Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:10 AM.Comedian, actor, and author David Downs honestly and humourously shared his battle with lymphoma in his popular column 'A Mild Touch of the Cancer' Unfortunately his treatment failed and after 12… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.This week it was announced that all three MasterChef Australia judges Matt Preston, Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris will be leaving the show after a contract dispute. Calombaris has also been under… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Edo de Waart began his career as an Assistant Conductor to Leonard Bernstein and is now a world authority on Beethoven. Frank Zappa has called him "the Paul McCartney of classical music". He is Music… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Archaeologist David Veart says the failure of heritage protection legislation has caused the situation at Ihumātao and while we get upset about the destruction of other people's heritage we've managed… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:04 AM.In 2017, author Elspeth Sandys travelled to China with other family members to mark the 90th anniversary of her cousin Rewi Alley's arrival in Shanghai. The book she wrote about that journey is called… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Dr Florian Graichen is Science Leader, Biopolymers and Chemicals, at Scion in Rotorua. Scion is a Crown research institute that specialises in research and technology development for the forestry and… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Jamie Morton was horrified to discover his father had written very explicit and very bad erotic fiction under the nom-de -porn Rocky Flintstone. He enlisted his friends - James Cooper and Radio 1 host… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Last year Kiwi adventurer Scott Donaldson achieved a world first, crossing 2200 km of the Tasman Sea in a kayak solo. Over 61 days he battled 'frisky' sharks, massive ocean swells, and physical and… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:15 AM.MPs Peeni Henare and Willy Jackson will be heading to Ihumatao in South Auckland today, to listen to, and speak with, protestors on the site of land they consider sacred. Until very recently the… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Artist Joseph Michael is best known for his full-scale 360° projection of an iceberg onto the Auckland War Museum in 2017. Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Justin Pemberton started his career directing music videos and music television, before setting up his own documentary production company in his 20s with fellow filmmakers. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Free Theatre Christchurch is an experimental performance company established by staff and students at Canterbury University in 1979 under the guidance of recent German arrival Peter Falkenberg. Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.A biography of Sir Ernest Hyam Davis - brewery baron, anti-prohibitionist, Mayor of Auckland and Newmarket, and passionate sailor and philanthropist among many other roles - has just been released. Read more Audio

9:35 AM.In less than two years, the deaths of up to 80 New Zealanders have been attributed to synthetic cannabis (known more accurately as synthetic cannabinoids). Yet currently little is known about why they… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Four years ago, celebrated playwright Victor Rodger wrote Club Paradiso for its main star, actor Robbie Magasiva. Robbie plays Q, a criminal on the run who bursts into a bar, covered in blood, high on… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Iranian authorities have reportedly seized two vessels, one British-flagged and the Liberia-flagged, in the Strait of Hormuz overnight. Read more Audio

8:40 AM.The latest Ebola outbreak, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been declared a "public health emergency of international concern" by the World Health Organization. Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Canada is heading toward a general election on October 21 and the two main opponents are neck and neck. Read more Audio

11:40 AM.The Christchurch Arts Festival is about to kick-off (July 26 - August 4th) and this year it has a different emphasis: it will focus on Christchurch artists rather than a roster of international… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Helen Russell is a British journalist, bestselling author and speaker. Formerly the editor of marieclaire.co.uk, Helen has worked as a correspondent for The Guardian, as well as writing a longstanding… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.In December 1968 a 22-year-old David Bowie penned what is now one of his most loved songs, 'Space Oddity'. It offered a dystopian counter-image to the overwhelming global enthusiasm for space… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Marianne Schultz danced professionally in New York as a member of Laura Dean Dancers and independent choreographers. After relocating to New Zealand she worked as dancer/teacher/rehearsal director… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Eric Cornell is an American physicist who, with Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001 for creating a new ultracold state of matter, the so-called Bose-Einstein… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.50 years ago humans landed on the moon for the first time and now footage from the Apollo missions has been crafted together in a documentary, Apollo: Missions To The Moon, which will screen on the… Read more Audio, Gallery