Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:05 AM.Lucy Blakiston is co-founder of Shit You Should Care About, an Instagram account based in New Zealand that has more than 3.3 million followers. Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.Ahmed Rashid's bestselling 2000 book Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia was used extensively by American analysts in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The Lahore-based… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, British war correspondent and author Christina Lamb finds herself back in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul. Christina Lamb is chief foreign… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Vaccine passports that prove a person's Covid-19 immunisation status are expected to be available from December for New Zealanders who want to travel abroad.  Professor Kim Mulholland is a… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.For years female country artists in North America have been told by radio programmers that they are the "tomatoes" of an all-male salad. In other words, they are the garnish and their music should be… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Space science educator and astrobiologist Haritina Mogosanu returns to Saturday Morning to discuss growing plants in space. Her Seeds in Space programme has involved distributing seeds to more than… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Formerly based in London, now in lockdown in Auckland, photographer Todd Antony usually travels the reaches of the globe on ambitious commercial and personal projects, racking up numerous… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:35 AM.In his debut book How We Became Human: And Why We Need To Change, Sydney-based philosopher, writer and teacher Tim Dean looks at how we evolved to be moral creatures, and why some of our evolved… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.A controversial law dubbed the 'Heartbeat Bill' has come into effect in the US State of Texas this week after the Supreme Court did not respond to an emergency appeal by abortion providers. The… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Genetically engineered mosquitoes could be the key to winning the war against malaria, a disease that affects more than 200 million people every year and kills more than 400,000 - many of whom are… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.As of Friday afternoon, more than 70 percent of New Zealanders aged 12 or over had received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, or are booked in to receive it. But as witnessed in Israel, where… Read more Audio

5:06 PM.Australian actor Bryan Brown is a familiar face on our screens. Brown is adding another feather to his cap by trying his hand at crime writing. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Award-winning Kiwi cartoonist Toby Morris tells Kim Hill working on his latest book Dad Man Walking was "a bit of a reprieve" from his regular gig illustrating Covid-19 explainers for the World Health… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:40 AM.In her new short documentary Fifty Percent, Lillian Hanly grapples with an agonising decision: should she get tested for Huntington's disease? Her grandfather, New Zealand artist and printmaker Pat… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Mycelium, the root system of fungi, has increasingly started to be used as an alternative to plastic, but its uses are also extending into architecture and design as a living, construction material. … Read more Audio, Gallery

8:36 AM.Covid-19 has seen Sydney investigative journalist and broadcaster Dr Norman Swan thrust into a role as arguably Australia's most well-known doctor and a trusted voice in the long pandemic. He joins us… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.As many as 170 Afghan people and 13 American troops are being reported as having been killed in a blast outside Kabul's international airport on Thursday night. Dr Srinjoy Bose is a Senior Lecturer in… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Protein scientist and writer Danyl McLauchlan joins RNZ's Saturday Morning to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week he's discussing the future of the news and how journalism will… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Following on from her critically acclaimed 2018 debut Tinderbox, Wellington-based author Megan Dunn has returned with new book Things I Learned At Art School. Billed as part-memoir and part essay… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.New The Spinoff coeditors Alex Casey and Madeleine Chapman chat with Colin peacock and share some favourite songs. Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Jim Schuster works with Heritage New Zealand as a marae restorer around New Zealand and the world, and in the latter category there's one particularly close to his heart. Meeting house Hinemihi has… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Felix Marquardt is a French author, former PR consultant and senior advisor to world leaders and CEOs, some he admits shady. His first book The New Nomads boldly proposes the future of humanity and… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Concerns are high for the women of Afghanistan following the Taliban's swift takeover of the Middle Eastern country.  Professor Vrinda Narain says women were subjected to persistent human rights… Read more Audio