Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:05 AM.Monogamy isn't necessarily the most important aspect of a marriage, according to John Oh – a sex worker based in Sydney. Among his clients are women who want to have sex outside marriage without… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.The Manus Recording Project Collective's work how are you today? is a collaboration between six men detained on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Australian radio-makers Michael Green and Jon Tjhia… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.20 years ago Stephen Chbosky wrote the best selling novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Since then he's been writing and directing films with credits including the movie of his own novel, a live… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Melissa Anelli is the author of the New York Times bestseller Harry, A History, which chronicles the Harry Potter phenomenon, the webmistress of The Leaky Cauldron fansite, and a host of the… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.New Zealand protest group Halt All Racist Tours (HART) formed in 1969 to protest against sporting contact with apartheid South Africa. In 1981 the issue of whether the All Blacks should play the… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:43 AM.Author, artist, poet Gregory O'Brien has always been enchanted by water, and in particular the role it plays in the lives and imaginations of New Zealanders. Hs new book Always Song In Water explores… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Elliot Higgins is the founder of investigative journalism website Bellingcat which specializes in fact-checking and open-source intelligence gathered from social media. The site has grown from a 2012… Read more Audio

10:30 AM.From the slums of Havana to the world's greatest stages, acclaimed ballet dancer and choreographer Carlos Acosta has led an extraordinary life. He has danced with the English National Ballet, National… Read more Video, Audio

10:06 AM.When female led and focused film Thelma & Louise came out in 1991, actress Geena Davis hoped that it marked a shift towards gender equality in Hollywood. But by 2004 the Academy award winner had… Read more Audio

9:07 AM.Nature and travel writer Robert Macfarlane grew up in coal country, just next to limestone country. What was underground defined what was up above for him from a very young age. His new book Underland… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.For most of us, device overuse does not meet all of the above conditions so does not qualify as an addiction, according to behavioural sociologist Nir Eyal. He tells Kim Hil the myth that we're all… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.An impeachment inquiry is underway in the United States after ongoing concerns were raised about a potential "coverup" of alleged interaction between President Trump and the Ukrainian… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Like many young New Zealanders, aspiring architect Pete Bossley jumped on a plane and headed off for a year or two of travel. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:04 AM.The Australian scientist, writer, explorer and environmental activist Tim Flannery is passionate about climate change, and how to stop it. But he's fed up of the disconnect between the politicians'… Read more Audio

10:05 AM.He's become the academic poster boy of the intermittent fasting movement. Professor Valter Longo's work on how the human body behaves when we deprive it of energy has inspired a range of diet books… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Novelist, travel writer and academic, Sarah Moss is earning rave reviews for her latest novel Ghost Wall. It's been described as a Brexit-inspired parable, populated by characters plotting a path… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.The English singer-songwriter Lloyd Cole came to fame in the 1980s with his band The Commotions, releasing a string of catchy, crafted hits like Perfect Skin, Rattlesnakes and Lost Weekend. Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Professor Nicholas Wareham is a British epidemiologist from the University of Cambridge who researches obesity, diabetes, and other metabolic disorders. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.A new interstellar comet some 20 kilometres wide and trailing gas has recently been spotted entering our solar system. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Data scientist Hadley Wickham is developing open source ways to help people collect and analyse the information that surrounds us every day. He's yet to meet a data set he doesn't like and loves… Read more Audio

11:08 AM.In 'Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica' science journalist Rebecca Priestley tells the story of her visits to the 'wide white continent' that started in 2011. With a lifelong interest in the place, a… Read more Audio

10:33 AM.Best selling Scottish crime writer Val McDermid has sold more than 15 million copies of her work worldwide. She's arrived in New Zealand to take up a role as a visiting Professor of Scottish Studies… Read more Audio