Saturday Morning Podcast Options

8:15 AM.Dr Vaughan C. Turekian is the Executive Director of the Policy and Global Affairs Division (PGA) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. He also serves as an honorary… Read more Audio

11:40 AM.Kate Camp is the author of six collections of poetry published by Victoria University Press, the most recent of which is The internet of things (2017). She's won the New Zealand Book Award for The… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Luke Wright is a poet, performer, publisher, curator and broadcaster. He has written and performed nine spoken word shows and two verse plays, including The Toll, Frankie Vah, and What I Learned from… Read more Video, Audio

10:40 AM.Many years ago, a 13-year-old girl went missing in California. In the early 2000s, a woman turned up claiming to be her.  Right away there were things about the woman and her story seemed off. To help… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.The exhibition From the Shore considers the influence of Māori filmmakers Barry Barclay and Merata Mita on a current generation of artists, specifically those working with moving image.  Read more Audio, Gallery

9:25 AM.British author Sarah Perry has followed up her number-one bestseller The Essex Serpent ​with a novel called Melmoth. She talks to Kim Hill about faith, illness, moral courage and her taste for the… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Norah Jones first emerged on the world stage with the 2002 release of Come Away With Me. Since then, Jones has sold 50 million albums worldwide and become a nine-time Grammy-winner. She's released a… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Margaret Long developed a life-changing passion for gardening 30 years ago after a garden tour of the UK, followed by numerous local visits and the development of her own garden in Canterbury, known… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:12 AM.Twenty-five years ago, a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi was shot down over an airport in Rwanda. The event marked the beginning of a genocide in which an estimated one million… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Caroline Easther spins a few of her favourite tunes and talks to Kim Hill about her new album, Lucky. Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Renee Liang is a second-generation Chinese Kiwi poet, playwright, paediatrician, medical researcher and fiction writer, who was appointed a Member of the NZ Order of Merit for services to the arts… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Canadian Writer and academic David Chariandy has written two critically received novels. Brother, published in 2017, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction prize, the Toronto Book Award and was named a… Read more Audio

9:25 AM.Tour manager Ian Jorgensen has put together the intimate photographs he took on the tour of the Finns, their crew and the communities they visited in the book Where's My Room: The Neil and Liam Finn… Read more Video, Audio

9:06 AM.'Slutty' is a word that’s historically been used as an insult, but self-styled 'sexpert' Karley Sciortino wants to reclaim it. Sciortino fronts the VICE TV series Slutever, which the New York Times… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.British novellist and screenwriter Ian McEwan has been listed by The Times as amongst "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and he's received numerous awards and accolades for his work… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Alex Thomson is the longest-serving on-screen journalist at Britain's C4 News since the channel began. In more than 25 years he's covered over 20 wars; led major investigations and continues to front… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Actor and playwright Rebecca Vaughan has appeared in film, television and on stage. her celebrated solo shows with colleague Elton Townend-Jones include Austen's Women, Dalloway and Jane Eyre: An… Read more Audio

11:04 AM.Canadian Vicki Saunders is an entreprenuer, mentor and business advisor, and the founder of SheEO, an organisation that raises funding to help grow female-run businesses. The SheEO system sees 500… Read more Audio

10:40 AM.A team of ESR scientists have recently received New Zealand's most valuable science prize for the development of STRmix - scientific software that is used to interpret DNA material from a crime scene… Read more Audio

10:04 AM.Carl Shuker is a former editor at the British Medical Journal and lives in Wellington. He's the author of four novels - The Method Actors (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005), winner of the Prize in Modern… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Anne Perkins is a political commentator, writer and broadcaster, and the former deputy political editor of The Guardian. She will talk to Kim about a week in which Theresa May had to once more dash to… Read more Audio

9:04 AM.Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels, including Home Fire which won the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction, and was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker. She is a reviewer and columnist for The… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Professor Mohamad Abdalla is one of Australia's most prominent Muslim leaders. Over the last 15 years, he played a leading role in establishing Islamic Studies (Research and Teaching) as an academic… Read more Audio