Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:10 AM.This week a Canadian court has been considering a US application to extradite Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer of Chinese telecom giant Huawei (and daughter of its founder). Wanzhou was arrested… Read more Audio

11:38 AM.The Sámi are an indigenous people of northern Europe with a population of about 100,000 spread across Norway, Sweden and Finland into Northern Russia. Traditionally they were a nomadic people with an… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Bikram hot yoga has grown to be a global brand, with studios around the world and hundreds of teachers training each year under the guidance of its founder and guru Bikram Choudhury. Choudhury came to… Read more Audio

10:20 AM.Kiwi tech entrepreneur Josh Whale is building Africa's first electric motorbike business and an associated battery recharging network in Rwanda. Motorbikes are widely used as taxis throughout Africa… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Actor, comedy writer, and producer Amanda Lund provides a delicious pastiche of 1960s domestic life via the self-help advice of her audio alter-ego Marabel May in the The Complete Woman podcast. Now… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.How can we build up a more truthful picture of the world in the era of fake news, trolls, Trump and Putin? This is the question at the heart of Peter Pomerantsev's new book This is Not Propaganda… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Alongside thousands of Parisians, expat Aussie journalist Oliver Gee looked on with horror as the historic cathedral of Notre Dame burned in a huge fire in April this year. Over the past eight months… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.From pirates to people smugglers, enslaved crews and dodgy fishing practices, the world's oceans are home to widespread and largely unchecked illegality. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:30 AM.Self-described hippie Peter Butler helped set up HealthPost, a thriving Golden-Bay-based online natural product business. He's now on a mission to protect local wildlife. The focus of his efforts is a… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Dancer and choreographer Faustin Linyekula left his home country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the political upheaval and civil war that followed the 2001 assassination of leader… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Divided by our race, gender, and sexual orientation - it sounds like a bigoted society, but controversial British author says it's what is advocated by tyrannical 'wokeness' where our differences are… Read more Audio

9:15 AM.Former business development director for Cambridge Analytica, turned whistleblower, Brittany Kaiser was a central figure in the Netflix documentary The Great Hack. Over time her role in building up a… Read more Audio

9:10 AM."Part of me wants to cry. The other part celebrates the life of this great, great, great New Zealander."

Barry Magee trained with Sir Peter Snell under legendary coach, Arthur Lydiard. He reflects on… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.RNZ Senior Sports Journalist Barry Guy on the death of famed New Zealand Olympic middle distance runner Sir Peter Snell. Audio

8:45 AM.It's not easy taking over as a director of a beloved show with a completely new cast, but for Kiwi Jessica Hobbs, The Crown has been her most rewarding job.

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8:30 AM.Professor Richard G Whitman is an associate fellow of the Europe Programme at Chatham House (formerly known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs). He is also the director of the Global… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.With the Conservative Party recording a resounding victory in the UK general election, we ask what happens now to Boris Johnson's Brexit deal to remove the UK from the European Union? How did the… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Wayne Youle is one of our country's leading contemporary artists. His work combines pop art playfulness with a critical bi-cultural awareness. Of Ngapuhi, Ngati Whakaeke and European descent, Youle… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:07 AM.Dr Caroline Vercoe is Senior lecturer in art history at The University of Auckland.

She specialises in contemporary Pacific art and performance art, with a particular interest in issues of race… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Scottish forensic anthropologist and anatomist Professor Dame Sue Black has pioneered ways to use an image of someone's hands (often a criminal suspect's only visible physical feature) as a means of… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.In December 2016 climber Jane Morris almost lost her arm (and her life) when a falling rock hit her on Mount Tasman. Earlier that year she had become the first female president of the New Zealand… Read more Audio