Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:10 AM.Professor Raina McIntyre leads the Biosecurity Research Program at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. One of her key research areas is in epidemic responses to… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Wellington's annual Newtown Festival is the biggest free music party and street fair in the country, attracting 80,000 people to the lively and diverse suburb every year. They go there to sample 185… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

10:30 AM.The day after Helen Kelly left her job as President of the Council of Trade Unions the terminally ill workers' rights advocate met with film director Tony Sutorius and agreed to let him film the final… Read more Video, Audio

10:05 AM.Rain Dove is a non-binary activist, and 'gender capitalist' model (they work as both male and female) who seeks to actively challenge beauty standards and gender norms. Rain has a large social media… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Fantasy writer H.G (Hannah) Parry's novel The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep imagines what might happen if well-known literary characters broke free from the books they inhabit and invaded everyday… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Kim Hill meets the hard-working, humble and often hilarious stars of the Kiwi reality TV show The Casketeers. The couple have just realised the book Life as a Casketeer: What the Business of Death Can… Read more Video, Audio

8:35 AM.Claudia de Rham's a cosmologist grappling with some of the biggest questions about life, the universe and everything. She focusses on the nature of the universe, how it was formed, and the role… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.It's been an action packed week in US politics. First a debacle over the Democratic results in the Iowa caucuses, where a combination of technical glitches and an archaic voting system meant delays in… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Entomologist Neil Birrell's job title is 'maggot wrangler in chief'! His business Hexacycle uses the larvae of the black soldier fly to eat food waste and reduce the amount of food ending up in… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Australian journalist Trent Dalton's best-selling 2018 novel Boy Swallows Universe is based on his own tough childhood in seedy '80s Brisbane. He talks to Kim Hill about his love of diving deep… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.This week Doug Wilson addresses our typical level of happiness as we age. Why is this so important, how does this fluctuate through life, and what can we do to change it? Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Motown legend Gladys Knight will perform with a nine-piece band at a sold out show at the Civic Theatre in Auckland on Thursday 13 February, and at Christchurch's Town Hall on Saturday 15 February. Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Op-shops and second hand shops are full to bursting, thanks to a rising cultural obsession with decluttering and minimalism. Adam Minter's first book Junkyard Planet (2014) examined the US$500 million… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Are you a leg-jiggler, doodler, hair twiddler or pen clicker? If so, you're not alone. Dr Kat Arney is a science writer and broadcaster who has interviewed academics, neuroscientists and fidgeters for… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.With more than 200 deaths and at least 9,000 confirmed cases, countries currently unaffected (including New Zealand) are bracing for the arrival of the disease. Dr Chris Smith, consultant virologist… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Poet and writer Kate Camp returns for the latest instalment of Kate's Klassics. This week she reviews Elizabeth Bowen's 1948 novel, The Heat of the Day. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Australia-based Nelson-born creative Anton Thomas is putting the art back into cartography with beautiful hand-drawn maps. His giant (1.2 metre by 1.5 metre) map North America: Portrait of A Continent… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:35 AM.Since 2003, Renwick School principal Simon Heath has been involved in developing the Mistletoe Bay Eco Village and Camp Ground, an outdoor activity centre in the Marlborough Sounds. Thousands of… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.American novelist André Aciman authored worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name in 2007. His recently released book Find Me revisits the same characters decades on from the summer romance recounted… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Could having too many friends be bad for you? The answer is yes, according to Oxford University Professor Robin Dunbar who studies human social networks. Read more Audio

9:06 AM.How serious is the outbreak of coronavirus? How far and fast is it likely to spread? Cases of the coronavirus "2019-nCoV" have now been confirmed in Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and the US. In… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Decimate originally came from a term for taxation, then became a word for killing one in ten people. That meaning has changed, but some people don't want to let go. Read more Audio