All episodes
Saturday, 2 February 2019
- 8:10 Professor Richard Sullivan - A global view of cancer treatment
- 9:05 Nancy Gertner - An 'unrepentant advocate' for civil liberties
- 9:40 Gregory Burke - Returning to head Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- 10:06 Barrie Kosky - Sending Magic Flute to Auckland Arts Festival
- 11:06 Professor Richard Whitman - Brexit fallout for Aotearoa
- 11:40 Ian Bruce: The Correspondents return to WOMAD
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 2 February 2019
Saturday, 26 January 2019
- 8:13 Barbara Kingsolver - Unsheltered
- 9:06 UK criminologist David Best on addiction recovery in prisons
- 9:43 Donna Rutherford - Award-winning story draws on Celtic folklore
- 10:10 JP Pomare - Call Me Evie
- 11:07 Peter White - Taking a genetics fight to the Aussie cane toad
- 11:20 Sharon Van Etten on leaving New York, motherhood and new album Remind Me Tomorrow
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 26 January 2019
Saturday, 22 December 2018
- 8:12 Simon Denny - A year of The Founder's Paradox
- 9:06 Jed Mercurio - Writer of Bodyguard and Line of Duty
- 9:40 Zoe George - Women and sport, 2018
- 10:05 Robyn - New album: Honey
- 10:40 Leah McFall: is the role of royal women to have babies, look good and keep quiet?
- 11:05 Rose Matafeo - comedienne extraordinaire
- 11:40 Jordan Rondel - beyond Christmas cake
Saturday, 15 December 2018
- 8:09 Anne Perkins - BREXIT latest
- 8:35 Paula Morris - Bonjour Menton
- 9:04 Professor Mohamad Abdalla - Muslim in Australia
- 9:35 MasterChef's Matt Preston: sharp-dressed foodie
- 10:04 Debs Martin - Pelorus Sound long-tailed bat project
- 10:20 Dr Mike Murphy - Developing anti-oxidants that fight aging
- 11:04 The best books of 2018
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 15 December 2018
Saturday, 8 December 2018
- 8:10 Damon Kitney - The real James Packer
- 9:08 David Grann - The story of Henry Worsley
- 10:07 Sally Magnusson - Iceland's slavery history
- 10:41 Doug Wilson - The Aging Revolution
- 11:05 Harry Horton - US politics update
- 11:15 Kalisolaite 'Uhila - Performance artist heads to Honolulu Biennial
- 11:41 Graeme Cairns - Laird of Hamilton
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 8 December 2018
Saturday, 1 December 2018
- 8:09 Hamish McKenzie - The Tesla Revolution
- 9:09 Sir Malcolm Grant - Billion-dollar health budget
- 9:40 Joanne Pirrie: putting the dance into WOMAD
- 10:05 Steve Murphy and Javier Pena - The Narcos who helped capture Pablo Escobar
- 10:35 Calexit: 'Yes California' head Marcus Ruiz Evans on independent California
- 11:04 Author Tammy Robinson: 'The cliches are right, life is short'
- 11:40 Kate Camp - Robert Scott and The Worst Journey in the World
- 11:59 Listener feedback for Saturday Morning 1 December 2018
Saturday, 24 November 2018
- 8:09 Dr Jeffrey Ross - The next frontier of cancer treatment
- 9:06 Cissy Rock - Pride parade wrangle
- 9:30 Mary Robinson - Climate Justice
- 10:04 Rosanne Cash - She Remembers Everything
- 10:35 Elizabeth Denham - Fighting data crime
- 11:04 Dr Tony Fernando - Compassion in medicine
- 11:45 Sarah Ross - The Pulter Project
- 11:55 Listener feedback
Saturday, 17 November 2018
- 8:10 Damian Skinner - Profile of artist Theo Schoon
- 9:07 Kerry-Anne Walsh on the Pauline Hanson phenomenon
- 9:42 Professor Tim Bale - Breaking on Brexit
- 10:02 Peter FitzSimons - Mutiny on the Bounty
- 10:42 Mary Kisler - Exhibitions in Europe
- 11:06 Ben Branson: creator of the world's first distilled non-alcoholic spirit
- 11:40 Steve Braunias - The best of The Friday Poem
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 17 November 2018
Saturday, 10 November 2018
- 8:12 Dr Jonathan Lundgren - Reforming food production
- 9:06 Bryce Langston - The beauty of tiny houses
- 9:45 Arthur Tompkins - Art crime
- 10:04 Jeremy Salmond - Another honour for top heritage architect
- 10:35 Logan Williams - Taking the fight to Didymo is What Logan Did
- 11:04 Angelique Kidjo: Diva from Benin
- 11:59 Listener feedback
Saturday, 3 November 2018
- 8:12 Diana Noonan - The children of Daulatdia brothel
- 8:45 Zane Wedding: 'Competitive tree climbing is like ballet'
- 9:08 Peter Conradi - The King's War
- 9:40 Ruth Buchanan and Adriano Pedrosa - Walters Prize 2018
- 10:07 Robert Tauxe - Hidden dangers in our food
- 10:42 Wreckless Eric - From The Whole Wide World to underground
- 11:06 Lee Child - Author of Jack Reacher super-series
Saturday, 27 October 2018
- 8:09 Tim Chapman - Restorative justice in Northern Ireland
- 9:06 Raymond Antrobus - Poetry and perseverance
- 9:30 Jonathan Simon - Fraud fears in US mid-terms
- 10:04 Penny Junor - Royal biographer takes on the Queen's corgis
- 10:40 Anthony Aguirre - The origin of order in the universe
- 11:04 Damien Dempsey - Headlining NZ Irish Festival
- 11:30 Listener Feedback for 27 October
Saturday, 20 October 2018
- 8:10 Eric Idle - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- 9:07 Joanne Drayton - Hudson & Halls: The Food of Love
- 9:35 Lucy Hawking - Brief Answers to the Big Questions
- 10:07 Richard Roberts - Dunedin Airport takes off
- 10:34 Anna Serner - CEO of Swedish Film Institute
- 11:07 Zoya Patel - A search for belonging
- 11:35 Peta Siulepa - Samoana Jazz Festival celebrates Mavis Rivers
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 20 October 2018
Saturday, 13 October 2018
- 8:10 Professor Sarah Harper - The ageing population
- 9:08 Doireann Ní Ghríofa - Poems in Irish and English
- 9:28 Robin Green - The Only Girl
- 10:08 Shivshankar Menon - Shifting sands of geopolitics
- 10:32 Philip Temple - The life of Maurice Shadbolt
- 11:05 Professor Tim Flannery - Europe's strange backstory
- 11:38 Children's Books with Kate De Goldi
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 13 October 2018
Saturday, 6 October 2018
- 8:13 Ruth Busch - Bronx-born campaigner for better family law
- 9:08 I Have Loved Me a Man - Biography of Mika Haka, queer performance artist, released
- 9:30 David Shiner - One of the world's top clowns
- 10:08 Brett Kavanaugh update with Simon Marks
- 10:15 Mike Sansom and Cathy O'Callaghan
- 10:47 Aaron McDonald - New Zealand missing the boat on blockchain
- 11:06 Anika Moa - Sixth studio album and a 'bun in the oven'
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 6 October 2018
Saturday, 29 September 2018
- 8:09 Jeanne Marie Laskas - Letters To Obama
- 9:06 Songwriter Billy Bragg to play three Auckland shows
- 9:40 Charles Lane - The Kavanaugh hearings
- 10:04 Cult of personality? Myers-Briggs and the 'cosmic laboratory of baby training'
- 11:04 Isabelle Weston - The re-imagining of Britten Stables
- 11:25 Harry Lyon - To the Sea
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 29 September 2018
Saturday, 22 September 2018
- 8:09 Mandy Whyte - rescuing my son from meth addiction
- 9:06 Tom Wright - Author of Billion Dollar Whale
- 9:35 Christina Hoff Sommers: contemporary feminism portrays women as victims
- 10:04 Dame Suzie Moncrieff - To Russia with WOW
- 10:35 Brett Cowan - New chief scientist at ESR
- 11:04 Max Rashbrooke - Government for the Public Good
- 11:45 Sophie Barker - Albatross return to Otago
- 11:55 Saturday Morning feedback for 22 September 2018
Saturday, 15 September 2018
- 8:12 Harry Horton - Hurricane Florence Update
- 8:20 Professor Robert Webster - author of Flu Hunter
- 9:08 Dame Louise Casey - Courting controversy in the public service
- 10:07 Bruce Mahalski - Bone artist
- 10:34 Dr Andrew Das - Investigating the role of epigenetics in cancer
- 11:06 Jo McColl - A life at Unity Books
- 11:48 Kate Camp
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 15 September 2018
Saturday, 8 September 2018
- 8:09 Paul Matheson - Nelson hosts 1st ABs 2018 home test match
- 8:15 John Tamihere - Leading the fight on behalf of urban Māori
- 8:50 John Everiss - International Drive Your Studebaker Day
- 9:04 Byron Reese - The Fourth Age
- 9:40 Nicholas Tampio: children need to learn in the real world, not the virtual one
- 10:04 Amanda Jones - Cannabis tea producer based in California
- 10:30 Phillip Barker - The edge of reason
- 10:44 Richard Clayderman - World superstar of piano
- 11:04 Craig Callender - What is time?
- 11:30 Tandi Wright - Playing a detective on Alibi
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 8 September 2018
Saturday, 1 September 2018
- 8:12 Chessie Henry - Canterbury earthquakes and a family memoir
- 8:44 Surviving necrotising fasciitis: the 'flesh-eating' disease
- 9:08 Dr Michio Kaku - theoretical physicist
- 9:26 Robin Robertson - Scottish poet
- 10:07 Euan Macleod - Painter's major exhibition opens at Pataka
- 10:40 Sonya Renee Taylor: radical self-love and accepting every body
- 11:06 Dudley Benson - An album and labour of love called Zealandia
Saturday, 25 August 2018
- 8:12 Rebecca Peters - The world's foremost gun control activist
- 9:07 Chelsea Manning - Traitor or hero?
- 9:34 Lizzie Marvelly - Growing up feminist in Aotearoa
- 10:07 Dr Joshu Mountjoy - local voice on new series Drain the Ocean
- 10:42 Amber Rose - Chef celebrates wild food in her new cookbook
- 11:07 Denise Mina - The story of a Scottish serial killer
- 11:42 David Marr - Political shenanigans in Australia
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 25 August 2018
Saturday, 18 August 2018
- 8:09 Theresa May unlikely to last year, says Brexiteer Nigel Farage
- 8:30 Dane Mitchell - Taking Post Hoc to La Biennale di Venezia
- 9:05 Jenny Wheeler - the death of Warwick Roger
- 9:10 Geoff McDonald - Mental health at work
- 9:35 Professor Deanne Williams - Looking for Shakespeare's Girls
- 10:04 David Neiwert - The Rise of the Radical Right
- 10:40 Dr Doug Wilson - The latest in longevity
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 18 August 2018
- 12:00 Neil and Liam Finn on their new album Lightsleeper
Saturday, 11 August 2018
- 8:11 Gillian Triggs - Aussie battler for human rights
- 9:10 Cornel West - Confronting a polarised world
- 9:41 Patrick Pound - Collection artist
- 10:07 Ed Husain - Countering radical Islam
- 10:40 Venus Envy: Are we there yet over generations?
- 11:06 Lisa Brown - What is aerospace medicine?
- 11:40 Linda Burgess - 1970s WAGS take on the All Blacks
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 11 August 2018
Saturday, 4 August 2018
- 8:09 Nigel Pascoe QC - high-profile UK lawyer, actor and playwright
- 8:35 Franca Ronchese - The latest science on allergic reactions
- 9:06 Paora Joseph - The pain of suicide for whanau in Maui's Hook
- 9:35 Lucy Saunders - Bringing healthy streets to cities
- 10:04 Mike McCormack - Prize-winning novel, Solar Bones
- 10:40 Venus Envy Podcast: Are We There Yet in the sex industry?
- 11:04 Hollie McNish - Author of 'Nobody Told Me'
- 11:30 Andre Upston - RNZ's own music-mixing legend
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 4 August 2018
Saturday, 28 July 2018
- 8:12 Caitlin McGee - A general election in Cambodia
- 8:42 Anna Boyiazis - World Press photographer
- 9:07 Craig Heatley - Sky TV Founder and rich-lister
- 9:32 Kirsty Gunn - prize-winning author publishes new novel
- 10:07 Debra Granik - Director of Leave No Trace
- 10:32 Venus Envy - Are we there yet in the legal profession?
- 11:07 Madeleine Chapman - The story of Steven Adams
- 11:38 Sid Sahrawat - Top Auckland chef
Saturday, 21 July 2018
- 8:12 Tim McCormack - International humanitarian law expert
- 9:07 Jane Fonda on acting and activism
- 9:34 Sam Brooks - Award-winning playwright
- 10:07 Irvine Welsh - Dead Men's Trousers and the Trainspotting generation
- 10:41 Soda Jerk - Australian art duo's new film, Terror Nullius
- 11:06 Venus Envy - Are we there yet in the world of creative arts?
- 11:29 Tami Neilson - Award-winning country singer
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 21 July 2018