Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:07 AM.Australian author Christos Tsiolkas is best known for his fourth novel, The Slap, from 2009. This closely-observed portrait of simmering social tension won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was turned… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.New Zealand industry generates over 100,000 tonnes of food waste per year at the same time as many kiwi families are unable to afford and access good food. Deborah Manning saw an obvious solution to… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Almost a third of people diagnosed with clinical depression do not respond to medication or talk therapy. A potential treatment for this chronic or treatment-resistant depression is Repetitive… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Money is sometimes the only difference between eccentricity and madness, says Lady Anne Glenconner, who served as Princess Margaret's lady-in-waiting for over 30 years. Now 87, Lady Anne has written a… Read more Video, Audio

8:10 AM.Public health professor Thomas Novotny from San Diego State University's School of Public Health has just co-authored an editorial in The British Medical Journal calling for a ban on filtered… Read more Audio

11:45 AM.The Pastafarian faith claims 30 million devotees worldwide including over 4000 New Zealanders according to last year's census. The religion revolves around the idea that the world was created by a… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Scottish poet and writer Michael Pedersen co-runs and founded Neu! Reekie! a UK arts collective which produces shows all over the globe and hosts take-overs for National Galleries, National Museums… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Michael Connelly is a bestselling crime fiction writer whose 31 books have sold more than 60 million copies worldwide and been translated into 40 different languages. Since his first novel The Black… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Dr Matire Harwood (Ngapuhi) has devoted her medical career to issues relating to Maori health. She works as a GP in a busy medical centre in South Auckland, teaches at The University of Auckland's… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Beloved Scottish comedian, musician, actor and storyteller Billy Connolly retired from live stand-up comedy at the end of last year, as a result of the progress of Parkinson's disease, the… Read more Video, Audio

8:35 AM.Last weekend was exciting for fans of distance running. Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge broke the "unbreakable" two-hour marathon barrier and compatriot Brigid Kosgei smashed a 16 year old women's… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.British MPs vote tomorrow (Saturday UK time) on the amended Brexit deal that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has negotiated with the European Union. Meanwhile, the former Labour Party press secretary… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.The wealth of new research about the science of ageing should help improve care for older people but is there a danger in over medicalising a natural process? Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Mike White is well known for his hard hitting investigative crime and justice journalism including coverage of Mark Lundy, Scott Watson, and the murder of Scott Guy. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.As the granddaughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, Megan Phelps-Roper grew up believing that God hates gay people. Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Musician, artist, and author Kim Gordon has released her first solo album No Home Record eight years after the end of her band Sonic Youth and her 27 year marriage to bandmate Thurston Moore. Read more Video, Audio

9:05 AM.Author and New York University professor Zadie Smith has just released Grand Union, her first collection of short fiction. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Ecological economist Marjan Van Den Belt is excited about the environmental and financial opportunities large scale seaweed farming could bring to New Zealand. Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Turkish forces have entered Kurdish-held areas of northern Syria in response to a US military withrawal from the region. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Musician, CEO of the Play it Strange Trust and former Split Enz guitarist Mike Chunn has a new memoir A Sharp Left Turn. He'll share some of his favourite songs with Kim. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island in Lyttelton Harbour was the site of New Zealand's only leprosy colony. The fate of those who ended up on the Island was grim, with a lack of care and reports of… Read more Audio, Gallery