Summer Weekends Podcast Options

9:30 AM.The race is on in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf, where storms and sea swells are threatening an important Maori archaeological site on Otata in the Noises Group of islands. The landowners and local Ngai Tai… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:06 AM.Expat Kiwi journalist Thomas Heaton is helping the Kathmandu Post in Nepal to embrace the online opportunities now available to newspapers. Officially he's the Deputy culture and arts editor but he's… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Dunedin's Taiaroa Head is the only mainland breeding site of this magnificent bird so there is a lot at stake come breeding season. The first of this year's eggs has just hatched. But the news of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:40 AM.Neville Blackmore is senior search and rescuce officer and watch leader at the Rescue Coordination Centre. The centre takes care of all major maritime and aviation search and rescue missions, and… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Lead poisoning is one of the biggest threats to New Zealand's ultra curious alpine parrot which is now nationally endangered with only an estimated 5,000 left. One of the Clown of the Alps' main… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Cecilia Bembibre is on a mission to save a part of our heritage that is often forgotten, or not thought of - the smell of things. That delicious smell of an old book through to the scent of a person… Read more Audio

11:48 AM.We return to Nepal now - last week Lynn Freeman was on safari, this time she's exploring some of the increasing number of accommodation options available to visitors. Not the increasing number of high… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:35 AM.For today's independent bookseller we're heading to a tiny shop in a tiny town in the Mackenzie District of Canterbury. Read more Audio

11:15 AM.Broadway start Joshua Henry has been in New Zealand inspiring young people hoping to make it in the world of musical theatre at the Christchurch International Musical Theatre Summer School. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Self-described 'bird nerd' Elizabeth Werner is working to eradicate predators in her Wellington neighbourhood. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

10:25 AM.Our music feature today is about the songs that have been the voice of protest all over the world. Our guest is Matariki Williams - curator of Matauranga Maori at Te Papa Museum in Wellington.  Read more Audio

10:06 AM.She beat the odds of not only making the New Zealand team but defying a badly injured knee to take home a bronze medal at the 2018 Gold coast Commonwealth Games. Now women's boxer Troy Garton has her… Read more Audio

9:06 AM.After a breakdown eight years ago, Frank Jansen decided he'd never work in an office again. He now creates gardens for people with mobility or sensory issues and is head gardener at Katherine… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

9:06 AM.It is without doubt one of the most haunting of our bird calls - that of the North Island kokako, less poetically also known as the blue-wattled crow. Ecologist and kokako specialist Dave Bryden is… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:45 AM.A kea with lead poisoning, seven owls and just as many kereru, a baby kingfisher and an underweight spoonbill are among the summer patients at Christchurch's Wildlife Hospital, during its busiest time… Read more Audio, Gallery

8:30 AM.Today for our series on lifesavers we're talking to Myles Taylor from Fire and Emergency New Zealand. Myles is the principal rural fire officer in Northland - where a total fire ban was put in place… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.After the death of UK backpacker Grace Millane in 2018, award-winning investigative reporter Kirsty Johnson expressed her anger for the first time. Becoming better acquainted with grief makes crime… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.We speak to RNZ Pacific reporter Jamie Tahana about the impact of the storm, and where it's headed next. Read more Audio

11:45 AM.The 2010s have been declared the decade of leggings. That was coined by US fashion writer Maya Singer in which she says about half of New York women seem to be wearing them out and about not just in… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:40 AM.For today's trip around booksellers of the country, we head to Nelson, to Volume and speak to Stella Chrystostomou. Read more Audio

11:20 AM.New Zealand Summer Olympic karate hopeful Andrea Anacan learnt the martial art in part to save herself if she was kidnapped when her family was still living in the Phillippines.  Read more Audio

11:04 AM.They make fishbones out of toothpicks, potato chips from the seeds of capsicums - can turn almost any object into something that can be used in the tiny worlds they create. Miniature makers are people… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:15 AM.Now to our music feature, and this time we're crossing the ditch to Australia to speak to a ska band with a difference - namely its sheer size.  Read more Video, Audio

10:05 AM.Samantha Hughes is a young designer who's identified a need in the healthcare system for a new approach to designing equipment that's often impractical.  Read more Audio