Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:05 AM.Dixon Chibanda is one of only 12 psychiatrists in Zimbabwe serving a population of more than 16 million people: and over 90 per cent of them don't have access to therapy or antidepressants. To help… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.'An unsentimental yet lyrical love letter to the land' is how reviewer Linda Burgess describes Fielding farmer, Tim Saunders' new book This Farming Life. Tim also writes poetry and won the 2018… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Melbourne-based David Coles is one of very few master paint-makers in the world. In his book Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour, he blends art, science and history in tracing some of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:30 AM.Maritime unions are worried about the deteriorating treatment, mental health, and employment conditions of an estimated 300,000 merchant sailors stranded at sea, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.President Donald Trump has ordered US firms to stop doing business with the wildly popular TikTok app and with WeChat within 45 days in a major escalation in Washington's stand-off with Beijing… Read more Audio

11:45 AM."I am an invisible man....I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Chilean film-maker Pablo Larraín, whose previous films include No, the Oscar-nominated Jackie, and Neruda, teams up Mexican actor Gael García Bernal and newcomer Mariana Di Girolamo in Ema. A story… Read more Video, Audio

10:35 AM.Imelda Marcos' vast shoe collection (anywhere from 1,200 to 3,000 pairs) became an emblem of the corrupt and lavish regime of her husband, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos. It's estimated that… Read more Video, Audio

10:05 AM.Most people think that fish aren't as intelligent or sophisticated as land animals. We joke about their poor memory and many still believe fish don't feel pain in the way other animals do. Australian… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Multi award-winning director Oliver Stone is a controversial figure in American filmmaking. The Vietnam veteran's portrayals of war and violence have proved contentious, as have his political views… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law left the city recently and decamped to the UK. A long-time thorn in the side of the Beijing government, Law has been arrested many times and imprisoned… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.QAnon, an intricate conspiracy theory which suggests US President Donald Trump is secretly waging war on a well-connected Satanic paedophile ring, should not be dismissed as a harmless oddity… Read more Audio

5:07 PM.How does it feel to become part of a system that fails Maori? In her new podcast Getting Better: A Year in the Life of A Maori Medical Student, trainee doctor and award-winning writer Emma Espiner… Read more Audio

4:30 PM.In 2012 Haifaa al-Mansour became the first Saudi woman to direct a feature film. Wadjda which was centred on a 10-year-old Saudi girl living in Riyadh and her quest to own a bicycle, became a festival… Read more Video, Audio

3:12 PM.An expat New Zealander is trying to get FDA approval for a cheap ventilator that could be a game-changer in the treatment of Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses across the developing world… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.In 1995, while sitting in a London pub, a bunch of men formed the first gay inclusive rugby club, the King's Cross Steelers. Since then more than 60 clubs have formed around the world, coming together… Read more Video, Audio

10:06 AM.Former US champion gymnast Jennifer Sey first blew the whislte on the culture of bullying and abuse in top level gymnastics in her 2008 book Chalked Up (2008). She's the producer of a new Netflix… Read more Video, Audio

9:06 AM.Former US President Barack Obama declared Samantha Power to be one of his country's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy". She was human rights adviser to the Obama White House before becoming the… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:41 AM.More Than Weeds is a project aimed at changing our perception of urban plants growing on walls, pavements and tree pits. It's the brainchild of Sophie Leguil a freelance botanical consultant based in… Read more Audio

5:30 PM.Alice Procter is an art historian, tour guide and museum enthusiast who thinks institutions need to be more honest about how they came to acquire their collections. She runs "Uncomfortable Art Tours"… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Our expert on ageing Doug Wilson's back with his take on how the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic will affect older New Zealanders and what we need to do to protect them should the virus start spreading… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Layla (not her real name) is a New Zealander working remotely from the Bay of Plenty as an online advocate for some of the estimated 400,000 migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. They are mostly women… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police murderer Ned Kelly is both a man and a myth. From Sir Sydney Nolan's epic paintings to Peter Carey's 2001 Booker Prize-winning novel… Read more Audio