Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:05 AM.In the new documentary The Girl on The Bridge, suicide survivor Jazz Thornton confronts New Zealand's youth mental health crisis head-on. The film documents not only Jazz's extraordinary activism but… Read more Video, Audio

9:05 AM.American mountaineer and writer Jon Krakauer was a member of a fateful 1996 Mount Everest expedition that got caught in a blizzard that claimed eight lives, including New Zealanders Rob Hall and… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:10 AM.Brazil is on track to overtake the US and have the world's highest death toll from Covid-19 by the end of this month. Led by President Jair Bolsonaro, who currently has the virus - which he calls a… Read more Audio

5:05 PM.Cambridge University consultant clinical virologist Dr Chris Smith returns to digest emerging Covid-related science and research. This week, a growing understanding of the widespread (and sometimes… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Described by a Guardian reviewer as "superb hate-reading", writer and columnist Anand Giridharadas's latest book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World investigates the hypocrisy of… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Slow Boat Records is a Wellington institution, a magnet for musos and vinyl heads. As the city's longest surviving independent record store, it was named one of the world's finest music shops back in… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Astronaut, oceanographer and adventurer Kathy Sullivan recently became the first person ever to have walked in space, and to have travelled to the deepest point of the world's oceans. She's just… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.The author of Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, and number9dream, David Mitchell, has just released a new novel: his first in five years. Utopia Avenue, is a magical, musical story about '...the… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Formerly a writer on Shortland Street, director Max Currie is bringing his acclaimed web series Rurangi to the big screen as part of this year's New Zealand International Film Festival. Billed as a… Read more Video, Audio

11:40 AM.Christo, the Bulgarian-born conceptual artist best known for wrapping large and unlikely things died last month. He worked for much of his career with partner Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:00 AM.British artist Jason deCaires Taylor is a sub-aquatic artist with a growing list of extraordinary works. His seabed creations, often featuring realistic human figures based on local people, become… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Matthew Cobb is Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester where his research focuses on the sense of smell, insect behaviour, and the history of science (also, maggots!). His new book The… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Artist and painter Sandy Adsett (Ngāti Kahungunu) has just been selected by the Arts Foundation as an icon of New Zealand art "...for his profound impact on the Māori community and Māori arts… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.In mountaineering circles, saying you'd never want to share a rope with someone is a harsh insult. And when the man saying these things about you is national hero Sir Edmund Hillary, it really isn't… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Why do some diseases spread while others fail to take hold? Adam Kucharski studies the mathematics of contagion: predicting patterns of transmission for outbreaks including Ebola, Zika and now… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Former policeman Joseph DeAngelo, the man known as the Golden State Killer, admitted to 13 murders and myriad other crimes in court this week in a plea deal designed to spare him the death penalty… Read more Audio

5:20 PM.With the world in lockdown, people are having to get creative in their pursuit of overseas adventures. Country school teacher and sheep farmer Angie Hossack has discovered a lucrative side hustle… Read more Audio

4:40 PM.Lawyer Julia Steenson (Ngati Whatua and Waikato/Tainui) is a new Commissioner of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-Based Institutions.  Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Vocalist and guitarist who plays with drummer Nick Gaffaney in hard rock duo Cairo Knife Fight, and is currently on the Nation of the State tour throughout New Zealand with his funk band Ahoribuzz. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.A leading light in indigenous film-making, Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne/ Mescalero Apache) grew up on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. Since 2001 he has led the Sundance Institute's… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.The Institute for Digital Archaeology aims to use modern technology to preserve and in some cases rebuild ancient objects so more people can enjoy them. Roger Michel is the founder and Executive… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Dr Alexy Karenowska wants people to be able to sniff history. She's a magnetician at the University of Oxford, a physicist and engineer who is also the Director of Technology of the Institute of… Read more Audio, Gallery