All episodes
Saturday, 12 July 2025
- 7:07 Weather update from Nelson Tasman
- 7:13 Overview from the Metservice
- 7:20 Latest from the Ukraine and Russia
- 7:30 Nurses vote to strike
- 7:36 Royal Commission into Covid-19 response
- 7:43 Using toxic fungus to fight cancer
- 7:50 On the court and on the track - Wimbledon and F1
- 8:10 Amelia Kerr: a role model beyond the wicket
- 8:30 Fatal Watch: Tim McKinnel and Bubba Cook on the dark underbelly of tuna fishing
- 8:50 NZ Youth Choir conquers Europe
- 9:10 Dame Fiona Kidman on how she became 'the girl who wrote'
- 9:43 Re-landscaping NZ farms for future generations
- 10:07 Chelsea Winstanley: TOITU Visual Sovereignty
- 10:32 Chasing Pacific Fire - Waka Lab
- 11:05 Stacy Gregg - The Last Journey
- 11:25 Kate de Goldi: Reading for Pleasure
- 11:45 Celebrating the DIVA
Saturday, 5 July 2025
- 7:07 Weather woes: Tasman mayor on the cleanup
- 7:13 Weekly wrap: Israel - Gaza conflict
- 7:21 Commonwealth Poet Laureate - Selina Tusitala Marsh
- 7:35 Turning plastic into paracetamol
- 7:42 Sports wrap: All Blacks vs France
- 7:50 Wellington's Tattoo Convention
- 8:10 Chris Ramsay - professional puzzle solver and magic Olympian
- 8:35 Mighty Indeed - Life on the Ice
- 9:05 Delaney Davidson
- 9:35 A Voice for the Silenced
- 10:06 The forgotten 1948 scientific expedition to Arnhem Land
- 10:40 Why memory fails us
- 11:05 Bamboo School - caring for orphans next to a conflict zone
- 11:30 Mow to Meadow: letting it all go on the lawn
- 11:40 Hercules Noble 'Will it Sourdough?
Saturday, 28 June 2025
- 7:11 Heavy rain and snow for the south
- 7:15 The Israel-Iran conflict
- 7:32 Ngāpuhi settlement: 'Our people are pretty hōhā'
- 7:46 Intellectually disabled twice as likely to live in hardship
- 8:11 Rebecca Solnit: the long and winding road
- 8:36 Remembering Takutai Tarsh Kemp
- 8:46 Do natural remedies actually work?
- 9:09 Looting the temples: a story of crime and redemption
- 9:36 Endeavour discovery confirmed
- 9:47 Georgie Falloon: Big Shoes to Fill
- 10:06 Alice Austen: 33 Place Brugmann
- 10:40 Nadine Hura: finding the words to talk about climate change
- 11:06 The highs and lows of driving with a disability
- 11:35 Secrets, surprises and the supernatural in new series
- 11:49 New Westland heritage-based "Legendary Coasters" app
Saturday, 21 June 2025
- 7:11 Israel and Iran conflict
- 7:21 US role in the Israel-Iran conflict
- 7:28 The NZ-Cook Islands fallout
- 7:36 Luxon's China trip
- 7:47 Taranaki high school has surplus with $4 school lunches
- 7:53 The Māori New Year
- 8:11 Why times speeds up as we age - and how to slow it down
- 8:35 Improving the lives of horses and pet animals - Natalie Waran OBE
- 9:05 Sharon Van Etten: solo to jamming
- 9:30 The 21-year-old gearing up for a bellringing marathon
- 9:45 Photographer Kirsten Lewis shows the messy reality of parenting
- 10:05 Lynne Olson - resistance at Ravensbrück
- 10:35 Approaching life-changing diagnosis for "missing millions" with ME/CFS
- 11:06 Mother of Chooks: Jesse Leaman on his tender chicken documentary
- 11:25 Northland Champion Gerry Paul - Brew of Islands Festival
- 11:45 Winter Gardening with Hannah Zwartz
Saturday, 14 June 2025
- 7:10 Israel and Iran strikes
- 7:21 Israeli ministers banned
- 7:30 Gumboots and announcements at Fieldays
- 7:38 LA protests after immigration crackdown
- 7:44 Educating the Asian community on mental health
- 7:50 Pet portraits for a good cause
- 8:11 Errol Morris: Separated
- 8:32 The great shower debate
- 8:45 GDP predictions with Liam Dann
- 9:06 Ian Urbina: The Outlaw Ocean
- 9:35 Issa Amro: Youth Against Settlements
- 10:06 Kate Summerscale The Peepshow
- 10:40 Do we need more fat in our diets?
- 11:05 Witi Ihimaera - reclaiming his reo at 80
- 11:38 What makes a flourishing life?
Saturday, 7 June 2025
- 7:06 The longest suspension in Parliament ever
- 7:20 Collecting the stories on the ground in Ukraine
- 7:30 Triple murder accused takes stand in poisonous mushroom trial
- 7:35 Exercise reduces risk cancer patients dying by third - study
- 7:40 The pressure of home premiums
- 7:50 3D animal scanning app up for award at Fieldays
- 8:11 Unmanned military tech: Julia Macdonald
- 8:35 Trump vs Musk - what's going on?
- 8:50 Auckland's Cabaret Festival: Songs from the Factory
- 9:06 John Boyne: overcoming trauma to be a better parent
- 9:35 Astrophysicist Dr Michelle Thaller
- 10:10 Bret McKenzie: Minecraft and music
- 10:30 Rob Sarkies: Pike River
- 11:06 Michelle Duff: Surplus Women
- 11:30 Reading for pleasure with Kate de Goldi
- 11:45 Ben Bayly: What is New Zealand food?
Saturday, 31 May 2025
- 7:10 Deputy Prime Minister handover
- 7:21 Urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry into the removal of the Maori
- 7:31 Digging into the 'white genocide' claims in South Africa
- 7:42 Samoa's political turmoil
- 7:50 Photographing life around Ōpōtiki
- 8:11 Proto: an ancient language, mother to many tongues
- 8:40 Māori and Pasifika art takes the MET
- 9:08 Digital Twin: Liann Zhang, Julie Chan is Dead
- 9:32 Living next to an active volcano
- 9:48 More than hockey - Ruamata
- 10:07 Grace Curtis: The Best is Yet to Come
- 10:38 The fight for clean air in NZ schools
- 11:06 Playing Favourites with Cameron Bennett
Saturday, 24 May 2025
- 7:11 Breaking down the Budget with Max Rashbrooke
- 7:20 Pay equity claims binned to make numbers work?
- 7:26 Increasing tensions between international community and Israel over Gaza
- 7:35 Tauranga drone company wins big at tech awards
- 7:40 The battle for Auckland's Western Springs Stadium
- 7:51 Using waiata as a point of connection and learning
- 8:11 Keith Scholey: 44 years working with David Attenborough
- 8:35 Tuki Laumea: battle for influence in the Pacific
- 9:06 Susanna Clarke: coming back from a vanishing act
- 9:25 Holly Arrowsmith wins Best Country Music Song
- 9:43 From cops to bookshops, and cosy crime
- 10:06 Raynor Winn: The Salt Path
- 10:10 This Compulsion in Us - Tina Makereti
- 10:45 Overtourism: ruining it for everyone
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Roger Hall
Saturday, 17 May 2025
- 7:10 'It's fascism': Lady Tureiti Moxon blasts Regulatory Standards Bill
- 7:20 BBC's Sebastian Usher wraps up Trumps Middle East trip
- 7:35 Government pumps money into film rebate scheme
- 7:45 The economic benefits of clean air in schools
- 7:50 When can we say we've found life on other planets?
- 8:10 The age-old question: cracking the code of waning immunity
- 8:35 Soft materials mending hardened criminals
- 9:06 The treadmill of tyranny: Marcel Dirsus
- 9:35 Axolotls lending a hand to human limb regeneration
- 10:05 Ian Rankin: at the forefront of crime-writing
- 10:35 Grow your own 'Forage Garden' with Hannah Zwartz
- 11:05 Black Faggot: just as relevant today
- 11:35 Transforming the lives of people with dementia
Saturday, 10 May 2025
- 7:11 The Waitangi Tribunal review
- 7:19 Escalating conflict between India and Pakistan
- 7:25 Fighting for pay equity
- 7:35 The ethical issues for donor conceived people
- 7:44 Banning social media for under 16s
- 7:50 Taking a look at taonga
- 8:10 Motorbikes and towers: Elspeth Beard
- 8:35 Sorrow for the Sámi: Elin Anna Labba
- 9:05 Campbell Walker aka Struthless
- 9:36 Couple's journey from 'disaster' hemp to award-winning soil mix
- 9:46 Tama Toki: Bringing the energy to Great Barrier Island
- 10:05 Prime Minister's Science Prize Winners
- 10:40 Diana Prazac: Going pound for pound with the doubters
- 11:05 Catherine Chidgey: The Book of Guilt
- 11:35 Altruism: How a simple hot chocolate can change your life
- 11:50 Kiwis on the move to Nelson
Saturday, 3 May 2025
- 7:11 Election Day in Australia
- 7:17 The big wet weather mop up
- 7:21 The latest from Gaza
- 7:32 Changes to KiwiSaver?
- 7:42 Tackling caulerpa in Te Tai Tokerau
- 7:51 The speech competition aiming to improve race relations
- 8:11 The name's Rimington. Stella Rimington
- 8:40 What is inattentional blindness?
- 9:06 Choir Games captured on film: Leanne Pooley
- 9:32 What have we learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic?
- 10:06 Trans writer Torrey Peters on provocative new novel Stag Dance
- 10:35 Outgoing Wellington mayor Tory Whanau: 'Politics has become an ugly place'
- 11:06 Yael Van Der Wouden: debuting at the Bookers
- 11:35 Opening Night! A new era for Otautahi's Court Theatre
- 11:45 Kate de Goldi's favourite winter reads
Saturday, 26 April 2025
- 7:11 Manuel Beazely on the Pope's funeral
- 7:19 Olivia Podmore's parents on the inquest
- 7:31 The Waitākere Ranges Heritage Area Act - what's next?
- 7:45 The link between eye health and dementia
- 7:54 Sports with Mathew Nash: will Auckland FC make history?
- 8:10 Controlled mess with celebrated illustrator Sydney Smith
- 8:40 The ethics of donating sperm
- 9:06 Mary Kisler: Dad's post-war trauma
- 9:35 The Tibbles: celebrating a hero
- 9:45 Noel Hyde: the native barn owl
- 10:06 Space weather: Graham Leonard
- 10:30 Comedian Anisa Nandaula
- 10:40 Men raising good boys
- 11:10 Playing favourites with Tina Cross
Saturday, 19 April 2025
- 7:10 Weather Watch
- 7:15 Peace talks stall
- 7:20 Latest from the Middle East
- 7:25 Women defined in the UK
- 7:33 New cellphone buyers beware
- 7:40 Feed a fam for $5
- 7:45 Remembering our nurses
- 7:55 Making poppies
- 8:10 Thomas Perls: life over 100
- 8:30 Abdulrazak Gurnah Theft
- 9:05 Stephen Wainwright, reflecting on the arts
- 9:40 GIVE WAY! Steven Page and Dave Armstrong
- 10:05 Kiwi on Broadway: Hayden Tee
- 10:20 She Speaks! Harriet Walter
- 11:06 From dancer to dean - Katie Lawrence
- 11:35 Liam Dann: inflation, tariffs and your KiwiSaver
- 11:51 Triple word score: Scrabble Masters Champs
Saturday, 12 April 2025
- 7:12 The end of the Treaty Principles bill?
- 7:22 Tariff showdown: US vs China
- 7:32 Defence spending boost: How far will it go?
- 7:41 Changing up the Emissions Trading Scheme
- 7:50 The positives of AI according to the PSA
- 7:55 Picking your own dahlias
- 8:10 Harlan Coben: reading for empathy
- 8:35 Father Flavie: standing up to Duterte
- 9:05 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Dream Count
- 9:35 Ken Ludwig: adapting a legend and why Shakespeare is essential
- 10:05 Creating comedy out of cancer
- 10:33 Adolescence: the manosphere explained
- 11:05 Endometriosis: closing the gender pain gap
- 11:30 Identity Dance Company
- 11:45 Compost and winter planting with Hannah Zwartz
Saturday, 5 April 2025
- 7:11 What next for the Treaty Principles Bill?
- 7:20 Ukraine war: BBC's Frank Gardner
- 7:32 US tariffs and what that means for NZ
- 7:41 More funding for gold standard diabetes tech
- 7:50 Kiwis shine at the World Butchers' Challenge
- 8:11 Pronatalism - the argument for lots of babies
- 8:35 The surprising history of electric cars
- 9:06 A. C. Grayling: defending wokeism
- 9:40 Theo Shakes - united by mums
- 10:05 Wild botanicals with Monique Fiso
- 10:30 50 years framing-up Aotearoa
- 10:52 Live from Polyfest
- 11:10 Marlon Williams - between two worlds
- 11:25 Paris Marx: 'decoupling' from US tech giants
- 11:45 Kate de Goldi: Reading for Pleasure
Saturday, 29 March 2025
- 7:10 Sea trawling exacerbating climate change
- 7:20 Australian volunteer medic in Gaza details humanitarian need
- 7:30 Ngati Haua signs settlement with Crown
- 7:37 Myanmar quake: BBC's Lindle Markwell reports
- 7:49 Post-natal care bill 'very odd', midwives say
- 8:11 Sue Black: saving Bletchley & promoting women in tech
- 8:29 Former All White on football's moment in NZ
- 8:40 Itchy research - the chemicals in your home triggering eczema
- 9:06 No Words For This: Ali Mau
- 9:35 Debut success - The Ministry of Time
- 10:06 Being an adult with ADHD
- 10:30 After The Party's BAFTA nomination
- 10:45 Earthquake resilience with Graham Leonard
- 11:06 Toitu Te Whenua: Places and People of the New Zealand Wars
- 11:30 The Stolen Children of Aotearoa
- 11:45 Polyfest pioneer - 50 years on
Saturday, 22 March 2025
- 7:11 Questions asked over Heathrow Airport shutdown
- 7:16 Drought in the Central North Island
- 7:24 Two-month truce in Gaza shattered
- 7:34 New Zealander of the Year Bev Lawton
- 7:44 Catching Covid in hospitals
- 7:52 The debate about under 18s rugby
- 8:11 Bob Geldof: 50 years on
- 8:40 Investigating the sounds in your head
- 9:06 Growing kai sovereignty
- 9:26 Channel finished to release tuna/eels
- 9:37 The rise of deepfake pornography
- 10:06 Laila Lalami: The Dream Hotel
- 10:35 High-country high fashion
- 11:05 Five years on: where are the animals now? Dr Laura Jean McKay
- 11:20 Kulaiwi Hawaiian performance
- 11:38 Why hybrid work is better
Saturday, 15 March 2025
- 7:08 Six years since Christchurch mosque attacks
- 7:20 Ukraine war: Will the ceasefire go through?
- 7:30 Māori business on the big stage at summit
- 7:38 The PM in India
- 7:46 Making recyclable silicone using sulphur
- 7:51 Liam Dann: Trade Wars, investment and misery
- 7:53 Suzanne Porter: Putting together Womad
- 8:11 Mapping out Long Covid on the body
- 8:45 Womad: 47 SOUL
- 9:06 Polyamory for Dummies
- 9:30 Dr Simon Talbot: Campaigning for moral injury change
- 9:45 WOMAD: Queen Omega
- 10:05 Jojo Moyes: 'Chick lit' is a misogynist label for my books
- 10:38 WOMAD: Nitin Sawhney
- 11:05 WOMAD: Jordyn with a Why
- 11:20 Talented farmer changing narratives for ex-prisoners
- 11:35 Liam Lawson at the Melbourne Grand Prix
- 11:40 WOMAD: Talisk
Saturday, 8 March 2025
- 7:10 Cyclone Alfred makes landfall
- 7:15 Hamas rejects Trumps threats over hostages
- 7:24 School lunches and potential further cuts
- 7:32 The latest on Ukraine
- 7:43 The Gene Technology Bill
- 7:49 Waka 'most important' find of all time in New Zealand
- 8:11 Nigel Marchant: Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
- 8:37 Andrew Darby's ancient tree odyssey
- 9:08 Ruby Wax: finding the funny side
- 9:39 Russia will get what it wants: Oval Office fallout
- 9:53 Live from the Pasifika Festival
- 10:06 The Beths - how to survive a music festival
- 10:30 Malia Johnston: A performance of air
- 10:45 Autumn gardening with Hannah Zwartz
- 11:05 Carla Houkamau and Robert Pouwhare
- 11:25 Scottish Ballet: pirouetting to NZ
- 11:45 Mr Meatballs - Michael Dearth
Saturday, 1 March 2025
- 7:11 Trump accuses Zelensky of 'gambling with World War 3'
- 7:17 Waipoua blaze: Up to 100 firefighters on the ground
- 7:22 South Africa feeling brunt of 'America First' approach
- 7:33 Study finds link between ADHD and paracetamol in pregnancy
- 7:39 Menopause advocate calls for awareness
- 7:56 Manu World Champs: Splashing to victory
- 8:11 Boot camps: learning from America's incarcerated youth
- 8:35 The discovery of a feminist Iron Age society
- 9:06 NZ's growing ties with South Korea
- 9:15 Maggie Beer: Serve them well
- 9:35 Róisín Owens: The brain-gut connection
- 10:05 Lynne Peeples: Resetting the Body Clock
- 10:30 In Sir Ed's Vertical Footsteps: Alexander Hillary
- 11:05 How to be Wrong: a crash course in startup success
- 11:30 Wildfoods Festival serving up snails, locusts and huhu grubs
- 11:45 Te Matatini finals
Saturday, 22 February 2025
- 7:10 Nanaia Mahuta: The three Chinese warships
- 7:20 Philip Crowther in Kyiv
- 7:32 The inquiry into Manurewa Marae
- 7:42 The nationwide survey for Motor Neurone Disease
- 7:50 Cycling for the Smear your Mea campaign
- 8:10 Are cleanliness products body shaming?
- 8:35 Te Hira Paenga: Matatini judge
- 9:06 Dr. Paul Meighan-Chiblow: Colonialingualism
- 9:35 Melissa Hogenboom: the hidden digital workload impacting mums
- 10:06 Japanese Breakfast front woman Michelle Zauner
- 10:35 Smitha Vishveshwara on quantum physics
- 11:05 Miki Magasiva: Tinā
- 11:25 Graham Leonard on landslides
- 11:40 Miriam Margolyes in New Zealand
Saturday, 15 February 2025
- 7:18 Caleb Fortheringham: Cook Islands
- 7:19 David Smith: Gaza and Israel
- 7:34 Nándor Tánczos: Whakatane Hospital Protest
- 7:40 Sean Simpson: Gene Technology
- 8:10 Ben Elton: Authentic Stupidity
- 8:40 Built to fail? The right to repair
- 8:52 The thousand year old instrument closing out the new lunar year
- 9:05 Silencing your inner-critic
- 9:32 Tackling cancer: Kjesten Wiig
- 10:08 Condiment Claire gets saucy
- 10:30 An accidental activist: Panti Bliss
- 11:05 Jacinta Ruru: Books of Mana
- 11:35 The White Lotus blooms again: Morgana O'Reilly
- 11:47 Kate De Goldi: Reading for pleasure
Saturday, 8 February 2025
- 7:11 50 years of Treaty Settlements - where are we now?
- 7:25 The fallout of Trump's controversial Gaza plan
- 7:32 Diet and Parkinson's disease
- 7:37 Kiwi scientist at the heart of the UK's serial killer case
- 7:42 TikTok: Security concern or victim of geopolitics?
- 7:49 Te Tii Marae reopens
- 8:11 Are NZ designs open to being ripped off?
- 8:40 Demystifying geothermal energy
- 8:50 Off leash - dog trainer Flip Calkoen
- 9:06 Bad to the bone: George Thorogood
- 9:30 A moneyless Life: Jo Nemeth
- 9:45 Tariffs, growth and unemployment: Liam Dann
- 10:06 Dr Julie Smith - rewriting life advice when facing death
- 10:40 Brynley Stent's singles road trip
- 11:06 Saving the planet and your money at the same time
- 11:35 Geoff Parkes - from Rugby to Rural Noir
Saturday, 1 February 2025
- 7:11 Marama Davidson back in politics
- 7:21 The latest from Gaza and Israel
- 7:32 Resurgence of rickets
- 7:40 Politics look ahead with Jo Moir
- 7:53 'Sit in' protest at Wellington's Begonia House
- 8:11 Living in harmony with Te Tiriti - Dayle Takitimu
- 8:35 Jennifer Tierney: Helping where help is needed most
- 9:06 The science of pheromones, smell and attraction
- 9:35 The Night Agent's Luciane Buchanan
- 10:06 Bowled over - Rachin Ravindra
- 10:40 Growing a veggie garden from scratch: Kath Irvine
- 11:06 Bella Kalolo – Playing Favourites
Saturday, 21 December 2024
- 7:10 Aftermath of Vanuatu earthquake
- 7:19 Conflict continues in the Middle East
- 7:30 Freedom camping evictions
- 7:39 The year in politics
- 7:50 Waitangi snub
- 8:10 David Baldacci: Thrilling with thrillers
- 8:40 David Robson: Avoid being a toxic friend
- 9:06 Becky Manawatu: Kataraina
- 9:30 National Poisons Centre turns 60
- 9:45 Quiz master Laura McGoldrick
- 10:10 What's on the box - Diana Wichtel
- 10:35 Merenia Gray: Tiahuia - a Karanga for My Mother
- 11:05 The dos and don'ts of summer gardening
- 11:25 Kate de Goldi: Summer reading
- 11:47 Christmas classics with Antonia Bennett