Saturday Morning Podcast Options

9:05 AM.The short but stellar career of the late comedian John Belushi is celebrated in a new documentary featuring previously unseen footage from those nearest and dearest to him. Born and raised in Chicago… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:40 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; a worrying new variant… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.81 year old Roman Catholic Sister Helen Prejean is a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty, and a spiritual adviser to men and women on Death Row The New Orleans.based Roman… Read more Video, Audio

11:40 AM.Poet and writer Kate Camp returns to discuss a historic work of classic literature. This week, Patricia Highsmith's 1955 psychological thriller The Talented Mr Ripley. The novel introduced the world… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Julia Gillard was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia. She is currently the inaugural Chair of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at Kings College London, which seeks to address women's… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Walter Prize winning US-based New Zealand artist Kate Newby's work involves the transformation of gallery spaces using architectural 'interventions' that take shape in consultation with the people… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Birds Eye View, a podcast made by some of the 80 female inmates inside the woman's section of the Darwin Correctional Centre in Australia's Northern Territory is proving an audio hit. It recently took… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Scientist and entrepreneur Professor Cather Simpson founded the University of Auckland's Photon Factory laser lab, and is part of spin-off business Orbis Diagnostics which has developed a "lab on a… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Former bookseller Abigail Dean now works as a lawyer for Google. But last year she took some time off before turning 30 to write her debut novel. Girl A is already being tipped as one of the books of… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.For over 40 years Scottish man Andrew Whitley has been on a mission to change the way our bread is made. He says the spongy white stuff that dominates supermarket bread aisles was originally developed… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.New Zealand has begun its Covid-19 vaccine programme. But countries such as South Africa have been struggling to access adequate supplies of vaccines after wealthier countries stockpiled more doses… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.New Zealand's first batch of the Pfizer BionTech Covid-19 vaccine is set to arrive next week and vaccination of high-risk people will start a few weeks later. Medical academic and former… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.A new documentary with accompanying podcast casts fresh light on a campaign in the New Zealand Wars. NZ Wars: Stories of Tainui is the third part of a series produced for RNZ by Great Southern… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Protein scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan is following his two 'esoteric cult' novels Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley and Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley with a collection of essays… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.As a young single mother in Arkansas with no medical training, Ruth Coker Burks cared for around 1000 men dying from AIDS through their final days. This was in the 1980s and 90s when the disease… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Palmerston North-based writer Laura Jean McKay recently won $125,000 at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, taking out the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Fiction award for her novel The… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.With thousands of mariners stranded in foreign waters by the coronavirus pandemic, and congestion and chaos affecting ports worldwide, there's no shortage of issues for maritime journalist Ian Urbina… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.King's College London psychology lecturer Stuart Ritchie is on a mission to take on prominent Covid deniers, "lockdown sceptics", and influencers and celebs who spout anti-scientific guff. His… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.The second impeachment trial of the former US President Donald Trump is entering a critical phase. Amherst College law professor Lawrence Douglas joins us to discuss partisanship, the proceedings, and… Read more Audio

4:35 PM.In 2015, a metre under English soil, two metal-detector enthusiasts (or detectorists) literally struck gold . They discovered an underground Viking treasure trove: a bangle, pendant and a ring, with a… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Stephanie Dowrick is a psychotherapist and interfaith minister who co-founded publishing house The Women's Press. She has written several personal development books including international bestseller… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Christchurch based audio historian and researcher Sarah Johnston (Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Rakaipaaka) recently won a Judith Binney Writing Award to study the National Broadcasting Service's Mobile… Read more Audio