Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:36 AM."Small things tell big stories" is Wellington-based archaeologist Mary O' Keeffe's mantra. She spends her time uncovering fragments of our past from building and roading sites, piecing together… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Three-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist Ben Harper has a soft spot for Aotearoa and the feeling is mutual. Since his 1994 debut Harper has pushed musical boundaries, mixing… Read more Video, Audio

9:10 AM.Within 48 hours of Donald Trump's 2016 victory, Masha Gessen's essay Autocracy: Rules for Survival had gone viral. A staff writer at The New Yorker, Gessen's Soviet childhood and two decades covering… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Life coach and counsellor Kristie Amadio is using her own experiences to help others recover from eating disorders. Formerly a top level weightlifter, she developed anorexia as a teenager while in… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.It's less than two weeks until the US election. April Ryan joins us to discuss the latest from Presidential race, and to digest the reaction to the final debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Mohamed Hassan is an award-winning journalist and poet based in Auckland. Public Enemy, his 2016 podcast series about the rise of Islamophobia post 9/11, won Gold at the 2017 New York Festival Radio… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Sarah Kessans started her academic career studying plants; now the self-confessed 'space geek' is a synthetic biologist trying to build New Zealand's role in the global space economy. Her research… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Professor Judith Butler is an activist, philosopher, and critical theorist who has spent decades writing about gender. She's authored several books, but is best known for her widely influential 1990… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Lawyer Belinda (Binnie) O'Dwyer was born in Hastings, and now lives in New South Wales where she works for the Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS). A former environmental activist, she's trying to combat… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Stanford University Professor and Auctionomics co-founder Paul Milgrom has just been awarded a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences alongside his former academic supervisor Professor Robert Wilson. You… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Is the way we breed and keep pet animals essentially cruel and unethical? Esther Woolfson is an Scottish author and animal lover. Her latest book Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's likely replacement on the Supreme Court, has been grilled about her stance on abortion rights during her confirmation hearing this week. Facebook and… Read more Audio

4:50 PM.Dr Norman Swan is an investigative journalist, broadcaster, and producer based in Sydney.

He's the host of the ABC's Health Report, and Coronacast, a podcast dedicated to informing Australians on the… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.Change hit Ireland like "an express train" and transformed it from a backward country into one that the Irish are proud of, says one of its most famous sons. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Medical academic, former pharmaceutical executive, and author of Ageing For Beginners, Doug Wilson's back, reporting in from the other side of 80.

This week he's looking at how our brains age and… Read more Audio

11:09 AM.Australian writer and journalist Trent Dalton has just followed up the massive success of his semi-autobiographical debut novel Boy Swallows Universe with a new book All Our Shimmering Skies. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Jazz saxophonist and producer Nathan Haines has been through somewhat of a metamorphosis in recent years. He's evolved from edgy wunderkind to humble legend, via sobriety, fatherhood and cancer.

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10:06 AM.Eating roadkill, getting a vasectomy at 25 and reducing your worldly possessions to 44 items. It all makes sense if you follow environmental ethics to their logical end. That's just what Rob… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Working as a pharmacist in some of the worst conflict zones in the world has given Petra Straight a new perspective on risk.

She was part of the response to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, and… Read more Audio, Gallery

4:26 PM.You may have seen artist Theo Janssen's amazing kinetic sculptures on social media. His Strandbeest are large surreal animal skeletons that walk by themselves powered by wind. He's been making them by… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:15 PM.Aigagalefili Fepulea'i-Tapua'i has become a powerful voice for South Auckland students. The 17-year-old Aorere College head girl has spoken to the impact of Covid-19 on her fellow year 13 students -… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Poet and writer Kate Camp returns to discuss another classic work of literature. Now seems like the perfect time for a deep dive into a dystopian sci-fi world so she's chosen English author Aldous… Read more Audio