Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:05 AM.New Zealand's most produced playwright and still writing at 85, the legendary Roger Hall's work is back on stage this June. The Auckland Theatre Company is presenting End of a Summer Time, an ode to… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.The OE is considered a rite of passage for many, and Instagram boasts all the hot spots. But many locals are feeling squeezed out.  Read more Audio

10:10 AM.Award-winning novelist Tina Makereti has written her first nonfiction book. A collection of essays, This Compulsion In Us brings Tina's perspective as wahine Maori - that of a teacher, daughter… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.What do you do when you lose everything? After being forcibly removed from their home, for Raynor Winn and her husband Moth, the answer was to set off on a 630-mile trek along the rugged Cornish… Read more Audio

9:43 AM.New Zealand adds to the cosy crime genre with Gareth and Louise Ward's The Bookshop Detectives. Read more Audio

9:25 AM.Last night the APRA Country Music Honours were held in Gore, bringing the country's - best country crooners under one roof.  Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Booker Prize long-listed English author Susanna Clarke is one of the most influential fantasy writers of our time.  Read more Audio

8:35 AM.A new docuseries investigates the escalating power struggle between China and the US in the Pacific, climate displacement and colonial unrest. Read more Video, Audio

8:11 AM.Over the past 100 years, oceans have progressed from being a complete mystery to being regarded as vital for our survival, according to Sir David Attenborough. Keith Scholey is an Emmy and Bafta… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

7:51 AM.After organising the world's largest haka last year and reclaiming the Guinness World Record, Dame Hinewehi Mohi is back - with the first ever Waiata Singalong series. Read more Audio

7:40 AM.The battle for Auckland's Western Springs Stadium - the home of the Ponsonby Rugby Club - is heating up with two former All Blacks on either side of the debate. Mihi speaks to Sir Bryan and Ashley… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Tauranga based drone manufacturer Syos Aerospace won the top prize at the Hi-Tech Awards last night in Wellington. The company makes uncrewed vehicles for land, sea and air and recently won a big UK… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.International pressure has ramped up this week on Israel - to end its aid blockade on Gaza - and stop its military offensive. Rory Challands is an international news correspondent based in London and… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.The government has been accused of taking money out of women's pockets - to make its Budget work. The Prime Minister has previously disputed this suggestion, saying changes to pay equity is about… Read more Audio

7:11 AM.This week the budget dominated the news with Finance Minister Nicola Willis promising no frills after cutting new spending nearly in half. Max Rashbrooke is a senior research fellow in the School of… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Professor Vincent Mor is a world-leader in research into the needs of older people who has been working tirelessly to change the way we care for older adults and people with dementia.  Read more Audio

11:05 AM.One of Aotearoa's most daring and decorated playwrights, Victor Rodger's award-winning 2013 play Black Faggot is back at the Court Theatre. More than a decade on, the play remains painfully relevant.

10:35 AM.So you like the idea of gardening but can't bring yourself to spend hours toiling away in the outdoors, making a self-sowing 'Forage Garden' might be the answer.  Read more Audio

10:05 AM.The recipient of a Diamond Dagger award, which recognises outstanding lifetime achievement in crime fiction, Ian Rankin is unparalleled in his field. The Scottish crime writer and philanthropist, best… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.While millions of people are living with the consequences of limb amputation due to injury or disease, axolotl salamanders can replace entire lost limbs. Read more Audio

9:06 AM.Is tyranny the default of human existence? Strongmen are rising. Democracies are faltering. But how does tyranny end? Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Prisoners in a level 5 maximum security prison in Missouri are the subject of a new and award-winning short documentary out on Netflix this week. The Quilters follows a group of men inside the South… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Immunologist Dr Michelle Linterman is a Program leader at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research.  Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Last month, scientists from Cambridge University found compounds that are considered hallmarks of life, in the atmosphere of a planet about 124 light years away from Earth. But that finding has been… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.A randomised study of air quality in primary schools in Milan has revealed that adding air purifiers to classrooms not only reduced children's exposure to air pollution, but increased students'… Read more Audio