Saturday Morning Podcast Options

10:05 AM.Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Mary earned her Master's degree in Art History and Italian at the University of… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:35 AM.Dr Helen Jacobi was appointed the first female Vicar of Auckland's St Matthew in the City in 2014. In 2019, she will host the annual International Network of Inner City Churches 2019 Meeting, an event… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Anne Michaels is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries. Her books have garnered dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize, the… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.One of the world’s most famous yoga masters was to some a beloved teacher and a guide to enlightenment. To others, he was a sexual predator and a bully. Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Illinois-born Dr Dean Peterson joined Te Papa in 2016 and has spent three years developing the museum's largest redevelopment since it opened - Te Taiao Nature exhibition space, which will be open to… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.In the middle of Glastonbury sat an event so opulent and extravagant that it was reminiscent of the Las Vegas Strip. It was butterfly trainers, acrobatic strippers and Fat Boy Slim dressed as a bumble… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:05 AM.Dr Lisa Sanders is an internist on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine where she teaches topics related to clinical reasoning and diagnosis to both medical students and residents. Sanders… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.Paul Hunt became New Zealand's Chief Human Rights Commissioner in January. He is a human rights advocate, lawyer and academic who has lived and worked in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the South… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Artemis Cooper is the author and co-editor of a wide of non-fiction titles including three major biographies: on the author, scholar and adventurer Patrick Leigh Fermor, novelist and wife of Sir… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.In the wake of the Mueller Report, an "impeachment enquiry" into American president Donald Trump is the wisest course of action, according to political columnist and author Jonathan… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Elizabeth Calder emigrated from England to NZ with her family in 1949 and returned in 1958 after graduating with a BA in English literature from the University of Canterbury. This week she was awarded… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.John Reynolds is one of New Zealand's foremost artists. For several years he has been working on a body of work that examines the real-life disappearance of Colin McCahon on the eve of the exhibition… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:04 AM.Christina Thompson is the editor of Harvard Review and the author of Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story, which was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.In 2008 Dot Kettle and her partner Georgia Richards ditched their Wellington city jobs for a 42ha property in the Dove Valley in the Tasman region, and began growing peonies. Their business has… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Former refugee Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran in 1978 and raised in the Greater Los Angeles area. Her debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects (2007) was a New York Times Editor's Choice… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.English writer Oobah Butler shot to infamy last year after he managed to turn the garden shed he lived in into TripAdvisor's top-rated London restaurant – by creating a fake website and getting his… Read more Video, Audio

8:12 AM.In 2004 former nun Monica Hingston took a stand against her second cousin Cardinal George Pell, by making public a letter urging him to reconsider his support of the Vatican's declaration that… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:04 AM.Gretchen Albrecht is one of New Zealand's most prominent painters. A forerunner of the women's art movement, Albrecht's work of the 1960s and 70s anticipated key aspects of feminist art practice. Art… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:40 AM.To 'look' like a skater is still a badge of honour even for a "grey-haired dad with a bad knee", says writer and skateboarder Max Olijnyk. He tells Kim Hill why, in his 40s, he's still completely… Read more Video, Audio

10:04 AM.Maria Tumarkin is an Australian author, cultural historian and professor of writing at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of four critically-acclaimed books of ideas including Otherland… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.Ella Al-Shamahi is an archaeologist, palaeoanthropologist and Neanderthal specialist, and also a stand-up comic. She almost exclusively works "in places hard to get insurance" including Iraq and… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Novelist, playwright and opera director, Jenny Erpenbeck is one of Europe's major literary voices. Born in East Berlin in 1967, she is the author of seven works of fiction, including The Book of Words… Read more Audio