Saturday Morning Podcast Options

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

7:35 AM.Just yesterday Finance Minister Nicola Willis pledged $577 million dollars to support film and TV production. That will boost funding of the rebate scheme to just over $9 billion.  Read more Audio

7:20 AM.US president Donald Trump has been in the Middle East this week - visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The BBC's Middle East Editor Sebastian Usher wraps up the trip. Read more Audio

7:10 AM.Late on Friday the Waitangi Tribunal released its interim report into the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill. Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Tomorrow a new batch of Kiwi will be moved from Kapiti Island to their new home at the Brook Waimarama Sancutary in Nelson.  Read more Audio

11:35 AM.What is altruism? And is there a particular personality type that naturally delivers acts of kindness to others? Award-winning health and science journalist Nicole Karlis looks at the type of people… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Catherine Chidgey is one of New Zealand's best known and internationally critically acclaimed novelists. She has won pretty much every prize going. Her ninth novel The Book of Guilt is just out.  Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Retired Australian professional boxer Diana Prazak stepped into a boxing ring for the first time age 27, having been told she'd never make it, and to forget boxing as a career.  Read more Audio

10:05 AM.Dr Linda Johnson and her team from AgResearch have been awarded Te Puiaki Putaiao Matua a Te Pirimia, the Prime Minister's Science Prize.  Read more Audio

9:46 AM.Entrepreneur Tama Toki's new venture Aotea Energy is solar energy project for rural communities on Aotea/Great Barrier Island.  Read more Video, Audio

9:36 AM.A next-generation living soil developed by a husband and wife in their Taranaki backyard has been named Germany's Garden Product of the Year.  Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Illustrator, best-selling author and mental health advocate Campbell Walker, better known as Struthless, has amassed over 50 million video views where he discusses mental health and creativity - and… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Elin Anna Labba's nonfiction book The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow, the forced displacement of the Northern Sámi blends history, memoir, poetry and images to depict a hard life and give voice to… Read more Audio