Saturday Morning Podcast Options

11:05 AM.Literary festival director and music aficionado Kiran Dass plays some favourite tunes and shares what it's like running WORD Christchurch. Read more Audio

10:50 AM.A group from the Lake Ōmāpere Trust in the Far North led by 93-year-old kuia Ani Martin, will present their plan for restoring its ecological health at the World Lake Conference.   Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Auckland is known for its volcanic cones - and while an eruption is very unlikely to happen, the volcanic field is technically still active. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Three deaf couples navigate love, parenting, and identity in the deeply personal documentary A Quiet Love - their stories all told in Irish Sign Language.  Read more Audio

9:47 AM.Space may be the final frontier, but it is also an increasingly viable one for New Zealand as our scientists partner with NASA to engage in mutually beneficial research.  Read more Audio

9:25 AM."Can you ever really know your kids?" That's the question at the heart of Sameer Pandya's new novel Our Beautiful Boys.  Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Chicago is coming to Auckland with its celebrity cocktail of murder, media and music.  Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Excavators have begun work at St. Mary's Mother-and-Baby Home in Tuam where unmarried pregnant women were sent to give birth from 1925 to 1961.  Read more Audio

8:11 AM.Emojis are the world's newest language - but where did they come from, where are they going, and what do they mean?  Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Tauranga based Trimax Mowing Systems is Exporter of the Year for the Bay of Plenty. Their designs are used on PGA golf courses and even at Windsor Castle! Read more Audio

7:45 AM.It's Wills Week and a Taupo mum and her 13-year-old son have created a list of wishes to help families have those difficult conversations before it's too late. Read more Audio

7:34 AM.One of New Zealand's oldest European artifacts, an anchor from a French ship, has been found in Doubtless Bay. Its captain's actions are another story. Read more Audio

7:26 AM.A week on from last week's devastating storm and locals in Nelson Tasman are still cleaning up and beginning to count the cost.  Read more Audio

7:19 AM. On the ground in Gaza, Médecins Sans Frontières - Doctors Without Borders, describes the situation as "human carnage". Read more Audio

7:12 AM.Education Minister Erica Stanford has said after years of government flip-flops it will now only build single-cell classrooms.  Read more Audio

11:45 AM. Auckland Museum's DIVA exhibition explores some of the world's best-known divas; from opera goddesses to Hollywood legends and today's global megastars.  Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

11:25 AM.Kate de Goldi reviews Under a Fire-Red Sky by Geraldine McCaughrean; Homework by Geoff Dyer; and Broadsword Calling Danny Boy by Geoff Dyer. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.International bestselling author for middle-grade readers Stacy Gregg's latest book The Last Journey was inspired by the Auckland Anniversary weekend floods. Read more Audio

10:32 AM.Dr Ian Schipper has combined state of the art tools with a traditional double-hulled waka to reach remote and under-studied active volcanoes.  Read more Audio, Gallery

10:07 AM. Award winner Chelsea Winstanley on how her documentary about an Auckland Art Gallery exhibition put her at the centre of a modern day stand for sovereignty.  Read more Audio

9:43 AM.John Burke and his family have taken what was considered the most environmentally degraded farm in the Western Bay of Plenty and turned it into an award-winning environmental farm.  Read more Audio

9:10 AM.The life and literary legacy of Aotearoa's internationally acclaimed writer Dame Fiona Kidman has been captured in the documentary: The House Within.  Read more Audio

8:50 AM.The NZ Youth Choir took out top honours at the Grand Prix of Nations at the European Choir Games in Aarhus, Denmark.  Read more Audio

8:30 AM.Fatal Watch is an investigation into the global trade in tuna and the deaths of several fisheries observers who were monitoring for illegal fishing.  Read more Audio

8:10 AM.At the height of her cricket career, White Fern Amelia Kerr called time out and opened up about her struggles with mental health.  Read more Audio