Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:05 AM.Is Colin McCahon our country's most important artist? Justin Paton thinks so. Paton is Head Curator of International Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, an active art critic, and author of… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 AM.Dr Alexander Gerst aka "Astro Alex" has spent almost a year in space, having completed two missions on the International Space Station (I.S.S.). The European Space Agency astronaut launched on a Soyuz… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:25 AM.Anna Delvey was an ambitious young German heiress, living the high life in New York City. That's what it looked like from the outside, and what those nearest and dearest to her thought. In fact she… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.The South American nation of Bolivia is in a state of chaos following a general election on October 20 2019. Evo Morales, the country's first indigenous president, who has been in power since 2006… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.A new book tells the story of Aotearoa New Zealand through the maps that guided our first inhabitants and the explorers and settlers that followed. Singing the Trail digs back into the history of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:07 AM.Alice Cooper was originally the name of a band. Then singer and harmonica player Vincent Damon Furnier took the name for himself and went solo. In the Seventies he became a bona fide rock legend and… Read more Video, Audio

10:43 AM.Becky Bateman is an astro-tourism operator involved in plans to turn Wairarapa into New Zealand's second dark sky reserve after the Aoraki Mackenzie Dark Sky Reserve, and alongside dark sky… Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Dr John Peterson 'Pete' Myers is a US environmental scientist acknowledged as a pioneer of research looking at how plastics in food packaging and in the environment could be affecting health. He's the… Read more Audio

9:43 AM.Trans-national arranged marriage has been in the news this week with debate over immigration policy and recent comments from New Zealand First MP Shane Jones. Many community leaders have defended the… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Red Hot Chili Peppers' co-founder and bassist Flea (aka Michael Balzary) talks to Kim Hill about love, drugs, friendship, healing and Acid For The Children – a searingly honest memoir about his… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.The Guardian's health editor Sarah Boseley's campaign to highlight the plight of child labourers working in the tobacco industry in Malawi has prompted human rights lawyers working for UK law firm… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.British neurosurgeon Professor Steven Gill is trying to halt, or even reverse, the development of the progressive neurological condition Parkinson's with an experimental drug: GDNF. Medical trials for… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Artist Louise Henderson (1902-1994) worked alongside major New Zealand art figures including Rita Angus, John Weeks, Colin McCahon and Milan Mrkusich and developed a bold, colourful and distinctive… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Australian cannabis agronomist and Churchill Fellow Tom Forrest has recently visited 50 commercial growing operations around the world, including ones in Canada, Europe, Slovenia and Israel. With… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:06 AM.Across a 30 year writing career, Scottish historian, broadcaster and critic William Dalrymple has been preoccupied with the history and culture of India. It's the country he now calls home for half… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Jill Heinerth is a Canadian cave diver, underwater explorer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker. She is a veteran of over thirty years of filming, photography, and exploration on projects in… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Rural Kiwi characters rarely seen on-screen take centre stage in the new film Bellbird, directed by Northland primary school teacher Hamish Bennett.  Read more Video, Audio

8:35 AM.November 28th will be the 40th anniversary of the Erebus disaster which shook our nation and took 257 lives when an Air New Zealand sightseeing flight crashed into a mountain in Antarctica. A Royal… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.A new study indicates previous estimates of the global impact of sea level rise have been grossly understated. The research, published in the journal Nature Communications and conducted by the… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.Poet and writer Kate Camp returns for the latest instalment of Kate's Klassics. This week she reviews Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann. The American writer's debut book became the biggest… Read more Video, Audio

11:08 AM.In its 15 year history the Fly My Pretties musical collective has staged incredible live performances, and released six best-selling live albums. Now they've released The Studio Recordings Part One… Read more Audio

10:37 AM.Stepping into a witness box to give evidence in court can be daunting and stressful, especially for young and vulnerable people. In several US states and in Canada the use of court dogs as support… Read more Audio