All episodes
Saturday, 8 June 2024
- 8:10 Dennis and Judy Shepard: Harnessing grief to fight gay hate crime
- 9:05 Prof Beth Linker: In defence of slouching
- 9:40 The first 'millennial saint'
- 10:00 Tom Burgis: How the mega-rich warp the truth
- 10:35 Liam Dann: Inflation vs interest rates
- 11:05 Renee Gracie: From Bathurst to OnlyFans and back
- 11:35 World Choir Games bring 11,000 singers to Auckland
- 12:00 Saturday morning listener feedback for June 8th 2024
Saturday, 1 June 2024
- 8:10 The forgotten women's football world cup
- 8:40 Julia Whaipooti: Budget does not fulfil te Tiriti obligations
- 9:05 Prof Anna Wirz-Justice: Why winter makes us SAD and how light can help
- 9:30 Dr Christos Christou: the state of humanitarianism
- 10:05 Matt Heath: learning to love your own life
- 10:45 Historic swarm of cicadas disrupting the peace, and food chain
- 11:05 Trump the felon: what's next for the Republican party?
- 11:15 Max Miller: Tasting history one recipe at a time
- 11:40 Gore's Gold Guitars
Saturday, 25 May 2024
- 8:10 Should all drugs be decriminalised?
- 8:50 Blooming magic: Toby de Lacey - the Chelsea Flower Show
- 9:05 Matt Brown: What if Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis debated God
- 9:35 Opera director Simon Phillips: A new spin on 'Le comte Ory'
- 10:05 Pasi Vainikka: The next step in the food revolution
- 10:40 Aussie Lego Masters bring their RELICS exhibition to Auckland
- 11:05 Jake Adelstein: A unique view into Japan's seedy underbelly
- 11:25 The website revealing how much jobs might pay
- 11:40 Kate De Goldi: reading for pleasure
Saturday, 18 May 2024
- 8:10 New Caledonia unrest explained
- 8:35 Jonathan Rauch: Allowing free speech
- 9:05 Connie Walker: Stolen, murdered and ignored, Indigenous women
- 9:30 Vincent Deary: Why rest is vital to beat burnout
- 10:05 Joy Womack: the American ballerina who danced for Russia
- 10:45 Singer Hollie Smith unveils her debut art exhibition
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Dame Jane Campion
- 12:00 Saturday morning listener feedback
Saturday, 11 May 2024
- 8:10 Climate change from a wild animal's point of view: Adam Welz
- 9:05 Jordan van den Berg: the renters' Robin Hood
- 9:30 Madison Nonoa: singing her way from the Waikato to European opera houses
- 10:05 India's elections and the cost of colonialism: Dr Sashi Tharoor
- 10:45 The case for living on Mars
- 11:05 Nazeem Hussain: the totally normal comedian
- 11:35 Framing a life: Ans Westra
Saturday, 4 May 2024
- 8:10 The sinister side of the man who saved Rwanda: Michela Wrong
- 8:45 John Adams: stopping the Stonehenge road tunnel
- 9:05 Grace Blakeley: Vulture Capitalism
- 9:45 Edible Gardener Kath Irvine: everything asparagus
- 10:10 A curse and a genetic code: PM's Science Prize winners
- 11:05 Finn McCahon-Jones: letters between best friends
- 11:30 Colour instinct: the art of personal colour analysis
- 12:00 Saturday Morning feedback for 4th May 2024
Saturday, 27 April 2024
- 8:12 How to tell if your preschooler is autistic
- 8:50 Dr Matt Baker: en garde for the Olympics
- 9:10 Glenn Colquhoun: 'It's well past time Pākeha sung to Māori'
- 10:05 Alexi Mostrous: Who Trolled Amber?
- 10:45 Graham Leonard: New Zealand's B-list volcanoes
- 11:05 Christian Lewis: Finding Hildasay
- 11:40 Shaun Higgins: the dawn of NZ photography
Saturday, 20 April 2024
- 8:12 The burden of long covid
- 9:05 Elizabeth Kolbert: The A to Z of climate change
- 9:35 Carrie Sun: Private Equity memoir explores dark side of wealth
- 10:05 Grace Millane: New film The Lie explores shocking case
- 10:40 Liam Dann: are we witnessing the death of paper money?
- 11:05 Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku: a story of bravery
- 11:45 Kate De Goldi: reading for pleasure
- 12:00 Saturday morning feedback
Saturday, 13 April 2024
- 8:14 Mark Staufer and Neil Harding: The Lost Boys of Dilworth
- 9:05 Bonnie Garmus: how a bad day at the office sparked a glittering new career
- 9:40 Alice Taylor's adventures in cakeland
- 10:05 Prof Karen Willcox: The predictive power of digital twins
- 10:40 Prof Tim Ryley: the seaplane rises again
- 11:05 Deborah Frances-White: The Guilty Feminist
- 11:40 Leah McFall: books my friends borrowed and never returned
- 12:00 Saturday Morning listener feedback
Saturday, 6 April 2024
- 8:10 Nathan Thrall - A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
- 9:08 Simon Young - from Pickering to Pitcairn mayor
- 9:14 On a mission to change the 'archaic' 9 to 5 for parents
- 9:45 'Tepid response' to Oppenheimer in Japan
- 10:07 Richard Shaw: The Unsettled
- 10:40 Self-confessed taphophile: Deborah Challinor
- 11:05 Jason Gunn - playing favourites
Saturday, 30 March 2024
- 8:10 The need for a holistic approach to dementia
- 9:05 Viet Thanh Nguyen on being Vietnamese and American
- 9:40 Baron Hasselhoff's: the art and craft of great chocolate
- 10:05 Claire Keegan: Small Things Like These
- 10:35 Girls State: Imagining a world run by young women
- 11:05 Gwyneth Hughes: Mr Bates vs The Post Office
- 11:40 Kate De Goldi: reading for pleasure
Saturday, 23 March 2024
- 8:10 Prof Chris Barratt: male contraceptive pill enters human trials
- 8:10 Catherine, Princess of Wales announces she has cancer
- 8:35 Caro Claire Burke: The rise of #Tradwife social influencers
- 9:05 Escaping Utopia: What it takes to break free from Gloriavale
- 10:05 Kathy Lette: The Revenge Club
- 10:40 Jamey Stutz: Dating rocks in Antarctica
- 11:07 Fearless fighter for marginalised New Zealanders
- 11:40 Aboriginal artist and activist Richard Bell
Saturday, 16 March 2024
- 8:10 Freebirth: Why women are choosing to birth alone
- 8:45 Is there a good way to tell someone they're losing their job?
- 9:05 Gretchen Daily: the cost of not valuing nature
- 9:40 Lulu Wang examines the cultural class divide in her TV series Expats
- 10:05 Liam Dann: How money works and why it matters
- 10:40 Kath Irvine: how to prep your garden to feed you through winter
- 11:05 Ann Patchett: Tom Lake
- 11:45 Australian jazz legend James Morrison
- 12:00 Saturday morning listener feedback
Saturday, 9 March 2024
- 8:10 Aliya Danzeisen: becoming Muslim
- 9:05 Lee Tamahori and Robin Scholes: The Convert
- 9:25 Rolling out big ideas: Sir Geoff Mulgan and James Plunkett
- 10:05 Angélique Kidjo: genre-defying music superstar
- 10:40 Volcanologist Graham Leonard: all about ash
- 11:05 Playing favourites with James Shaw
- 12:00 Saturday morning Listener feed back
Saturday, 2 March 2024
- 8:10 Dr Judith Mackay: Tobacco industry critic on NZ's fight for control
- 8:45 John Sharp: Why IVF is at risk in post-Roe America
- 9:07 Colum McCann and Diane Foley: 'American Mother'
- 9:35 Photographer Fiona Amundsen: Nuclear (in)visibility
- 10:05 AC Grayling: Who owns the Moon?
- 10:40 Kowtow founder Gosia Piatek
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
- 12:00 Feedback for Saturday Morning March 2nd 2024
- 12:10 Aotearoa's long history with wool and blankets
Saturday, 24 February 2024
- 8:10 Oleksandra Matviichuk: Fighting for peace in Ukraine
- 8:45 Tuning out tinnitus with Dr Fabrice Bardy
- 9:05 Emily Nagoski: how couples create a lasting sexual connection
- 9:45 Documentary filmmaker Benoit Lalande: surfing in Africa
- 10:05 Sue Egersdorff: the benefits of intergenerational care
- 10:40 Alexander James Holloway: making fake fighting look real
- 11:05 Death by talons - did an owl frame a husband for murder?
- 11:40 Kate De Goldi: reading for pleasure
- 12:00 Listener feedback for 24 February 2024
Saturday, 17 February 2024
- 8:10 Paris Marx: tech won't save us
- 8:40 Iceland volcano - research: magma's mammoth flow before eruptions
- 9:05 Michaeleen Doucleff: why kids need less 'parenting'
- 9:05 Europe correspondent Thomas Sparrow on reports of Russian dissident's death
- 9:40 Danyl McLauchlan explores Judith Butler's philosophy on gender
- 10:05 Gary J. Bass: Japan's WW2 crimes on trial
- 10:35 Finding the funny side of cancer: Emma Lange
- 11:05 Putting insomnia to bed: Dr Alexander Sweetman
- 11:35 Not pie in the sky: Tanemahuta Gray
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Listener feedback
Saturday, 10 February 2024
- 8:10 Chris Packham: fighting for the wild
- 9:05 South Korean beauty culture and the costs of perfection
- 9:35 Arturo Bejar: Meta whistleblower
- 10:05 Bee Wilson: The Secret of Cooking
- 10:40 Organic gardener Kath Irvine: all you need is compost
- 11:05 Playing favourites with Sir Collin Tukuitonga
Saturday, 3 February 2024
- 8:10 Koala conservationist Rebecca Johnson
- 8:35 EVs: can the voltage keep up with the mileage?
- 8:45 World champion axeman Adam Lowe
- 9:05 Patricia Grace: Bird Child
- 9:30 Ros Atkins: The Art of Explanation
- 10:05 Australian of the Year: Melanoma researcher Georgina Long
- 10:40 Boot Scootin' Boogie
- 11:00 Playing Favourites with Kiran Parbhu
Saturday, 27 January 2024
- 8:10 New Zealand photo archive up for auction
- 8:45 Alanna Smith: facial recognition to track turtles
- 9:05 Anne Michaels on her new novel Held
- 9:35 The BIG U - defending Manhattan from future floods
- 10:05 Aubrey Gordon: what life's like for 'Your Fat Friend'
- 10:35 Scott Silven and the wonders of magic
- 11:05 Dr Katie Mack: life, the universe and everything
- 11:50 Saturday morning listener feedback for 27 of January 2024
Saturday, 16 December 2023
- 8:10 Michael Cunningham on time, triangles and his new novel Day
- 9:05 Ruth Shaw: Wee bookshops and huge love for dogs
- 9:20 Takács Quartet violinist Edward Dusinberre
- 9:45 Organic gardener Kath Irvine: How to grow tomatoes
- 10:05 Playing Favourites with Anika Moa
- 11:05 Best books with Kate De Goldi and Elizabeth Knox
- 11:45 Talking turkey with Josh Emett
- 4:15 Graham Leonard: The faultlines that shape and shake New Zealand
Saturday, 9 December 2023
- 8:10 Ranulph Fiennes: Lawrence of Arabia
- 9:05 Leo Vardiashvili - Hard by a Great Forest
- 9:29 Unsupported and isolated: living and dying with ME/CFS
- 10:06 Kera Sherwood-O'Regan: top woman
- 10:35 Simon Denny: Optimism and the race to space
- 11:05 Tusiata Avia's Big Fat Brown Bitch: 'I was bloody rarked up'
- 11:45 Raising a glass to Sauvignon Blanc: Bill Spence
Saturday, 2 December 2023
- 8:12 Andy Mitchell: an insider's guide to psychedelics
- 9:08 Linda Bryder: the best country to give birth?
- 9:50 Danyl McLauchlan: an argument for eco-terrorism
- 10:09 Greg Sestero on friendship, creativity and why The Room is so fun to watch
- 10:50 Richard Jackson: Does NZ really need its defence force?
- 11:08 Elinor Karlsson: Darwin’s Dogs and DNA
- 11:40 Sam and Ellie Studd: How to love cheese
Saturday, 25 November 2023
- 8:10 Michael Rosen: Getting over it, and getting through it
- 8:50 The coalition government and the Treaty
- 9:05 Adrian Edmondson: 'The more you hurt yourself, the more people laugh'
- 9:30 Richard Flanagan: chain reactions
- 10:05 Tim Minchin: Seriously funny
- 10:30 Gary McCormick: Karaoke, Kim and me
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Kim Hill
- 11:45 Kim and Hannah
- 11:55 Listener feedback 25 November 2023
Saturday, 18 November 2023
- 8:10 Who killed the Crewes? Opening the book on a cold case
- 8:50 Gregory De Pascale: Iceland on edge, waiting for eruption
- 9:05 Kashmir Hill: facial recognition software and the end of privacy
- 9:35 Amanda Smith Barusch: embracing the rage that comes with age
- 10:00 Richard O'Rawe: In the Name of the Son
- 10:30 Dr Max Berry: the huge job of looking after tiny babies
- 11:00 Playing Favourites with Oscar Kightley
- 11:59 Saturday listener feedback
