such… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) is a grass-roots initiative lead by the marine research non-profit organisation ProMare and backed by IBM. The MAS spends months at sea collecting data and… Read more Video, Audio

10:05 AM.Emory Douglas is an American graphic artist and member of the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the Party disbanded in the 1980s. As a 'revolutionary artist' and the Minister of Culture for the BPP… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.How would we design, implement and evaluate public policy if it were based on our love for future generations? This is the question at the centre of Dr Girol Karacaoglu's new book Love You: Public… Read more Audio